Rank 01Why this
Shares crew management with Nantucket.
- $4.99 (Price checked Oct 4)
- Deck Playable
- 2019
Games like Nantucket
- 20 games
- Updated May 4, 2026
Players who liked Nantucket also play
The closest matches to Nantucket: Abandon Ship, Sid Meier's Pirates!, The Caribbean Sail, Blood and Gold: Caribbean!, and Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Rank 02Why this
Also Sailing and Naval, like Nantucket.
- $2.49 (Price checked Oct 4)
- 2005
Rank 03- $4.49 (Price checked Oct 3)
- Deck Playable
- 2017
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Corsairs Legacy - Pirate Action RPG & Sea Battles
Why this: Shares resource trading and crew management with Nantucket.
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Rise of Piracy
Why this: Shares prestige system with Nantucket.
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The full ranked list: top 24 games like Nantucket
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Shares resource trading and crew management with Nantucket.
- 74% of 247 reviews
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- Released: 2018
- Developer: Picaresque Games
- Price: $5.39−70%checked Oct 3
- 76% of 553 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Adventure, Simulation, RPG
- Metacritic 74
- Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Players highlight
- Art and music perfectly capture the whaling era
- Crew traits add meaningful depth to decisions
- Replayable with different crew builds
- Atmospheric
- Immersive
- Melancholic
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Cheaper alternatives
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Why this: Also Sailing and Pirates, like Nantucket.
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Why this: Also Naval and Pirates, like Nantucket.
Uncharted Ocean
Why this: Also Sailing and Historical, like Nantucket.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Why this: Same atmospheric mood as Nantucket.
Port Royale 3
Why this: Also Sailing and Naval, like Nantucket.
Free alternatives
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Maelstrom
Why this: Also Sailing and Naval, like Nantucket.
Blackwake
Why this: Shares crew management with Nantucket.
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
Why this: Also Board Game and Historical, like Nantucket.
Pirates Vikings & Knights II
Why this: Also Pirates and Historical, like Nantucket.
About Nantucket
The closest matches to Nantucket: Abandon Ship, Sid Meier's Pirates!, The Caribbean Sail, Blood and Gold: Caribbean!, and Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Nantucket is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abandon Ship, Sid Meier's Pirates! and The Caribbean Sail — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, immersive and melancholic, and single out its crew management and dice based resolution. 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.
About Nantucket: Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
Is Nantucket worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 76% of 553 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- On sale: 70% off, now $5.39 (checked Oct 3).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 13 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 8 h before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Art and music perfectly capture the whaling era
- Crew traits add meaningful depth to decisions
- Replayable with different crew builds
- Story ties directly to moby dicks themes
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“If you enjoy losing randomly , you will love this game. If you want to learn a system that is hard satisfying and complex. Look elsewhere. Even when you use all of the classes as intended, you make the game a waiting sim”
People who play it also play: Abandon Ship, Sid Meier's Pirates!, The Caribbean Sail
Frequently asked about Nantucket
Can I run it?
How much does Nantucket cost?
Nantucket is listed on Steam at 5.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Nantucket?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nantucket are Abandon Ship, Sid Meier's Pirates!, The Caribbean Sail.
Who developed Nantucket?
Nantucket was developed by Picaresque Games.