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Games like Pirate Code

If Pirate Code is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pirate Code 2: Reign of the Pirate King, Blackguards 2 and Crowntakers — 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.

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About Pirate Code: Battle pirates and win glory and treasure in this unique turn-based tactical strategy game. Manage your fleet, spending your gold carefully to build new ships and hire new crew. Enlist captains to train your crew and develop deeper tactics. The ocean is yours for the taking if you're brave enough!

2018StrategyIndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDWindows · macOSby Circuit Hive
Pirate Code — Steam game cover
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Captains grant unique crew bonusesFishing and botany provide non combat progressionHex grid battles emphasize tactical positioningAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into Pirate Code 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. Pirate Code 2: Reign of the Pirate King

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    An open-world, roguelite, turn-based pirate strategy game with a focus on tactical combat, exploration, and fleet customization. Explore a new world each time you play and fight through an endlessly branching story. Face down a relentless king and restore the Pirate Code!

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Blackguards 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pirate Code.

    Second-strongest match for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pirate Code.

    Third-strongest match for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. King's Bounty: Armored Princess

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Pirate Code.

    Ranked #4 for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Pirate Code.

    King’s Bounty: Armored Princess builds on the foundation of The Legend, expanding the classic formula with deeper turn-based tactics, a huge hand-crafted world, and new mechanics that change how you approach battles and progression.

    2009StrategyRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. King's Bounty: Crossworlds

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Pirate Code.

    Ranked #5 for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Pirate Code.

    King’s Bounty: Crossworlds is a standalone expansion that includes Armored Princess, two additional campaigns, and a world editor, expanding the classic King’s Bounty formula with new challenges and content.

    2010StrategyRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. King's Bounty II

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Pirate Code.

    Ranked #6 for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Pirate Code.

    Legend returns! King’s Bounty II is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary King’s Bounty video games franchise, one of the most iconic representatives of the turn-based RPG genre.

    2021StrategyAdventureRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Farabel

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pirate Code.

    Ranked #7 for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story. Develop your cleverness, your strategic prowess, and your inventive capabilities in order to survive!

    2016StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Blackguards

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pirate Code.

    Ranked #8 for Pirate Code fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pirate Code.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Pirate Code.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pirate Code.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pirate Code.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pirate Code.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Pirate Code on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pirate Code.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Pirate Code.

    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 Adventure with Pirate Code.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Pirate Code

How much does Pirate Code cost?
Pirate Code is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Pirate Code?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pirate Code are Pirate Code 2: Reign of the Pirate King, Blackguards 2, Crowntakers.
Who developed Pirate Code?
Pirate Code was developed by Circuit Hive.

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 Pirate Code.

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