Games like Helm or High Water
If Helm or High Water is your kind of game, the closest matches are IronWolf VR, Pirates! Showdown: Enhanced Edition and Furious Seas — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Helm or High Water: Helm or High Water is a VR pirate ship combat game with asymmetrical local co-op. Put your sea legs to the test and work together with a friend to control all aspects of the ship from the helm and sails to the cannons and crew.
Players who liked Helm or High Water also play
Steam players who put hours into Helm or High Water 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.
IronWolf VR
WHY THIS
Top pick for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Helm or High Water.
IronWolf VR is a roomscale submarine game playable either singleplayer or online co-op with motion controls. Built from the ground up for VR, each part of the submarine has been crafted for an optimal VR experience.
Pirates! Showdown: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with Helm or High Water.
A fast-paced game combining real-time strategy and defense tactics. Face off against the fearsome Red Hand privateers in thrilling head-to-head pirate battles on the high sea! Capture towns, guard towers, and much more to strengthen your defense, buff up your ships, and increase your gold supply!
Furious Seas
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
Furious Seas puts you in command as captain of a deadly pirate ship. Navigate through treacherous waters and blast apart fearsome enemy fleets in this thrilling VR adventure like no other. Carve out your legend today amidst the Furious Seas.
Terror of the Seven Seas
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Ranked #4 for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Helm or High Water.
Become a Mighty Captain in a Age of sail naval combat game, set in all of the Seven Seas! Sail the entire world: conquering, boarding, plundering, exploring and trading along the way! Gather your crew, ready your ship, hoist your sails and enter a world of swashbuckling and piracy!
Fuel Cell
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Ranked #5 for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
Take the helm of your ship in a fully immersive VR experience. Use the periscope to detect enemies, measure their bearing and distance, then prepare your attack. Man the onboard artillery or launch torpedoes to engage hostile vessels. Each encounter rewards careful observation and precise execution.
Buccaneers!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
Become a fearless captain in Buccaneers!, a classic pirate RPG. Join a band of pirates or a naval power and fight for supremacy in the Caribbean. Build and customise your fleet to take on any foe and rewrite history!
Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale
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Ranked #7 for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Helm or High Water.
Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale tells the journey of a pirate captain with a lust for gold and glory who assumes command of a fleet of pirate ships to strike the Caribbean.
Feral Blue
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Ranked #8 for Helm or High Water fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
The old world has drowned after the Second Flood. Now, only few survivors are fighting for the new gold - clean water, wood and soil. Become a ship's captain, keep your crew alive and create your sea empire!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Helm or High Water at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Helm or High Water.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
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 Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Helm or High Water.
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 Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Helm or High Water.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Helm or High Water.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Helm or High Water on Steam right now. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Helm or High Water.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Helm or High Water.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
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!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
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.
THE FINALS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Helm or High Water.
THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
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Frequently asked about Helm or High Water
- How much does Helm or High Water cost?
- Helm or High Water is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Helm or High Water have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Helm or High Water supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Helm or High Water?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Helm or High Water are IronWolf VR, Pirates! Showdown: Enhanced Edition, Furious Seas.
- Who developed Helm or High Water?
- Helm or High Water was developed by Jordan Hobgood.
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 Helm or High Water.
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