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Games like Nightmariners

If Nightmariners is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deborg Desolation Pre-Born, Mournight and Lastbane — 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.

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About Nightmariners: NightMariners is a co-op horror adventure game where you sail across dark seas, explore cursed islands, and enter dangerous caves.

2026ActionIndieAdventure3.36 USDWindowsby Ocean's Call Studios
Nightmariners — Steam game cover

Players who liked Nightmariners also play

Steam players who put hours into Nightmariners 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.

  1. Deborg Desolation Pre-Born

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    Deborg Desolation is a first-person indie game intended for the survival of mankind. Train to be a soldier capable of containing any injurious entity to achieve the survival of your own race, seek to plan strategies that allow your advancement without stopping.

    2021ActionAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Mournight

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    A terrifying 1–4 player co-op horror game set in a cursed mansion. Use flashlights, find clues, and survive the horrors within. Every decision matters. Can you escape before the curse claims you?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Lastbane

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    Lastbane is a CO-OP asymmetric horror game. Together with your friends, you must try to escape the map silently without being caught by sound-sensitive creatures that react to microphones and in-game voice chat.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. DEATH FROM BELOW

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    DEATH FROM BELOW is a 1-4 player co-op horror game where you and your crew hunt for sunken relics on a steam-powered trawler: navigate cursed waters, operate your ship's steam-driven machinery, and sharpen your harpoon. Beware of the eldritch creatures guarding their treasures beneath the surface.

    ActionAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Absolute Fear -AOONI- / 最恐 -青鬼-

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    20 years after the birth of the legendary horror game "AOONI"... A completely new first-person, 3D horror stealth action "Absolute Fear -AOONI-" is now available! Players take on the role of a younger sister searching for her older sister in a mysterious mansion where AOONI roam.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Deadly Broadcast

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    Deadly Broadcast is a co-op horror and survival game that can be played with 1-4 players. As a Famous Streamer, you have to stay alive, but at the same time you should stream the paranormal events in the cursed places to gather more donations and more viewers. Don’t die! Don’t cut the Broadcast!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Backrooms: Lost Tape

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    You work in the cinema as an usher and accidentally fell into the Backrooms, now being trapped, needing to unravel the mysteries of the yellow rooms in order to get out of this place, but be careful, there are entities that will be in your way.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dollhouse of Dead

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Nightmariners fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    In this co-op horror game, your team visits abandoned toy factories. Collect various junk, extract materials from it, create and improve your equipment. And try to survive, because while you are exploring the dark dungeons of factories, bloodthirsty toys are hunting you

    2025ActionAdventure3.84 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nightmariners at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Nightmariners.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The NOexistenceN of you AND me

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~41% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

    2024IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~71% under Nightmariners on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightmariners.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nightmariners.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Nightmariners.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nightmariners.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nightmariners.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Nightmariners.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Nightmariners

How much does Nightmariners cost?
Nightmariners is listed on Steam at 3.36 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Nightmariners have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Nightmariners supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
What games are most similar to Nightmariners?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightmariners are Deborg Desolation Pre-Born, Mournight, Lastbane.
Who developed Nightmariners?
Nightmariners was developed by Ocean's Call Studios.

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 Nightmariners.

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