The Best Sailing Games

Update, : Sagres added at rank #23.
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Sail Forth (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux

Sail a fleet of customizable ships across an ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. Befriend fishfolk to expand your boat crews, take up arms against petulant pirates, and chart a course across an expansive watery world. Will you answer the call of High Adventure?


  • sailing
  • naval
  • pirates
  • procedural
  • lore
  • relaxing
  • physics
  • exploration
  • atmospheric

2

Far: Changing Tides (2022)

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78
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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows Playstation 5

An atmospheric vehicle adventure that follows the emotional journey of a boy and his ship as he embarks on a voyage to find a new home.


  • puzzle
  • sailing
  • underwater
  • vehicle
  • submarine
  • post-apocalyptic
  • platform
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • 2.5d
  • relaxing
  • steampunk
  • action-adventure
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn

3

Sea of Thieves (2023)

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70
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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Sea of Thieves offers the essential pirate experience, from sailing and fighting to exploring and looting – everything you need to live the pirate life and become a legend in your own right. With no set roles, you have complete freedom to approach the world, and other players, however you choose.


  • sailing
  • pirates
  • multiplayer
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • adventure

4

King of Seas (2021)

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70
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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One

King of Seas is an Action Role playing game set in a procedural pirate world. An epic adventure awaits you in a fantastic world, dotted with fights, lost islands and treasures. A universe that will keep you anchored as you struggle to become the king of all pirates.


  • naval
  • sailing
  • pirates
  • rogue-like
  • rpg
  • procedural
  • pve
  • isometric
  • combat
  • action
  • battle
  • adventure

5

Sailing Era (2023)

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Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows

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!


  • sailing
  • trading
  • pirates
  • rpg
  • naval
  • discovery
  • exploration
  • transportation
  • anime
  • historical
  • battle

6

Nantucket (2018)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

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.


  • sailing
  • dice
  • pirates
  • management
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • historical
  • naval
  • economy-management
  • choices
  • japanese
  • darkness
  • jprg
  • battle

7

Sail (2022)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows dos

Open World VR Pirate Adventure Game!

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  • sailing
  • simulation
  • loot
  • immersive
  • sims
  • shooter
  • first-person
  • 6dof
  • swordplay
  • pirates
  • action-adventure
  • vr
  • naval
  • pvp
  • 3d

8

Sea of Thieves 2023 Edition (2020)

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PC Windows

Celebrate five years since Sea of Thieves' launch with this special edition, including a copy of the game with all permanent content added since launch, plus a 10,000 gold bonus and a selection of Hunter cosmetics: the Hunter Cutlass, Pistol, Compass, Hat, Jacket and Sails.


  • sailing
  • pirates
  • service
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • pvp
  • multiplayer
  • naval
  • narrative
  • underwater
  • first-person
  • swordplay
  • adventure

9

Horizon's Gate (2020)

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PC Windows

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.

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  • turn-based
  • sailing
  • naval
  • rpg
  • pirates
  • tactical
  • trading
  • strategy
  • character
  • party
  • nonlinear
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • open-world

10

Exiled Kingdoms (2018)

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Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

Roam freely through a huge open world full with dangers, ancient secrets and adventure. An old-school action-RPG with a challenging environment, tough choices and a unique setting. Explore, fight, make friends and enemies... and above all, Roleplay!


  • rpg
  • isometric
  • dungeon-crawler
  • sailing
  • arpg
  • adventure
  • war
  • action
  • single-player

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