Games like Madness Afloat
If Madness Afloat is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sea Of Rifts, Windward Horizon and ATLAS — 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 Madness Afloat: Pilot customizable steamships through a Lovecraftian Polynesian archipelago. Explore and survive handcrafted missions, manage cursed cargo, and balance sanity against power. Face the deep alone or in optional co-op expeditions.
Players who liked Madness Afloat also play
Steam players who put hours into Madness Afloat 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.
Sea Of Rifts
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Top pick for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
In this naval sandbox RPG you assemble a motley crew of misfits and sail into a broken ocean to solve the mystery of why the world is falling apart. Engage in tense ship to ship combat and experience a new unique story every time you play. The helm is yours Captain.
Windward Horizon
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Second-strongest match for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Trade, quest, fight, or simply set sail and enjoy the ambiance in this charming open world naval RPG. Sequel to Tasharen's fan favorite game Windward released on Steam in 2015.
ATLAS
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Third-strongest match for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Secret World Legends
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Ranked #4 for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
Windrose
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Ranked #5 for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt
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Ranked #6 for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of the Antilles!
Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey
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Ranked #7 for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
DREDGE
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Ranked #8 for Madness Afloat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Madness Afloat.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
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 Action with Madness Afloat.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Madness Afloat.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Madness Afloat.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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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.
Windward Horizon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Trade, quest, fight, or simply set sail and enjoy the ambiance in this charming open world naval RPG. Sequel to Tasharen's fan favorite game Windward released on Steam in 2015.
Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Madness Afloat.
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
DREDGE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Madness Afloat.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Frequently asked about Madness Afloat
- Does Madness Afloat have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Madness Afloat supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Madness Afloat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Madness Afloat are Sea Of Rifts, Windward Horizon, ATLAS.
- Who developed Madness Afloat?
- Madness Afloat was developed by Dynamic Box.
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 Madness Afloat.
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