Games like Where's the Boat
If Where's the Boat is your kind of game, the closest matches are the ISLE survival, Shuttle World and Profectus — 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 Where's the Boat: Where's the Boat is a sandbox open world survival crafting game set on an archipelago of deserted islands. Gather resources, craft tools, tend to your needs and travel from island to island in search for a way back to civilization.
Players who liked Where's the Boat also play
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the ISLE survival
WHY THIS
Top pick for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
The ISLE survival is a vast open world survival / crafting game. Loot resources, craft items, build camps and explore the environment. Protect yourself from hazards and wildlife. Find ways to survive in hostile living conditions.
Shuttle World
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Where's the Boat.
Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...
Profectus
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.
Archipelago: Island Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
Survival simulator on an archipelago of islands. Sandbox with a huge open world. Over 300 different items and resources, over 100 different enemies and NPCs. Elements of trade and RPG.
Saleblazers
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Ranked #5 for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Under A New Sun
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Ranked #6 for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
KeepUp Survival
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Ranked #7 for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Survive on Raft
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Where's the Boat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where's the Boat.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Where's the Boat at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where's the Boat.
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 ~58% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Where's the Boat.
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 ~42% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Where's the Boat.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Where's the Boat.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where's the Boat.
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
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Priced ~58% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Where's the Boat.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Where's the Boat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where's the Boat.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Where's the Boat.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Where's the Boat.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Where's the Boat.
『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.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Where's the Boat.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
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Frequently asked about Where's the Boat
- How much does Where's the Boat cost?
- Where's the Boat is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Where's the Boat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Where's the Boat are the ISLE survival, Shuttle World, Profectus.
- Who developed Where's the Boat?
- Where's the Boat was developed by KetaGames.
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 Where's the Boat.
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