Games Like HoD: On open seas

A dynamic adventure. Protect delicious candies from impudent thieving gnomes! A whole assortment of development opportunities! Candy Thieves is a dynamic strategy game about making candy and protecting it from impudent thieving gnomes. They are legendary misers, known for their greed – and so are the main characters of the game.

Why similar: Strategy 47.5%, Action 26.5%, Adventure 26%

Thousands of incoming asteroids...One robot...An untested defense force...The odds are about even!

Why similar: Strategy 63.2%, Action 36.8%

After a century of bloody galactic battle, a horde of intelligent bloodthirsty aliens, known as the Kri’iSara, threaten to exterminate all human life. New Alliance Command is counting on you to destroy the alien menace.

Why similar: Strategy 60%, Action 40%

Pirates of Justice is a strategic puzzle game where players help pirates destroy corrupt Marine buildings by placing objects to guide a bomb ball to its target. Use your wits to bring down the Marine's stronghold and rise through the pirate ranks.

Why similar: Pirates 33.5% ★, Strategy 23.5%, Action 16.9%, Adventure 14.8%, Action-Adventure 11.3%

A local multiplayer party game, where you sail ships and blow up your friends.

Why similar: Pirates 55.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 26.4%, Action 18.3%

Plunder your way to the top and claim the title of Pirate King. This humorous mix of adventure and strategy lets you unite pirate factions, manage strongholds, and dominate land and sea battles. Raid, recruit, and wreak havoc across the Caribbean in your quest for ultimate infamy.

Why similar: Pirates 76.7% ★, Strategy 23.3%

Get ready to set sail! You are the captain of the M.S. Tradewind, a trade ship bound for the open sea! Gather your crew, test your sea readiness, and explore the world in this 8-bit action/RPG inspired by NES classics.

Why similar: Pirates 77% ★, Adventure 23%

Captured, but not defeated, you are being held in the notorious Heldentod camp. This small, converted castle in the middle of nowhere will be your home for the rest of the war—unless you can escape to rejoin the Allied Armies.

Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Action 28.1%, Adventure 26.9%

Your plane has ditched on a mountain plateau somewhere in deepest Tibet. You and your companions are alive but recovery from the impact is short lived; a large shape is moving towards you. As it gets closer you rub your eyes in disbelief: a Dinosaur! Where are you?... and when?

Why similar: Strategy 44.4%, Adventure 27.9%, Action 27.8%

Lee sleepwalks on city rooftops, through the local zoo, down into a cavernous crypt, and across an active construction site! It’s up to Lee’s loyal dog Ralph to watch over him, neutralize hazards, and safely guide him home to his bed without waking him up in this hilarious puzzle platformer.

Why similar: Strategy 61.4%, Adventure 38.6%

Command the most fearsome pirates in an exciting Caribbean adventure! Plague of the Dead is a new installment of The Pirate series, featuring an open world without loading screens, dynamic day and night cycle and weather system, it offers each gamer an unforgettable experience.

Why similar: Pirates 66.3% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Action 9.5%, Adventure 7.4%, Action-Adventure 3%

Special Alert: Terrorists have invaded our embassy and seized an undetermined number of hostages...Lives hang in the balance as high ranking diplomats are held at gunpoint...Their safety requires immediate action... prepare to infiltrate the embassy, neutralize the terrorists, and rescue the hostages, or die trying.

Why similar: Strategy 59.8%, Action 40.2%

Fight for what's right—as an up and coming pirate! Battle slavers, sea monsters, and your own corrupt government to become a hero of the high seas. But will you betray your own crew for wealth and power?

Why similar: Pirates 89.5% ★, Adventure 10.5%

Command iconic pirate ships of the early 18th century and experience life as a true sea captain, sailing freely across the open world. Engage in naval battles, expand your fleet, recruit legendary captains, and manage resources to support your life at sea.

Why similar: Pirates 58% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Adventure 11.4%, Action-Adventure 9.9%, Action 3.6%

Pirate's Life is a 2D strategy game / city builder with an isometric camera where you take on the role of the captain of a crew of pirates that got shipwrecked on a deserted island. You will need to take care of your crews' individual needs (like hunger and drunkeness) in order to prevent a mutiny.

Why similar: Pirates 68.3% ★, Strategy 31.7%

THIS GAME IS NO LONGER BEING DEVELOPED, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT. This page is here only to help the former devs and artists find new jobs in the industry.Hunt For Gods was a competitive, non pay-to-win, hero shooter game in which each of the 3 teams is led by a strategic player named God.

Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Great Soundtrack 33.2%, Action 24.2%

Black Flag Rising is a thrilling pirate adventure where you command a crew, explore the ocean’s depths, and build an empire. Conquer or strategize your way through perilous waters, facing storms and battles. The question remains: will you rise, or fall beneath the black flag?

Why similar: Pirates 50.7% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Cartoony 8.7%

This world is dark. The Toymaker’s Apprentice has captured our citizens and enslaved us with his evil toys. Is there one amongst you brave enough to journey into his world on an unforgiving quest to end his tyranny and free so many lost souls……...

Why similar: Strategy 43.4%, Action 29.2%, Adventure 27.4%

Use your voice to command your pirate crew before enemy ships sink you!

Why similar: Pirates 57.6% ★, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Adventure 9.1%, Action 8%, Funny 6.7%

Welcome to Washed Up Wizard, a 3d top-down shooter following the adventures of a crazy wizard with all kinds of magical abilities at your disposal to take down enemies and escape from a multidimensional mental hospital. But as real as danger seems, you're just hallucinating... right?

Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Action 30.2%, Adventure 27%

There's no Salvation from this army! Can you survive this furiously fast, kill-for-money, real-time blood-fest?

Why similar: Strategy 50.5%, Adventure 25.1%, Action 24.5%

"BUSY SPIDER" is a 3D shooting strategy action game launched by Yousoi Co.,Ltd. It is specially developed for game consoles and mainframes. It adopts full-view mode. Players are in constant and intense battles, using wisdom to defeat enemies. To accomplish this, you must rely on yourself alone.

Why similar: Strategy 43%, Action 31.2%, Adventure 25.8%

Control Freak is the wacky action game where you have to think fast to out smart your friends.

Why similar: Strategy 44.7%, Adventure 28.1%, Action 27.3%

Test your skills and master new strategies to defend your pirate ship while building your crew. Customize your character with 38,416 unique combinations. Compete for the fastest time on the global leaderboard to become the Pirate King. Be prepared as the screen fills with mayhem and intensity!

Why similar: Pirates 42.2% ★, Strategy 28.6%, Action 20.1%, Funny 9.2%

The hardest game in the world.

Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, Action 28.6%, Adventure 26.8%

Slip through the door of time and face your destiny in a bizarre parallel universe! In this imaginative classic from ERE Informatique's Exxos label, your quest to rescue the Sci-Mutant Princess pits you against the five terrifying Ordeals of Delios in the treacherous realm of the Protozorqs.

Why similar: Strategy 41.1%, Adventure 32.4%, Action 26.4%

You are required to go into battle against huge enemy forces, using your wit you must engage and defeat huge enemy forces. This 3D first person space combat role will require you to protect civilians, remove enemy threats and clear the way for you capital ships to annihilate the enemy forces.

Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Action 27.6%, Adventure 27.1%

Action-Adventure with a twist: cook your own weapons, eat them for power, and battle as a hungry pirate in a hilarious seafaring tale.

Why similar: Pirates 55.5% ★, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Cartoony 9.9%, Funny 9.6%, Action 7.1%

Ahoy mateys! From the Mind of Sid Meier, The Golden Age of Buccaneering has returned with Pirates! Gold!

Why similar: Pirates 80.4% ★, Adventure 19.6%

Pirate Fighting Simulator is a free multiplayer PVP game where you can fight friends or randoms on an island arena

Why similar: Pirates 65.8% ★, Local Multiplayer 13.4%, Action 11.9%, Cartoony 8.9%

Take a role of a true general of a real army. Join the battle, capture enemies’ castles and raise the power of your army. Lead your clan to the victory!

Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, Action 25.4%, Adventure 23.9%

Blackbeard is a brave man who fight for honer no matter what the cost. Help him on his adventure to stand against evil. If you love classic platform games or jungle adventure games, or would you like to return to your childhood memory? Our game Blackbeard the Cursed Jungle is the best choice for you.

Why similar: Pirates 58.1% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Adventure 8.6%, Action 7.4%

Bric is an intense randomized level game with pleasing smoothness in gameplay. You're a ball trying to move forward avoiding death from various black objects and avoid getting crushed by the white bars that close in on you while you move forward through levels.

Why similar: Strategy 44.7%, Adventure 28%, Action 27.3%

Embark on an online co-op pirate game with physics-based gameplay, where you can play with up to 4 players. Find different islands and engage the creatures that live there. Fight, plunder and explore the different environments to satisfy the captain's need for treasure.

Why similar: Pirates 70.8% ★, Adventure 13.2%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Funny 4.8%

Become Cillian Cade, a pirate thief who’s in over his head after a heist gone wrong. After stealing a magical gauntlet possessed by the spirit of a pirate lord, the duo set out to find an ancient vault. Outwit and outplay the crew of a malicious pirate captain who wants the treasure all for himself.

Why similar: Pirates 64.5% ★, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Action 11.6%, Adventure 11.1%

Dive into this wonderful cartoon world and learn to use the characteristics of each material to overcome challenges. You will need balls to pass this game.

Why similar: Strategy 44%, Action 28.7%, Adventure 27.3%

Battle Royale Survival is a Battle Royale game set in a cartoon styled world. Fight against players or bots.

Why similar: Action 37.1%, Adventure 35.2%, Strategy 27.8%

'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.

Why similar: Pirates 78.3% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Adventure 6.5%, Action 5.5%

Battle game of two characters, use one key to perform its nirvana! Players who have never played any fighting games do not need to worry.

Why similar: Pirates 60.7% ★, Action 20.4%, Local Multiplayer 18.8%

As a member of an elite squad, you are tasked with a mission to penetrate into the great abyss. You are to explore an unknown cave system and eliminate all threats that may arise, Good luck Soldier!

Why similar: Strategy 46.4%, Action 27.1%, Adventure 26.6%

Project Sail is an open world naval combat game set in a fantastical pirate world. Project Sail is a top down third-person arcade shooter with RPG and rouge-like elements. Discover unique locations, find hidden treasure, and battle against the pirate and royal navy factions.

Why similar: Pirates 35.3% ★, Action 19.4%, Adventure 17.5%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, Cartoony 12.4%

Fight for dominion in Battlewake, a fantasy naval combat game built for VR. Play as 4 mythical pirate lords, captain massive battle-ready warships, and summon ancient powers as you set sail on a larger-than-life nautical war for the ages.

Why similar: Pirates 60.1% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 10.4%

Sail the Caribbean Sea in this epic tale of true love, treasure, and intrigue. How will you navigate the changing tides? Only you can decide.

Why similar: Pirates 84.8% ★, Adventure 15.2%

How about entering an epic and fantastic medieval world than you've ever seen before. In the legendary world of The Roaring Empire, you can talk to dragons, charm and guide your adventure with countless characters. Add a new color of RPG with this game.

Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Action 27.6%, Adventure 27.1%

Swords and Crossbones: An Epic Pirate Story is a high seas swashbuckling adventure! Explore the oceans, battle brigands, defend the helpless, find the lost treasure of a forgotten people, build and maintain your very own pirate island, and more! All of this in a fully realized role playing adventure from Epic Devs.

Why similar: Pirates 49.8% ★, Strategy 32.4%, Adventure 17.8%

In the near future, humanity has been minimalized, as the rise of android-rule crushes any threats to its near-term dominance. As part of the resistance, it’s your goal to undermine the automated dictatorship, and help free mankind from its robotic bonds.

Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Action 27.6%, Adventure 27.1%

Very STRANGE Indie Rage Horror Game...

Why similar: Strategy 30.2%, Adventure 20.7%, Action 19.3%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, Cartoony 14.2%

Bulleto Master is a game in the wild wild west style. You shoot and control your bullets and try to move them to bunce and hit your targets.You can also go into slow motion for a limited time to gain additional controls over them. Defeat all the enemies and keep your town safe at all cost.

Why similar: Strategy 45.2%, Action 27.6%, Adventure 27.1%

Crash and Burn Racing is a high impact racing game. You will be put behind the wheel of crazy vehicles that are fitted with over-the-top weaponry and power-ups such as a nitro chargers, bombs and homing missiles.

Network E.L.E.™ is an open-world, survival story set on Planet Mercury in 2184, an abandoned city — military base filled with deadly radiation. You play as Myorah, a NASA exploration pilot going after four Mercury-980 single board Space-VPX chips, which activate a dormant spaceship left within the city.

Why similar: Strategy 35.9%, Action 32.3%, Adventure 31.7%

"Indie wave-based defense game with exploration and resource management. Protect the castle, face hordes, and complete missions as the weather and day/night cycle change with each challenge."

Why similar: Strategy 31.3%, Action 21.9%, Adventure 19.7%, Action-Adventure 15.8%, Funny 11.4%

Ironsphere is a fast-paced top-down mech shooter set on a hostile moon. Fight giant insects and deadly machines, pilot 20+ customizable mechs, and balance speed, armor, and energy. Equip weapons, shields, and modules to survive brutal battles and claim victory.

Why similar: Strategy 38.4%, Action 27.2%, Action-Adventure 18.3%, Adventure 16%

You are Captain Carter, of the Space Beagle. Ahead lies an army lead by the scumbag Kaldor Seth, he will obliterate all who oppose him in his pursuit of power. Carefully manage your ships weapons and defenses to bring your enemies to their knees!

Why similar: Strategy 43.5%, Action 29.1%, Adventure 27.3%