Games Like Ocean Punk

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony-sim where you manage a town of survivors on a floating collection of salvaged garbage in a flooded world.

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Pirates 14% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder tasks you with managing a floating settlement, requiring careful resource distribution and expansion on the open water.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 31.6%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 16.4%, Open World 13.6%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive ocean survival game where you build and expand a floating base while scavenging resources from the sea.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.3%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep city-building experience set entirely on the ocean floor, focusing on managing underwater infrastructure and resources.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Survival 21%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the post-apocalyptic ocean survival theme perfectly with its focus on underwater exploration and modular base building.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While set in space, its colony-sim mechanics and ship-building survival loops are mechanically very similar to the core of Ocean Punk.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Base Building 23.4%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Exploration 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for underwater survival, offering unparalleled exploration and base-building mechanics in a mysterious aquatic world.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Moddable 26.3% ★, Survival 25.9%, Management 14.1%, Sci-fi 12%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tense submarine survival game that captures the claustrophobic and dangerous nature of exploring a hostile, alien ocean.

In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.

Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Simulation 22.1%, Building 15.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony-sim that puts you on a small raft in an endless ocean, requiring you to manage hunger, thirst, and building materials.

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 12%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and colony management with a coastal focus, requiring you to build a base while defending against threats.

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 9.2%, Survival 8%

Why You'll Like It: A thematic match that focuses on post-apocalyptic survival and management within a sandbox environment.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the premier resource-management colony-sim, providing the deep technical systems that fans of the genre will appreciate.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 16%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This steampunk survival game features a mobile base that you must upgrade and manage, mirroring the steam-powered marvels of Ocean Punk.

A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 11%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game where you pilot a customizable airship, providing a similar sense of mobile base management.

Diluvion is a 3D deep sea, Jules Verne inspired, exploration game with RPG elements and thrilling submarine combat. As the Captain of your own vessel, you must grow and manage your crew as you search for the secrets of the past in a hauntingly beautiful flooded world.

Why similar: Adventure 41.2%, Indie 26.8%, Open World 26.3%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric underwater adventure that focuses on submarine exploration and survival in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world.

The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 43.3%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 12.5%, Open World 11.2%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a beautiful, mysterious archipelago where you must craft, sail, and survive using primitive technology.

You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.

Why similar: Pirates 36.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 10.8%, Survival 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines pirate-themed survival with building mechanics in an open-world setting.

Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a pirate fantasy world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events. Command your pirate crew, upgrade your ship and make tactical decisions to beat the boss and save the world… or die trying.

Why similar: Pirates 60.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Strategy 10.6%, 2D 5.4%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging strategy game that focuses on survival and resource gathering in a harsh, pixel-art ocean environment.

The old world has drowned after the Second Flood. Now, only few survivors are fighting for the new gold - clean water, wood and soil. Become a ship's captain, keep your crew alive and create your sea empire!

Why similar: Pirates 39.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique blend of naval strategy and survival in a world where the sea has swallowed the land.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 33.9%, Open World 20.3%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game emphasizes island-hopping and ocean navigation, capturing the isolation of being lost at sea.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Moddable 13.6% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 8.9%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim with deep base-building and survival elements that rewards careful planning and resource efficiency.

Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Why similar: Building 19.1%, Sandbox 18.4%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 14.6%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features unique water-manipulation mechanics and base building.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Moddable 14.7% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate colony-sim experience, providing the complex management and emergent storytelling that defines the genre.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Resource Management 14.3%, Survival 13%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a frozen wasteland, it provides the intense, high-stakes resource management and survival decision-making found in Ocean Punk.

Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.

Why similar: Pirates 26.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a flooded world that focuses on building and maintaining a base on the water.

Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.

Why similar: Pirates 51.3% ★, Sandbox 23.4%, Open World 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Simulation 6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox game that captures the pirate theme with pixel graphics and ship-building mechanics.

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.8%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 8.3%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 9.5%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a strong focus on base-building and survival management in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Crab God is an atmospheric underwater strategy game. Guide your Crabling colony through wild ocean depths, and defend the egg of the next Crab God.Restore and protect diverse coral reefs, making a difference in the real world as you progress in-game. Make waves, praise the claw!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Resource Management 15%, Survival 12.5%, Management 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater strategy game that tasks you with managing a colony and protecting your ecosystem.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Moddable 13.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that focuses on base-building and survival against environmental and hostile threats.

An exciting steampunk adventure with strategy and RPG elements. Fight pirates, explore the seabed, build your own battle island and set out into the vast world ocean in search of a mythical continent!

Why similar: Strategy 33.5%, Simulation 33%, Adventure 20.5%, Base Building 13%

Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

Why similar: Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.7%, Open World 9.4%

Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.7%

Capture islands, sink ships, defend your towns, and discover an exciting world full of adventure.

Why similar: Pirates 76.2% ★, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A pirate-themed adventure that incorporates survival and management elements as you sail between islands.

Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.

Why similar: Pirates 39.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, Resource Management 11%, Management 8.5%, Base Building 5.8%

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.2%

Dive The Depths is an action-roguelike set beneath the ocean's surface. As a humble diver, you must navigate the world filled with bizarre sea creatures, submerged ruins, and forgotten histories. Can you conquer the depths and unravel the secrets that hidden beneath the waves?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 41%, 2D 19.6%, Adventure 16.5%, Singleplayer 13.7%, Indie 9.2%

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Sandbox 9.1%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Management 8.6%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 12.1%, Survival 11.6%, Management 9.1%

This is a world of oceans, islands and ships. Players will start their own journey from Faro, facing an impermanent ocean and awkward opponents, and gradually build a strong fleet with wisdom and luck. The chaotic seas and tempting treasures, under the guidance of the banner, work hard for survival！

Why similar: Pirates 57% ★, Open World 15.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Strategy 9.5%, 2D 5.7%

An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 9.6%

How long do you survive on a small island in the middle of a flooded world?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 12.5%, Exploration 8.4%

You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!

Why similar: Pirates 44.1% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Building 12.6%, Survival 11.6%, Exploration 5.7%

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Building 26.3%, Base Building 20.4%, Resource Management 16.8%, Sandbox 15%, Open World 12.1%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 6.7%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Management 9%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 10.7%

Set sail and join yer crew in search of treasure and glory!

Why similar: Pirates 49.7% ★, Colony Sim 27.7%, Simulation 6.3%, Building 4.6%, Exploration 4.5%

Go from humble beginnings to a feared pirate captain in this seafaring open-world adventure! Enhance your reputation as you take on bounties, upgrade your ship, hire a crew and search for treasure, or just go fishing instead!

Why similar: Pirates 58.1% ★, Open World 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Exploration 6.4%, Strategy 3.7%

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 6.9%

Save the world by fishing! This is a brand new action RPG game where you stand on an adventure to fish the Sea'Az, the marine life of this world, in a vast pixel world. This is not a peaceful fishing game. The destruction of the world is imminent....

Why similar: Open World 43.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Survival 15.5%, 2D 10.6%, Adventure 6.4%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.7%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Base Building 14%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.7%

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Survival 17.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 13.2%, Open World 11.2%

Opportunity is near. Follow clues, solve the puzzles, and stay persistent in the chase of a new way of life. Explore, survive, and thrive in this open world adventure story.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 13.1%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 12.1%

Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 9.4%, 2D 7.4%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 12.5%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 9.4%