Games like Matelotes
If Matelotes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Demolitors, Roguebound Pirates and Food Devils — 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 Matelotes: The Royal Hen has disappeared! Lead a group of enthusiastic (though unqualified) sailors on a quest for glory, riches, and, as fate would have it, poultry. Visit a variety of islands, resolve political conflicts, and upgrade your boat in this narrative adventure game inspired by RPGs.
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Demolitors
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Top pick for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Command powerful Demolitors, battle enemy machines with unique Insignias, upgrade each machine through its skill tree, unlock even stronger Insignias, and defeat formidable bosses.
Roguebound Pirates
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Second-strongest match for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Loot, upgrade & dominate! Your inventory IS your ship in this action roguelike. Customize weapons, create game-breaking synergies, and claim your place as the most overpowered pirate across the seas!
Food Devils
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Third-strongest match for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Matelotes.
You're the last chef in a post-apocalyptic world. Attract adventurers with monstrous food, make them sign contracts with the Food Devils and organize expeditions to collect wicked ingredients! Customize your characters, build the perfect restaurant and plan every move in this Tactics-RPG Roguelite.
Court Wizard
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Ranked #4 for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Cast spells, brew potions, and command defenders in this real-time strategy game. Choose from wildly different wizard archetypes, master spells with talent trees, and survive endless waves of attackers. Every wizard changes how you play. Can you defeat all of the bosses?
Marque & Reprisal
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Ranked #5 for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Explore. Trade. Fish. Whale. Colonize. Fight. Pillage. Survive. You are a sea captain in the year 1522, and the whole world is yours to discover in this roguelike sandbox historical sailing simulator.
Here Be Dragons
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Ranked #6 for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Here Be Dragons is a satirical turn-based strategy game featuring unique "living map" graphics, where you lead a group of crazed captains and eradicate legendary monsters in order to allow Christopher Columbus the discovery of the New World.
Project Zarya
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Ranked #7 for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Matelotes.
Project Zarya is an open-world adventure set in post-apocalyptic Russia, where every day is a fight for survival. Explore, gather resources, build shelters, craft equipment, and battle the infected alone or with friends.
dirtbag MAHJONG
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Ranked #8 for Matelotes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Riichi mahjong with a twist! Play mahjong with party game elements, for both beginners and experienced players.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Matelotes.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Matelotes.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Matelotes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Matelotes.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Matelotes.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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To Hell With The Ugly
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Another title from La Poule Noire, the studio behind Matelotes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac
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Another title from La Poule Noire, the studio behind Matelotes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Crackpot outcast Edgar sets out to Boulzac to save his squash, and instead uncovers an unearthly secret at the heart of the city. A colourful, surreal and utterly bonkers point-and-click narrative adventure.
Looking For Fael
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Another title from La Poule Noire, the studio behind Matelotes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?
Frequently asked about Matelotes
- What games are most similar to Matelotes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Matelotes are Demolitors, Roguebound Pirates, Food Devils.
- Who developed Matelotes?
- Matelotes was developed by La Poule Noire, ARTE France and published by ARTE France.
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 Matelotes.
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