Games like SHIPS AT WAR
If SHIPS AT WAR is your kind of game, the closest matches are Morse Depths: WWII, NavalArt and Silent Depth 2: Pacific — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ship building feels limitless, atmospheric and challenging. 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 SHIPS AT WAR: Sink player-made battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines in this physics-based game. Use pre-built ships and sink the enemy by deploying aircraft, torpedoes, depth charges or shells. Or built your own ships in the extensive ship-editor.
Players who liked SHIPS AT WAR also play
Steam players who put hours into SHIPS AT WAR 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.
Morse Depths: WWII
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Top pick for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
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.
NavalArt
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
Silent Depth 2: Pacific
WHY THIS
Shares torpedo targeting and an atmospheric mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Third-strongest match for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Silent Depth 2: Pacific is a lite sub-sim. You enter the Silent Service at the command of a Gato class submarine on War Patrols during World War 2. How long will you survive, and ultimately how much tonnage you sink is down to skill and cunning.
Boat Crew
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Shares a contemplative mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Ranked #4 for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Command your crew in Boat Crew, a gripping action-strategy experience amidst the Pacific War. Take charge of a PT boat against Imperial Japan, skillfully managing resources and personnel by any means necessary to ensure victory in this high-stakes conflict.
Sub Command
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Ranked #5 for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Take charge of the most deadly modern-day submarines in the world - three distinct submarines across two unique and challenging campaigns. Utilize cutting-edge sensor and weapon technology to locate, track and destroy the enemy - even deliver Tomahawk missiles to inland targets.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
WHY THIS
Shares ship design, naval combat and a contemplative mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Ranked #6 for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Crash Dive
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Shares a challenging mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Ranked #7 for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
WWII tactical submarine combat! Take command of a U-boat prowling the Atlantic in search of enemy convoys to sink. Sneak past the escorts and torpedo the transports. Or surface and use your deck gun in a daring night attack.
UBOAT
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Ranked #8 for SHIPS AT WAR fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.
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Sinking Simulator
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Reviewers of SHIPS AT WAR cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
The sequel to the unfinished Sinking Simulator, now with a lot more POWER!!!! Witness your witty love of chaos and destruction sinking 2D ships and everything else on board!
From the Depths
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Reviewers of SHIPS AT WAR cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail
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Shares an atmospheric mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Reviewers of SHIPS AT WAR cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail is a tactical wargame from the creators of the Ultimate General series set amidst the epic naval campaigns in the period of the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
WHY THIS
Shares ship design, naval combat and a contemplative mood with SHIPS AT WAR.
Reviewers of SHIPS AT WAR cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SHIPS AT WAR at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHIPS AT WAR.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with SHIPS AT WAR.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHIPS AT WAR.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Action with SHIPS AT WAR.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under SHIPS AT WAR on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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 with SHIPS AT WAR.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SHIPS AT WAR.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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!
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with SHIPS AT WAR.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Meteor 60 Seconds!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with SHIPS AT WAR.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
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Frequently asked about SHIPS AT WAR
- Does SHIPS AT WAR run on Steam Deck?
- SHIPS AT WAR is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does SHIPS AT WAR cost?
- SHIPS AT WAR is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SHIPS AT WAR?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SHIPS AT WAR are Morse Depths: WWII, NavalArt, Silent Depth 2: Pacific.
- Who developed SHIPS AT WAR?
- SHIPS AT WAR was developed by Golddorf Spieleentwicklung.
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