Games like Oceaneers
If Oceaneers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ecliptica, SpaceSlog and Whiskerwood — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and chill. 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 Oceaneers: A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
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Steam players who put hours into Oceaneers 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.
Ecliptica
WHY THIS
Top pick for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Oceaneers.
Ecliptica is a first-person open-world colony survival simulator with a fully dynamic economy. Set on a hostile alien planet, you'll found corporations, fight for resources, and build a sustainable future—or be wiped out by ruthless nature, politics, and competition.
SpaceSlog
WHY THIS
Shares crew management, difficulty scaling, survival and an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Second-strongest match for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oceaneers.
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game features simulated ship systems and a lived in universe which creates a challenging, unique and unforgettable experience with every playthrough.
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling, survival management, simulation and an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Third-strongest match for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Oceaneers.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Ranked #4 for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oceaneers.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
WHY THIS
Shares crew management, survival management, survival and an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Ranked #5 for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oceaneers.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Ascent of Ashes
WHY THIS
Shares colony management, resource scarcity and an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Ranked #6 for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oceaneers.
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Nova Roma
WHY THIS
Shares survival management, resource management, simulation and an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Ranked #7 for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Oceaneers.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Ars Notoria
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Ranked #8 for Oceaneers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Oceaneers.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Oceaneers
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Oceaneers.
Reviewers of Oceaneers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oceaneers.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Oceaneers.
Reviewers of Oceaneers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oceaneers.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Raft
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Reviewers of Oceaneers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oceaneers.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Oceaneers.
Reviewers of Oceaneers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oceaneers.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Oceaneers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Oceaneers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oceaneers.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Oceaneers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Oceaneers.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Oceaneers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Oceaneers.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Oceaneers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Oceaneers.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Oceaneers on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Oceaneers.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Oceaneers on Steam right now. Shares Action with Oceaneers.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Oceaneers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Oceaneers.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Oceaneers.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Oceaneers.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oceaneers.
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.
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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Oceaneers.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Oceaneers.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Oceaneers
- Does Oceaneers run on Steam Deck?
- Oceaneers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Oceaneers cost?
- Oceaneers is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Oceaneers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Oceaneers are Ecliptica, SpaceSlog, Whiskerwood.
- Who developed Oceaneers?
- Oceaneers was developed by Barrel Smash Studios.
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