Games like Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted
If Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nine Lives Hospital, Paint Gang and Heist of Fools — 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 Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted: A co-op game for 1–4 players where you and your friends dream of becoming fearsome pirates, but for now you're sailing in a leaky tub you call a ship. Patch holes, put out fires, raid weaker ships, flee from stronger ones, and upgrade your vessel. Work together, because at sea... Ship Happens!
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Nine Lives Hospital
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Top pick for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
You are clumsy cat doctors in a chaotic co-op hospital — a vet clinic in reverse, where the patients are human. Grab and haul ragdoll patients, X-ray, transplant and stitch against the clock, drive the claw-machine bed. For 1-4 online. Your patients don't have nine lives.
Paint Gang
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Second-strongest match for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
Mix colors by eye, race across a giant canvas, and try not to step in the wet paint. Paint Gang is a chaotic online co-op game for 1–4 painters where every masterpiece becomes a team-made disaster.
Heist of Fools
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Third-strongest match for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
Team up for chaotic fantasy heists with 2–4 players. Use four thieves’ unique abilities, outsmart guards and traps, haul enchanted loot, and escape before your mistakes bring the owner home.
Friendly Steps
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Ranked #4 for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
A physics-based 1-4 player co-op disaster about getting home after a wild night out. It was a fun night! Now grab your buddies and walk home. IF YOU REMEMBER HOW.
GET RAMMED
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Ranked #5 for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
GET RAMMED is a multiplayer party game with wacky physics-based battles. Play as chaotic goats trying to RAM each other off the stage with up to 8 friends! Challenge each other with a playful mix of different maps, power-ups and unexpected events!
Astro Seed
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Ranked #6 for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
A brutal physics-based climbing game, where a robot tries to escape a cave using nothing but his awkward arms.
Carpark Hero
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Ranked #7 for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Carpark Hero is a 2-8 player PVP Racing game where every round is an intense race to claim a parking spot before your friends do. There’s always one fewer spot than players, so if you don’t park your car, you’re eliminated. It builds to a final 1v1 showdown where one car is crowned the winner.
DAM IT
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Ranked #8 for Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
DAM IT! is an online co-op physics and destruction game. You and up to 8 friends are mischievous beavers with a simple mission: Destroy the evil corporation that has invaded your forest! Harvest wood, build dams and redirect rivers to create raging floods and wreck the corporations property!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted.
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.
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Frequently asked about Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted
- Does Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted are Nine Lives Hospital, Paint Gang, Heist of Fools.
- Who developed Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted?
- Ship Happens: Pirates Wanted was developed by Grimoire Entertainment.
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