Games like Choppy Waters
If Choppy Waters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cave Crusade, The Mice Plight and HOLOFLEET — 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 Choppy Waters: Sail through pirate-infested waters in this unconventional roguelike deckbuilder. Collect ingredients, craft your own sushi cards, and feed them to hungry pirates in tactical turn-based encounters. Combine active, passive, and reactive abilities to satisfy unruly customers and maximize profits.
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Steam players who put hours into Choppy Waters 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.
Cave Crusade
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Top pick for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
The Mice Plight
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Second-strongest match for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Escape a treacherous labyrinthine prison by outsmarting guards in tactical card-based battles. Pick your abilities before each encounter, tailoring your strategy. Defeat guards to steal their skills, navigate deadly traps, and unleash your cunning to secure your freedom.
HOLOFLEET
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Third-strongest match for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Battleship evolved into a holographic deckbuilder. Command 9 ship classes, play attack cards on an energy economy, level persistent commanders, and survive the roguelike Expedition. Find the fleet. Sink it.
Feltfall
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Ranked #4 for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Fluffy felt animals. A merciless time limit. Feltfall is a roguelite deckbuilder about pulling off a harvest festival on a tiny wool-felt island. Pick your route, gather materials, craft cards on the spot and crush every trouble in your way. Outlast the storm or strike first, then ride the festival's fever to the finish.
Pirates Outlaws
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Ranked #5 for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Black Jacket
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Ranked #6 for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
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Ranked #7 for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Become the coolest kid of the playground in this playful roguelike deckbuilder. Craft every card yourself with adorable stickers and wow your rivals in tug-of-war card battles full of wonder!
Wildfrost
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Ranked #8 for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Choppy Waters.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choppy Waters.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choppy Waters.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Choppy Waters.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Choppy Waters.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Choppy Waters.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pirates Outlaws
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Black Jacket
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Choppy Waters.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Frequently asked about Choppy Waters
- What games are most similar to Choppy Waters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Choppy Waters are Cave Crusade, The Mice Plight, HOLOFLEET.
- Who developed Choppy Waters?
- Choppy Waters was developed by Plank Games.
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 Choppy Waters.
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