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Games like It's About Pirates

If It's About Pirates is your kind of game, the closest matches are Plunderfall, Ocean Survivors and Pirate Survivors — 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.

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About It's About Pirates: Command your ship in an action-packed pirate roguelike. Combine deadly weapons, powerful items, and a fearless captain to create unique builds and survive the dangers of the high seas!

2026ActionWindowsby Elderwoof Games
It's About Pirates — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into It's About Pirates 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. Plunderfall

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Start betrayed on a raft in this open-seas pirate twin-stick roguelite. Plunder resources, upgrade your hideout, unlock new vessels and weapons, rescue your crew to grow your fleet, defeat traitor captains, loot their relics to unlock new waters, and rebuild your legacy.

    2026IndieSteam ↗
  2. Ocean Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Dominate the ocean! Sink enemy ships, loot their wrecks for gold, weave through a storm of cannonballs, and expand your arsenal. Level up unique builds, unlock abilities, and survive relentless attacks. Upgrade your ship and become the ultimate pirate!

    2026ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Pirate Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Cursed to the abyss, your skeleton crew battles hordes of sea monsters in this movement-focused bullet-heaven roguelite. Stack limitless upgrades, discover synergies, unlock unique ships and captains, and challenge deadly Sea Legends as the depths grow ever more dangerous.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Just Dying

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    A 2D Roguelite survivor featuring streamer parodies. Rescue your followers to stay off the unemployment line, unlock unique characters, stack powerful runes, and become a wrecking ball of total chaos. Learn. Die. Repeat.

    ActionCasualSteam ↗
  5. Roguebound Pirates

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Loot, upgrade & dominate! Your inventory IS your ship in this action roguelike. Customize weapons, create game-breaking synergies, and claim your place as the most overpowered pirate across the seas!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Ocean Homeward:Soul Summoner Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Play as a Soul Summoner, sail the nether Ocean, survive monster hordes. Awaken spirits, collect soul fragments, craft gear sets and build unique combat styles. Upgrade spirits, forge affixes, unlock legendary captains and vessels. Purify the Ocean, lead spirits Homeward, uncover nether sea secrets.

    2026CasualSteam ↗
  7. Hotspot Earth

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Environmental hazards are hitting humanity with increasing force - but you're hitting back! Defend cities, build a global movement and change society's path in this tactical horde survival arena.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Smawverse

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for It's About Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Cut down the risen dead in this dark fantasy bullet-heaven roguelike. You are Smaw, a stray cat reforged in iron to take back a kingdom unmade by its own keeper. Kneel at nine prophet shrines and stack their blessings into screen-clearing builds. How long can you last?

    2026ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗

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  1. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    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 ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

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  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with It's About Pirates.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about It's About Pirates

What games are most similar to It's About Pirates?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It's About Pirates are Plunderfall, Ocean Survivors, Pirate Survivors.
Who developed It's About Pirates?
It's About Pirates was developed by Elderwoof Games.

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