Games like Windward Isles
If Windward Isles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kaperfahrt, Leeway and Dawn of Piracy: Caribbean Tides — 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 Windward Isles: Trade, fight, and sail beyond the chart in a sun-drenched age-of-sail sandbox. Run cargo across ten living harbours, outgun corsairs with thundering broadsides, and rise from deckhand to legend — from a nimble cutter to a mighty man-o'-war.
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Kaperfahrt
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Top pick for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Sail an open Caribbean where every choice matters. Plunder ships in fierce naval battles, trade between rival houses, and build yourself from a humble sloop into a feared legend. Kaperfahrt is your pirate sandbox on a grand scale.
Leeway
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Second-strongest match for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Buy cheap, sell dear, and don't sink. Or rob everyone and spend the gold before the navy catches you. Leeway is a physics-first age-of-sail game where every knot of wind and every ton of cargo matters. Peer-to-peer multiplayer.
Dawn of Piracy: Caribbean Tides
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Third-strongest match for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Windward Isles.
Embark on the ultimate pirate adventure: command your ship, battle in epic naval combat, and explore a vast world for treasure and glory.
Port Royale 4
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Ranked #4 for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Windward Isles.
Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.
Sailing Era
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Ranked #5 for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Windward Isles.
Every voyage is a journey of "Sailing & Beyond" in Sailing Era! Navigate your fleet and sail for fun; run a business; have a romantic encounter in the tavern; capture pirates amid intense battle; explore inland for treasure... Experience foreign culture, make novel discoveries, and sail away!
Port Royale 3
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Ranked #6 for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Windward Isles.
The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.
Horizon's Gate
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Ranked #7 for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Voyage into the wide world of Eral as an explorer, trader, or privateer. Defeat your enemies on land or at sea in deep but straightforward tactical combat. Unravel the secrets behind Dominio's betrayal – or sail off in search of your own adventure.
The Caribbean Sail
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Ranked #8 for Windward Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Name your crew, purchase supplies, sail the world, harpoon fish, plunder your enemies, die horribly, unlock a new Captain and do it all over again!
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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. Shares Adventure with Windward Isles.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Windward Isles.
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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 Windward Isles.
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 Windward Isles.
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 Windward Isles.
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 Windward Isles.
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 Windward Isles.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Windward Isles.
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More from Meridian Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Meridian Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hexhorde
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Indie and RPG with Windward Isles.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
The Ancient Caverns
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Indie and RPG with Windward Isles.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
Bagatto
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
Bulwark Tower Defense
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
Twigs and Firewood
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Indie and Simulation with Windward Isles.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
Crownhold
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
Verlicia Saga
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
The Antler and Ale Inn
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Windward Isles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Windward Isles.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.
Frequently asked about Windward Isles
- What games are most similar to Windward Isles?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Windward Isles are Kaperfahrt, Leeway, Dawn of Piracy: Caribbean Tides.
- Who developed Windward Isles?
- Windward Isles was developed by Meridian Studios.
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