Games like Trawler's Wake
If Trawler's Wake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nightmare Fishing Tournament, Hearthsail and SNAP JAW — 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 Trawler's Wake: A cheap trip to a paradise harbor lands you in a rotten fishing town full of mutants, anomalies, and fish worth a fortune. Fish by day, sell your catch, upgrade your old trawler, dig up the story, and try not to kick the bucket after dark.
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Steam players who put hours into Trawler's Wake 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.
Nightmare Fishing Tournament
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Top pick for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Trawler's Wake.
A fishing sim with a HORRIFYING twist!. It's not enough to simply HOOK a fish, players must ENTER THE WATER and take them on using WEAPONS like spearguns and floating mines! Once a fish is STUNNED, it must be REELED IN before it RECOVERS! Upgrade your ITEMS and use scales to CRAFT PERKS!
Hearthsail
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Second-strongest match for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
A relaxing co-op ocean adventure for you and your friends. Captain your own boat, build up your island home, and explore a vibrant archipelago full of secrets and stories. No game overs, no ticking clocks — just sail, fish, and create your own perfect slice of the sea.
SNAP JAW
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Third-strongest match for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Trawler's Wake.
A thrilling rogue-lite horror fishing experience. Pillage the sea, upgrade your boat, and FEED the increasingly hungry colossal-mechatronic creatures of the deep. All in an attempt to reverse the rapture of your adorable dog Jeremiah.
DREADMOOR
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Ranked #4 for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
DREADMOOR is a dark first-person fishing adventure game set in a submerged world, rotting from a past catastrophe. Fish in murky waters, upgrade your boat, craft survival gear, and fight monstrous creatures that lurk under the water and on the land.
Runi
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Ranked #5 for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
A cooperative low-poly survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, build shelter, and explore a vast wilderness with friends as you fight to endure together.
Escape From Lavender Island
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Ranked #6 for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
Explore a dream that refuses to end. As Zede Aksis, wander a surreal city that feels both alive and liminal, filled with digital citizens and absurd infrastructure. Can you find an escape? A way out of a world that remembers you better than you remember it?
Sailwind
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Ranked #7 for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!
Arctic Anxiety
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Ranked #8 for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
Survival simulator in extreme conditions. The game takes place in the Arctic ocean. The pilot of a cargo plane makes a hard landing on the water. To survive, the player will have to search for a cargo washed up on the shore.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trawler's Wake.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
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 Indie with Trawler's Wake.
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 Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
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 Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
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. Shares Indie with Trawler's Wake.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Trawler's Wake.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
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.
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Frequently asked about Trawler's Wake
- What games are most similar to Trawler's Wake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trawler's Wake are Nightmare Fishing Tournament, Hearthsail, SNAP JAW.
- Who developed Trawler's Wake?
- Trawler's Wake was developed by Icebound Labs.
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 Trawler's Wake.
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