The Best Sailing Games

Update, 19 April 2023: Survival: Fountain of Youth added at rank #49.

Hide early access

Sail Forth (2022)

View Similar Games

Review score

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

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?

Buy Buy

sailing
naval
pirates
procedural
lore
relaxing
physics
exploration
atmospheric

Sea of Thieves (2018)

View Similar Games

Review score

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.

Buy Buy Buy

sailing
pirates
multiplayer
open-world
cooperative
sandbox
adventure

Far: Changing Tides (2022)

View Similar Games

Review score

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

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.

Buy Buy

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

King of Seas (2021)

View Similar Games

Review score

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.

Buy Buy Buy Buy

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

Nantucket (2018)

View Similar Games

Review score

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.

Buy Buy Buy Buy

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

Sail (2022)

View Similar Games

Review score

early access Android PC Windows Oculus Rift

Open World VR Pirate Adventure Game!

Buy Buy

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

Horizon's Gate (2020)

View Similar Games

100

Review score

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.

Buy

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

Stormworks: Build and Rescue (2020)

View Similar Games

Review score

Screenshot of Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Mac OS PC Windows

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Buy Buy

building
trains
sandbox
open-world
simulation
crafting
sailing
automation
programming
survival
physics
tutorial
immersive
base-building
naval

Salt 2: Shores of Gold (2022)

View Similar Games

Review score

early access PC Windows

Salt 2 is an open world pirate game focused on exploration, survival, and crafting. Set sail across an infinite procedural world with just you and your ship. Explore islands filled with quests, caves, towns, pirates, and secrets. Level up skills, craft, hunt, fish, loot, and decorate your ship.

Buy

sailing
pirates
crafting
survival
naval
pve
procedural
character
sandbox
open-world
fishing
action-adventure
nonlinear
exploration
loot

Exiled Kingdoms (2018)

View Similar Games

Review score

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!

Buy Buy Buy