Games like Waves of Steel
If Waves of Steel is your kind of game, the closest matches are War Thunder, Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts and World of Warships: Legends — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its customizable difficulty, comedic and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Waves of Steel: If you like warships but wish they could kickflip, Waves of Steel is for you! Build your own custom warship and embark on a sprawling campaign filled with enemy ships, planes, submarines, and bizarre superweapons. Fast-paced arcade naval action is here!
Players who liked Waves of Steel also play
Steam players who put hours into Waves of Steel also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
War Thunder
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Top pick for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
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Second-strongest match for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
World of Warships: Legends
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization with Waves of Steel.
Third-strongest match for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Join this free-to-play PvP online naval shooter with fast-paced combat, easy-to-learn gameplay, intuitive controls, and cross-platform play on Steam, console, and mobile. Choose from 600+ warships and 150+ Commanders, and master tactics on diverse maps. Play now and become a legend!
Modern Warships
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Shares ship customization with Waves of Steel.
Ranked #4 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Modern Warships is an online action game about contemporary military vehicles. Join now and detect the enemy with recon aircraft, launch volleys of guided missiles from cruisers, sneak up to surface vessels with submarines, and provide cover to the allied fleet with jet fighters and helicopters.
Airships: Conquer the Skies
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Shares a whimsical mood with Waves of Steel.
Ranked #5 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Battlestations Pacific
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Shares mod support with Waves of Steel.
Ranked #6 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
Experience one war through two epic sagas where you will be a part of history or change it. Feel the power of the historically authentic and decisive battles of the Pacific War. Relive some of the grandest and most critical naval battles of recent history and for the first time, choose to lead your fleet to a completely different ending...
World of Warships
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Shares ship customization with Waves of Steel.
Ranked #7 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
Morse Depths: WWII
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Ranked #8 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Take command of a WWII submarine. Master Morse Code to fire torpedoes, defuse mines, and survive the final siege. From 1942 to 1945, every dot and dash is the difference between glory and the ocean floor.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Waves of Steel at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Waves
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
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Frequently asked about Waves of Steel
- Is Waves of Steel verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Waves of Steel is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Waves of Steel cost?
- Waves of Steel is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Waves of Steel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waves of Steel are War Thunder, Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, World of Warships: Legends.
- Who developed Waves of Steel?
- Waves of Steel was developed by TMA Games LLC.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Waves of Steel.
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