Games like Choppy Waters
If Choppy Waters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cave Crusade, The Hollow Alchemist and Pirates Outlaws — 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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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 Hollow Alchemist
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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.
A roguelike deckbuilder where alchemy fuels your cards, dice shape your fate, and sins whisper in your ear. Build your deck, forge your path, and decide what kind of soul you’ll become. All buffs react to one another as proper alchemy should do!
Pirates Outlaws
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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.
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.
My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
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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.
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!
Banners of Ruin
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Ranked #5 for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Choppy Waters.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
Dream of Corpse Lady
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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.
Cards, battle! Someone woke up the sleeping Corpse Lady... Perhaps, the world needs to pay a price for the awakening... In this game, you will play the role of the awakened Corpse Lady, try various strange construction combinations, discover powerful opponents, and then knock them all down!
Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure
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Ranked #7 for Choppy Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Choppy Waters.
A Victorian Steampunk Roguelite Deckbuilder. Choose from four characters with unique cards and abilities. Customize your deck and character as you investigate a mysterious plague. Battle corrupted beasts and bosses in turn-based combat to unlock powerful relics and enchanted tarot cards.
RogueJack21
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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.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
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?
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Choppy Waters.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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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 Hollow Alchemist, Pirates Outlaws.
- Who developed Choppy Waters?
- Choppy Waters was developed by Plank Games.
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