Games like Down with the Ship
If Down with the Ship is your kind of game, the closest matches are Turnbound, NARNOK and Rampallians — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitive, intense and stressful. 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 Down with the Ship: Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.
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Turnbound
WHY THIS
Shares auto battler, build crafting and a competitive mood with Down with the Ship.
Top pick for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
Turnbound is an auto battler, where you manage a hero's inventory to escape a haunted boardgame. Each run is different from the last, with unique upgrades, combos and synergies. Async PvP lets you battle the ghosts of other players at your own pace in this unique new inventory battler.
NARNOK
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Down with the Ship.
NARNOK has no attacks. Build your universe and assemble your alien lineup. Battle other players' ghost lineups and gain more NARNOK than them. There is only NAR, the essence of good and order. There is only NOK, the essence of evil and chaos.
StrategySteam ↗Rampallians
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Down with the Ship.
Rampallians blends the resource gathering of strategy games with core card game mechanics from Trading Card Game classics. With an auto battler for combat, in a fantasy setting. Nearly 400 cards available, and future expansions to be free updates. So no pay to win, ever.
One Last Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Down with the Ship.
Most autobattlers reset after every match. One Last Sacrifice doesn't. Unlock skills across a branching skill tree. Build a deck. Improve creatures by crafting. Compete in 1v1 duels or 8-player elimination tournaments - sync and async play supported.
BannerRush
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
Fast. Tactical. Addictive. In BannerRush, your deck becomes your army. Play cards to deploy troops, buildings and spells directly onto the battlefield. Play solo, splitscreen or challenge others online.
Claw and Conjure
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
The empire is in ruins. Build an elite army from 5 unique factions in this fantasy RPG auto-battler. Clash with real players in async PvP, discover powerful synergies, and outmaneuver your opponents to rule the empire.
Oaken Tower
WHY THIS
Shares build crafting, leaderboards and a competitive mood with Down with the Ship.
Ranked #7 for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Down with the Ship.
Oaken Tower is a synergy-heavy PvP auto battler where your tower of items fights other players. Build deadly combos and scale exponentially. Every decision matters.
Valefor
WHY THIS
Shares auto battler and build crafting with Down with the Ship.
Ranked #8 for Down with the Ship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
A Tactical Auto-Battler set in a Dark Fantasy world- complete with Roguelike Dungeons, a PVP Arena, Crafting and Kingdom Building.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Down with the Ship at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Down with the Ship.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Down with the Ship.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Down with the Ship.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Down with the Ship.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Down with the Ship.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Down with the Ship on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Down with the Ship.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Down with the Ship.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Down with the Ship.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Limbus Company
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.
Dota Underlords
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Down with the Ship.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
Super Auto Pets
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Down with the Ship.
Build the strongest team of pets and tussle with your friends!
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Frequently asked about Down with the Ship
- How much does Down with the Ship cost?
- Down with the Ship is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Down with the Ship have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Down with the Ship supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Down with the Ship?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Down with the Ship are Turnbound, NARNOK, Rampallians.
- Who developed Down with the Ship?
- Down with the Ship was developed by Iron Anchor Games and published by Proxy Studios.
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