Games like Here Be Dragons
If Here Be Dragons is your kind of game, the closest matches are Caribbean Pirates, Chased Around The World and Nantucket — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and whimsical. 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 Here Be Dragons: Here Be Dragons is a satirical turn-based strategy game featuring unique "living map" graphics, where you lead a group of crazed captains and eradicate legendary monsters in order to allow Christopher Columbus the discovery of the New World.
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Steam players who put hours into Here Be Dragons 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.
Caribbean Pirates
WHY THIS
Top pick for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Be Dragons.
A tactical board game about the battles of sailboats in the Caribbean Sea. Spaniards, Englishmen, pirates, privateers, corsairs and the ringing of piastres and doubloons.
Chased Around The World
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Travel the world as a thief collecting money bags or play as the police gathering clues to locate the thief.
Nantucket
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Here Be Dragons.
Third-strongest match for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Be Dragons.
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.
Valor & Victory
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Here Be Dragons.
Ranked #4 for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Valor & Victory is a fast-playing, easy to learn World War II squad-level game system. Based on the original Valor & Victory board game, the digital edition provides you with an accessible and deep challenge, developed for classic tabletop game lovers.
Sink Again
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Here Be Dragons.
Ranked #5 for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
Sink Again is a humorous game with a pirate theme, turn-based tactics with board game elements and much more.Assemble the perfect team of pirates and go in search of treasures.The game continues the tradition of turn-based tactics and brings many new elements and mechanics to the genre.
Pirate101
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Here Be Dragons.
Ranked #6 for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
Assemble your ragtag crew and prepare to plunder the skyways in search of the legendary map to El Dorado! Danger lurks around every corner as you outsmart clockwork soldiers, uncover hidden mysteries, and unleash powerful combos in this pirate turn-based tactics MMORPG.
Warhammer Quest (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Here Be Dragons.
Ranked #7 for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Here Be Dragons.
Based on the classic tabletop game, Warhammer Quest is an addictive mix of role-playing and strategy.
Wintermoor Tactics Club
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Here Be Dragons.
Ranked #8 for Here Be Dragons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Here Be Dragons at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Be Dragons.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Here Be Dragons.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Here Be Dragons.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Here Be Dragons on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Here Be Dragons.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Here Be Dragons.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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Frequently asked about Here Be Dragons
- Is Here Be Dragons verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Here Be Dragons is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Here Be Dragons cost?
- Here Be Dragons is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Here Be Dragons?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Here Be Dragons are Caribbean Pirates, Chased Around The World, Nantucket.
- Who developed Here Be Dragons?
- Here Be Dragons was developed by Red Zero Games and published by Pansolo.
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 Here Be Dragons.
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