Games like The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
If The people of Sea, Sun & Salt is your kind of game, the closest matches are HistoriCity: Florence, Time's Up in Tiny Town and Lord Of Anatolia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 The people of Sea, Sun & Salt: Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island. Define the tenets of your culture, deal with your subjects' needs and withstand the forces of the elements.
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Steam players who put hours into The people of Sea, Sun & Salt 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.
HistoriCity: Florence
WHY THIS
Top pick for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Rebuild a shattered settlement from the devastation of the Black Plague into a flourishing Renaissance metropolis. Manage production, construct iconic landmarks, and recruit powerful masters as you play through historically inspired narrative missions.
StrategySteam ↗Time's Up in Tiny Town
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Time's Up in Tiny Town is a fast-paced city-builder, in a pocket-sized world.
Lord Of Anatolia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Lead a 14th-century Anatolian tribe from a small camp to a great Sancak. Build your dynasty, manage characters with real personalities, survive seasons and raids — a deep colony management game. Made solo over 2 years.
Powerplay
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Ranked #5 for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
WHY THIS
Shares city building, tech tree progression and an atmospheric mood with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Ranked #6 for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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.
Mars Attracts
WHY THIS
Shares tech tree progression, building and an atmospheric mood with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Ranked #7 for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Surviving the Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Ranked #8 for The people of Sea, Sun & Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The people of Sea, Sun & Salt at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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 ~50% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The people of Sea, Sun & Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
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.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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More from Emerick Gibson
Other recommendable Steam games by Emerick Gibson, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
City Maker
WHY THIS
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind The people of Sea, Sun & Salt. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Will you manage to make a thriving metropolis or will you have to settle for a small rural town?
Crate Mates
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind The people of Sea, Sun & Salt. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
The pinnacle of warehouse simulators. Crate Mates is a block pushing puzzle game with a unique twist: Gravity.
Hexton
WHY THIS
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind The people of Sea, Sun & Salt. Shares Strategy and Indie with The people of Sea, Sun & Salt.
Explore, build, harvest. Hexton is a relaxing building game where you try to create the largest city possible. Looking for a light challenge? This game's for you!
Frequently asked about The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
- Does The people of Sea, Sun & Salt run on Steam Deck?
- The people of Sea, Sun & Salt 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 The people of Sea, Sun & Salt cost?
- The people of Sea, Sun & Salt is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The people of Sea, Sun & Salt?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The people of Sea, Sun & Salt are HistoriCity: Florence, Time's Up in Tiny Town, Lord Of Anatolia.
- Who developed The people of Sea, Sun & Salt?
- The people of Sea, Sun & Salt was developed by Emerick Gibson and published by RockGame S.A..
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