Games like Pixel Piracy
If Pixel Piracy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Margoq's Lair, Captains of the Wacky Waters and Himno - The Silent Melody — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, funny and unsettling. 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 Pixel Piracy: Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.
Players who liked Pixel Piracy also play
Steam players who put hours into Pixel Piracy 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.
Margoq's Lair
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Traverse dark dungeons and face horrible foes in this roguelite twin-stick dungeon crawler where magic can be combined into devastating forces. Can you line up the perfect spell sequence to produce a powerful Meteor or a deadly Thunderstorm?
Captains of the Wacky Waters
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Sail across the Wacky Waters to reach Heaven alive. Loot, shoot and defeat other captains as you find more crew members and upgrade your ship with new cannons and crazy gadgets. Sink. Repeat.
Himno - The Silent Melody
WHY THIS
Shares survival elements and an unsettling mood with Pixel Piracy.
Third-strongest match for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Himno - The Silent Melody is an atmospheric roguelite action RPG. Explore different interconnected environments, gather materials to create your unique arsenal and build and automate your base.
Striving for Light
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.
Ampersat
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Pixel Piracy.
A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village!
Noita
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
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.
Overture
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!
Into the Necrovale
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pixel Piracy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another. You must be clever with your build if you hope to pierce the mysteries and dangers of the Necrovale, where a thousand generations of miscreants and criminals have been banished.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Pixel Piracy
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Seablip
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pixel Piracy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Go from humble beginnings to a feared pirate captain in this seafaring open-world adventure! Enhance your reputation as you take on bounties, upgrade your ship, hire a crew and search for treasure, or just go fishing instead!
Logic
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pixel Piracy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Logic is a 3D logical platform game, where you can get through the levels by solving several different puzzles with the help of moveable cubes, by switching buttons and pressure plates, and by using elevators and teleporting platforms.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pixel Piracy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pixel Piracy.
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 Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Piracy.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pixel Piracy.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pixel Piracy.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pixel Piracy.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Pixel Piracy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Piracy.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Himno - The Silent Melody
WHY THIS
Shares survival elements and an unsettling mood with Pixel Piracy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Himno - The Silent Melody is an atmospheric roguelite action RPG. Explore different interconnected environments, gather materials to create your unique arsenal and build and automate your base.
Striving for Light
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.
Noita
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Piracy.
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.
Frequently asked about Pixel Piracy
- How much does Pixel Piracy cost?
- Pixel Piracy is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pixel Piracy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pixel Piracy are Margoq's Lair, Captains of the Wacky Waters, Himno - The Silent Melody.
- Who developed Pixel Piracy?
- Pixel Piracy was developed by Vitali Kirpu.
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