Games like Rotten Sails
Below are 20 hand-picked alternatives to Rotten Sails for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Rotten Sails also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Rotten Sails: Co-op pirate horror for 1–4 players. You're already dead.. Now loot cursed islands, keep your haunted ship afloat, and pay the Black Armada's price. Or rot forever.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Loot Gobblin' Together
Top pick for Rotten Sails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rotten Sails.
An online co-op game where you and your friends play greedy gobblins invading human houses to steal and gobble loot. Climb, stretch, and manage your stamina to survive chaotic heists and feed your Gobblin King.
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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Second-strongest match for Rotten Sails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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MIMESIS
Third-strongest match for Rotten Sails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
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Murky Divers
Ranked #4 for Rotten Sails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
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Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Ranked #5 for Rotten Sails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rotten Sails.
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
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Lethal Company
Ranked #6 for Rotten Sails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
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Cursed Companions
Ranked #7 for Rotten Sails fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
If we say the wrong words... WE DIE! This game kills you with your own voices! Online co-op where everyone gets a forbidden word, say it and you kill your friends. Explore spooky dungeons, cast spells and defeat monsters with your voices.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rotten Sails.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Rotten Sails.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rotten Sails.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rotten Sails.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rotten Sails.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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MIMESIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
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Murky Divers
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rotten Sails.
Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.
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Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Rotten Sails.
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
Frequently asked about Rotten Sails
- Does Rotten Sails have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rotten Sails supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rotten Sails?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rotten Sails are Loot Gobblin' Together, Salt 2: Shores of Gold, MIMESIS.
- Who developed Rotten Sails?
- Rotten Sails was developed by DaBomb 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 Rotten Sails.
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