Games like Bilge Rats
If Bilge Rats is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blackwake, Sail and Rotten Sails — 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 Bilge Rats: A 1-4 player co-op sailing game. Crew a ship out of Crook's Haven, take the work nobody sensible takes, and race home before the debt comes due. And when the storm hits, keep an eye on the bilge, rat.
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Steam players who put hours into Bilge Rats 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.
Blackwake
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Top pick for Bilge Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bilge Rats.
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
Rotten Sails
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Third-strongest match for Bilge Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bilge Rats.
A co-op horror about looting cursed islands for a cartel that won't go ashore itself. 1–4 players, in-game proximity chat, no weapons.
Feral Blue
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Ranked #4 for Bilge Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bilge Rats.
The old world has drowned after the Second Flood. Now, only few survivors are fighting for the new gold - clean water, wood and soil. Become a ship's captain, keep your crew alive and create your sea empire!
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
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Ranked #5 for Bilge Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bilge Rats.
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
Blood and Gold: Caribbean!
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Ranked #6 for Bilge Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bilge Rats.
'Blood & Gold: Caribbean!' is a blend of economic strategy and open-world RPG, set in the pirate era of XVII Century Caribbean. The game is based on the significantly improved Mount & Blade: Warband engine.
Salt
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Ranked #7 for Bilge Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bilge Rats.
Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.
Salt 2: Shores of Gold
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Ranked #8 for Bilge Rats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bilge Rats.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Bilge Rats.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Bilge Rats.
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 Action and Indie with Bilge Rats.
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 with Bilge Rats.
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 and Adventure with Bilge Rats.
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 Action and Indie with Bilge Rats.
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 Bilge Rats.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Bilge Rats.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Bilge Rats
- Does Bilge Rats have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Bilge Rats supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Bilge Rats?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bilge Rats are Blackwake, Sail, Rotten Sails.
- Who developed Bilge Rats?
- Bilge Rats was developed by LEAL Games.
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 Bilge Rats.
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