Games like Trawler's Wake
If Trawler's Wake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Marque & Reprisal, Nightmare Fishing Tournament and Hearthsail — 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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Marque & Reprisal
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Top pick for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
Explore. Trade. Fish. Whale. Colonize. Fight. Pillage. Survive. You are a sea captain in the year 1522, and the whole world is yours to discover in this roguelike sandbox historical sailing simulator.
Nightmare Fishing Tournament
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Second-strongest match 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
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Trawler's Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trawler's Wake.
A cozy sailing game about relighting a forgotten harbour. Fish, farm, cook and build across an ocean with no edge, where every shore stays where you found it. Restore Hearth Harbor alone or share one persistent world with friends in online co-op.
Catch&Cargo
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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.
“Catch & Cargo” is a first-person, single-player fishing and boating semi-simulator with survival elements, set in tropical waters. Catch and sell fish, deliver cargo, avoid storms, stay hydrated, and shed the “gringo” label as you adapt to the challenges of life on the open sea.
DREADMOOR
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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.
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.
Loam
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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.
Loam is a cooperative game in an infinite world where players gather resources, craft equipment, build structures on the land or at sea, explore and fight dangerous creatures alone or with friends.
Drowned Station
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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.
Drowned Station is a post-apocalyptic underground fishing adventure. Descend into the radioactive tunnel system. Scavenge through abandoned stations and rotten ruins. Follow the trail of your missing son, and discover what lurks beneath.
Escape From Lavender Island
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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.
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?
Free alternatives
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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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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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 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.
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.
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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 Marque & Reprisal, Nightmare Fishing Tournament, Hearthsail.
- 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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