Games like Upwind
If Upwind is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fishing Alone, UNDER the WATER - an ocean survival game and Where's the Boat — 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 Upwind: An immersive land sailing adventure where you master the wind to explore scarred lands and the remnants of lost civilizations, piecing together how humanity’s bond with nature was broken. Customize your land yacht and learn to navigate storms, calms, and shifting winds across a wind ruled world.
Players who liked Upwind also play
Steam players who put hours into Upwind 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.
Fishing Alone
WHY THIS
Top pick for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Upwind.
Fishing Alone is a game where you play as an automata service robot, endlessly fishing in a tranquil, post-apocalyptic world, uncovering fragments of the lost human past.
UNDER the WATER - an ocean survival game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Upwind.
How long do you survive on a small island in the middle of a flooded world?
Where's the Boat
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upwind.
Where's the Boat is a sandbox open world survival crafting game set on an archipelago of deserted islands. Gather resources, craft tools, tend to your needs and travel from island to island in search for a way back to civilization.
Hiraeth
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Upwind.
☵ HIRAETH is a sci-fi, first-person realistic survival game set on the desolate alien planet Ahra Prime, now offering an introduction to Story Mode with tasks and a multi‑stage quest. Explore on foot, by vehicle, or underwater as the planet tests you. Only the strong survive – but how long… and you?
Pigeon Guild
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Upwind.
Pigeon Guild is an adventure RPG with no combat. You play as Jules Corso, a rookie cadet in an airborne postal service. Pilot your flying cargo boat through Cassandria - a world of floating islands where every delivery tells a story.
The Crisis Zone
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Upwind.
The Crisis Zone is a sci-fi exploration game with elements of horror in a dramatic atmosphere. Explore this open world and find information about how you got here and how you can escape from this quarantine zone. Avoid the monsters and security drones patrolling the territory
SCP
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Upwind.
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
Sailing alone:Aftermath
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Upwind fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Upwind.
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Upwind.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upwind.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Upwind.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Upwind.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upwind.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Upwind.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Upwind.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Upwind
- What games are most similar to Upwind?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Upwind are Fishing Alone, UNDER the WATER - an ocean survival game, Where's the Boat.
- Who developed Upwind?
- Upwind was developed by Contraviento.
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 Upwind.
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