- #1 NavalArt
97% matchVery Positive90% of 2,183 reviews2018
Dev: RigidbodyPub: RZ Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
Why similar: Naval Combat 19.3% ★, Naval 17.4% ★, Wargame 14.9%, Voxel 14.9% ★, Sandbox 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game offers deep naval construction tools and physics-based combat that closely mirror the creative freedom found in ShipCrafter.
- #2 From the Depths
96% matchVery Positive89% of 12,523 reviews2020
Dev: Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 40.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
Why similar: Naval 25.3% ★, Naval Combat 22.8% ★, Voxel 16.8% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for complex naval vehicle building, allowing you to construct massive warships block-by-block for intense campaign battles.
- #3 Waves of Steel
96% matchVery Positive91% of 414 reviews2023
Dev: TMA Games LLC
Windows · Linux
If you like warships but wish they could kickflip, Waves of Steel is for you! Build your own custom warship and embark on a sprawling campaign filled with enemy ships, planes, submarines, and bizarre superweapons. Fast-paced arcade naval action is here!
Why similar: Naval Combat 23.7% ★, Naval 23.4% ★, World War II 14.4% ★, Simulation 10%, Third-Person Shooter 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the arcade-style naval combat feel of ShipCrafter while providing extensive customization options for your warships.
- #4 Sea of Craft
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 455 reviews2023
Dev: Wizard Games
Windows
Hello! Captain! “Sea Of Craft” is a sandbox ocean-building game with realistic physics simulation. In “Sea of Craft”, you can build your exclusive ship with hundreds of materials, and explore intriguing stages on planet Beella as well as adventures of wonders in the great ocean!
Why similar: Naval 36.8% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Crafting 16.4%, Simulation 11.5%, 3D 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focusing on creative ship building and exploration, this game allows you to construct unique vessels to navigate and survive in an open-world environment.
- #5 Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
94% matchMixed61% of 7,751 reviews2023
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 81.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Why similar: Naval 30.2% ★, Naval Combat 22.5% ★, Wargame 17.8%, World War II 13% ★, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly detailed naval design interface paired with strategic campaign gameplay, perfect for those who enjoy the engineering aspect of ship combat.
- #6 Sprocket
94% matchVery Positive93% of 12,133 reviews2021
Dev: Hamish Dunn
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Carefully balance mobility, firepower and armour in a dedicated tank designer. Then uncarefully put them to the test in a series of combat scenarios progressing through the ages of the tank. Here, your limit is what you can fit inside your hull and turret while still being able to move forwards.
Why similar: Wargame 24.8%, Sandbox 23.9%, World War II 17.5% ★, Third-Person Shooter 17.4%, Physics 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on tanks, the core loop of designing vehicles from the ground up to meet specific combat challenges is identical to the ShipCrafter experience.
- #7 Dieselpunk Wars
93% matchMixed63% of 155 reviews2021
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!
Why similar: Naval 31.1% ★, Voxel 18.1% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Naval Combat 17.3% ★, Simulation 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: You can build complex vehicles from scratch using a variety of components to engage in physics-based destruction and combat.
- #8 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
91% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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.
Why similar: Naval 48.5% ★, Sandbox 32.3%, Third Person 10.3%, Physics 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep building system where you must design functional naval vessels to survive and complete missions in a harsh environment.
- #9 HighFleet
91% matchVery Positive88% of 7,155 reviews2021
Dev: Konstantin KoshutinPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?
Why similar: Simulation 46.3%, Stylized 23.3%, Physics 22.8%, Indie 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique blend of ship design and tactical combat within a challenging campaign, emphasizing the importance of modular component placement.
- #10 Dimensions: Dreadnought Architect
90% matchMixed55% of 199 reviews2023
Dev: Craft Theory
Windows
Unleash your creativity, design your dreadnought with a variety of modules, and have complete control over the function and style of each module. Command your battleship with wisdom and decisiveness. Gallop in the vast galaxy and destroy all enemies.
Why similar: Sandbox 48.4%, Physics 16.4%, Simulation 14.5%, PvE 9.8%, 3D 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines ship building with roguelite elements, challenging you to optimize your designs to survive increasingly difficult encounters.
- #11 TerraTech
89% matchVery Positive91% of 24,455 reviews2018
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.
Why similar: Sandbox 57.6%, Crafting 22.8%, Third Person 9.6%, Physics 7.7%, Indie 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game features modular vehicle construction and combat, allowing you to build and upgrade your creations as you explore and fight across the world.
- #12 Besiege
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,104 reviews2020
Dev: Spiderling Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Why similar: Naval Combat 35.6% ★, Sandbox 26.3%, Simulation 17.6%, Physics 9.2%, 3D 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a physics-based sandbox where you build machines to destroy targets, sharing the same satisfying 'build-and-test' loop as ShipCrafter.
- #13 Make Sail
89% matchMixed55% of 110 reviews2018
Dev: Popcannibal
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make boats and sail them. Survive an ocean of storms and beasts to find better pieces to make your ship bigger, faster, stronger, prettier, stranger, wilder: more yours.
Why similar: Naval 37.4% ★, Simulation 30.9%, Sandbox 17.5%, Physics 12.1%, Indie 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the physics of sailing and modular ship construction, offering a more relaxed but technically rewarding building experience.
- #14 SHIPS AT WAR
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 381 reviews2021
Dev: Golddorf Spieleentwicklung
Windows
Sink player-made battleships, aircraft carriers and submarines in this physics-based game. Use pre-built ships and sink the enemy by deploying aircraft, torpedoes, depth charges or shells. Or built your own ships in the extensive ship-editor.
Why similar: Naval 24% ★, Naval Combat 19% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Wargame 12.7%, World War II 11.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based naval combat game that emphasizes the destruction and tactical positioning of ships in a sandbox environment.
- #15 War on the Sea
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,150 reviews2021
Dev: Killerfish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Command ships, submarines and aircraft in the South Pacific during WWII.
Why similar: Naval 38.9% ★, Naval Combat 22.8% ★, World War II 17.9% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Wargame 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated naval combat simulator that provides a more strategic and historical take on the naval warfare found in ShipCrafter.
- #16 Boat Crew
85% matchVery Positive89% of 418 reviews2022
Dev: Tabbing TabbyPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Command your crew in Boat Crew, a gripping action-strategy experience amidst the Pacific War. Take charge of a PT boat against Imperial Japan, skillfully managing resources and personnel by any means necessary to ensure victory in this high-stakes conflict.
Why similar: Naval 23.3% ★, Naval Combat 18.6% ★, Wargame 16.1%, World War II 11.6% ★, Third-Person Shooter 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a more focused, action-oriented naval combat experience that complements the arcade feel of ShipCrafter.
- #17 SimplePlanes
84% matchVery Positive93% of 10,799 reviews2015
Dev: Jundroo, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
Why similar: Sandbox 64%, Physics 22.2%, 3D 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: This title allows for intricate vehicle design and physics-based flight, appealing to players who enjoy the engineering side of sandbox games.
- #18 Victory At Sea
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 574 reviews2014
Dev: Evil Twin Artworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Engage in epic RTS warfare across 3 huge campaigns as well as other battle modes. Create your own fleet of ships, pick your side and enter into World War II naval combat on a global scale.
Why similar: Naval 43.2% ★, Naval Combat 28.4% ★, World War II 17.4% ★, Simulation 11%
Why You'll Like It: A naval strategy game that captures the scale of large-scale naval combat, perfect for players who want to see their designs in action.
- #19 UBOAT
81% matchVery Positive85% of 25,707 reviews2024
Dev: Deep Water StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 50.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.
Why similar: Naval 32.1% ★, Naval Combat 24.5% ★, World War II 16.9% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deep naval simulation that focuses on submarine warfare, offering a more technical and immersive experience for naval enthusiasts.
- #20 Aircraft Carrier Survival
83% matchMixed60% of 1,187 reviews2022
Dev: Gambit Games StudioPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy game set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.
Why similar: Naval 31.6% ★, Naval Combat 29.7% ★, World War II 16.1% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the management and survival aspects of naval warfare, providing a different but complementary perspective to ship-focused games.
- #21 Carrier Command 2
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,658 reviews2021
Dev: GeometaPub: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!
Why similar: Wargame 57.4%, Simulation 33%, 3D 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on tactical naval combat and vehicle management, requiring you to command a carrier and its fleet in a strategic campaign.
- #22 Autocraft
84% matchMixed56% of 297 reviews2017
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create, Collect, and Crash in Autocraft, a physics destruction sandbox. Create your own cars, rockets, tanks, planes, boats, and more.
Why similar: Sandbox 40%, Simulation 26.1%, Casual 10.8%, Physics 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game allows you to build vehicles and machines from scratch, focusing on creative engineering and physics-based movement.
- #23 Aviassembly
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,303 reviews2025
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Why similar: Sandbox 40.3%, Simulation 17.8%, Crafting 17.2%, Physics 14.8%, Stylized 5.2%
- #24 Ship Explorer
80% matchVery Positive82% of 118 reviews2025
Dev: Turbine Room StudioPub: Seabank Digital Productions
Windows
You know their stories. Now it's time to step aboard! Board iconic ocean liner and warships from history like SS United States, Morro Castle and more as you explore and learn about the secrets that made them into legends.
Why similar: Naval 43.3% ★, World War II 19.5% ★, Simulation 15.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Third Person 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a more adventure-focused approach to naval simulation, allowing you to explore the seas with your own custom vessels.
- #25 Naval Battles Simulator
82% matchMixed53% of 66 reviews2020
Dev: Anarchy97 Games
Windows
Naval Battles Simulator is a WWII real-time strategy and simulation game.
Why similar: Simulation 51.9%, Naval 22.4% ★, Naval Combat 11.7% ★, World War II 7% ★, Indie 7%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward naval combat simulator that focuses on the tactical engagement of ships in various scenarios.
- #26 Main Assembly
79% matchVery Positive84% of 1,337 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Yolk GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
You’re the designer, engineer and architect if you can imagine it you can create it! Construct robots of any shape or size from eight-legged spider bots to eerie UFO contraptions.
Why similar: Sandbox 36.3%, Simulation 23.9%, Crafting 19%, Physics 12.3%, 3D 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers extreme freedom in vehicle construction, allowing you to build almost anything you can imagine using a robust component system.
- #27 Star Crafter
78% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Voxel 33.5% ★, Sandbox 24.6%, Simulation 20.8%, Crafting 19.8%, Indie 1.2%
- #28 MODERN NAVAL COMBAT
79% matchMixed59% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: 黑丝带制作组Pub: 电钮组
Windows
This game is a simulation real-time strategy game with the theme of modern naval warfare. Players can control all kinds of active naval equipment of the three camps, and use the common tactics and tactics of the navy in reality to start a fierce confrontation with the computer.
Why similar: Simulation 46.5%, Casual 25.4%, Naval Combat 21.9% ★, Indie 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This simulation focuses on contemporary naval warfare, offering a different technological era for your tactical combat needs.
- #29 Spaceflight Simulator
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,486 reviews2022
Dev: Team Curiosity ✦
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Spaceflight Simulator, you will get to build your rockets, plan launches and flights, attempt landings, deploy payloads and explore new worlds.
Why similar: Sandbox 49.2%, Simulation 29.2%, Crafting 12.9%, Physics 7.1%, Indie 1.6%
- #30 Seafarer: The Ship Sim
76% matchMixed68% of 1,733 reviews2025
Dev: astragon DevelopmentPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Embark on the ultimate maritime experience with Seafarer: The Ship Sim. Choose between careers, take the helm of a variety of ships, and expand your fleet. Navigate a vast open world and become immersed in the beautiful expanses and rolling waves.
Why similar: Naval 58.7% ★, Simulation 19.7%, Casual 10.4%, Arcade 5.7%, 3D 5.6%
- #31 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
77% matchMixed63% of 996 reviews2021
Dev: Soaring Pixels Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Sandbox 41.7%, Simulation 26.2%, Crafting 18%, Physics 6%, 3D 5.8%
- #32 Avorion
75% matchVery Positive90% of 14,288 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Sandbox 29.8%, Voxel 28.5% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Third Person 12.2%, 3D 6.4%
- #33 Starship EVO
75% matchVery Positive84% of 1,210 reviews2020
Dev: Moonfire Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
Why similar: Sandbox 33.5%, Simulation 30.6%, Voxel 26.6% ★, Physics 4.9%, Indie 4.4%
- #34 Ship Graveyard Simulator
74% matchMixed65% of 2,179 reviews2021
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!
Why similar: Naval 45.7% ★, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 15.7%, Crafting 10%, Physics 6.8%
- #35 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
71% matchVery Positive95% of 12,431 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Simulation 85.6%, Indie 14.4%
- #36 Yacht Mechanic Simulator
76% matchMostly Negative22% of 204 reviews2022
Dev: Punch Punk GamesPub: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Build your own yacht empire! Renovate old yachts, patch their hulls, fix their engines, and add new parts. Design and install beautiful interiors of your vessels. Pilot your ships and check how they handle the water. A completely new installment in the famous ‘Mechanic Simulator’ universe!
Why similar: Naval 51.4% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Third Person 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Casual 8.5%
- #37 Tank Mechanic Simulator
72% matchVery Positive88% of 8,976 reviews2020
Dev: DeGenerals S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Renovate & build II World War tanks. Experience highly detailed & realistic simulation game. Take tanks fully apart by using different tools. Transform them from rusty and ruined to fully working. Check them on the training ground, sell or put into your own museum.
Why similar: World War II 40.4% ★, Simulation 27.4%, Crafting 17.6%, Casual 11.5%, Indie 3.1%
- #38 PIRATECRAFT
74% matchMixed58% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Game for games
Windows
PIRATECRAFT is a game battle-royale (survival, action, first person shooter) for single or multiplayer game
Why similar: Voxel 31% ★, Sandbox 28.4%, Crafting 15%, Simulation 13.4%, Stylized 6.8%
- #39 StarMade
73% matchMixed68% of 2,981 reviews2014
Dev: Schine GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 43.2%, Voxel 33.1% ★, Simulation 12%, Crafting 9.9%, Indie 1.8%
- #40 Dieselpunk Wars Prologue
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 172 reviews2020
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Dieselpunk Wars: Prologue is a free version of an epic vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 140 elements to build an awesome war machine. Build vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat!
Why similar: Simulation 33.6%, Naval 24.5% ★, Sandbox 23.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Physics 6.5%
- #41 SpaceKraft!
70% matchVery Positive91% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Game Dev Garage
Windows
Gather crystals, repair/run crafting facilities, upgrade your spaceship, build machines, explore the open world, find your way back to mother earth.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.2%, Simulation 28.6%, Physics 15.2%, Stylized 13%
- #42 Age Of Warbots
68% matchVery Positive86% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: VDimension
Windows
A sandbox battle simulator game where you can build your own shape-shifting warbots, program their AI, and watch them smash each other up on the battlefield! Join the battles yourself by taking control of the warbots! Use Steam Workshop to check out warbots created by players from around the world!
Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, Wargame 26.3%, Simulation 17.3%, Physics 9%, Third Person 8.1%
- #43 CubeGun
73% matchMixed60% of 321 reviews2014
Dev: candyrocketstudio
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A Sandbox Multiplayer Airship Shooting Game.Design battleships with weapons in a "rock paper scissors" mechanic.Shoot or Collide enemy ships into pieces.Challenge players all over the world with ships designed by yourself!
Why similar: Sandbox 78.2%, Crafting 15.1%, Indie 6.7%
- #44 Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age
67% matchVery Positive90% of 5,484 reviews2024
Dev: Triassic GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.
Why similar: Naval Combat 39.9% ★, Naval 38.7% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Wargame 2.8%, Sandbox 1.9%
- #45 Raft
66% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Crafting 42.7%, Sandbox 42.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Indie 1.5%
- #46 Silent Depth 2: Pacific
69% matchMixed61% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: MicroProse Software
Windows
Silent Depth 2: Pacific is a lite sub-sim. You enter the Silent Service at the command of a Gato class submarine on War Patrols during World War 2. How long will you survive, and ultimately how much tonnage you sink is down to skill and cunning.
Why similar: Naval 32.3% ★, Naval Combat 21.5% ★, Wargame 16.1%, World War II 15.1% ★, Simulation 7%
- #47 Ship Graveyard Simulator: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive86% of 906 reviews2021
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!
Why similar: Naval 33.2% ★, Sandbox 26.3%, Simulation 20.2%, Casual 11.8%, Crafting 6.1%
- #48 Escape The Pacific
71% matchMixed68% of 754 reviews2018
Dev: Gamers4Gamers Team
Windows
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Why similar: Sandbox 44.3%, Simulation 28.9%, Crafting 26.8%
- #49 World of Warships
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 153,508 reviews2017
Dev: Wargaming Group Limited
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 82.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 600 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
Why similar: Naval Combat 30.3% ★, Naval 29.3% ★, Third-Person Shooter 14.3%, World War II 13.7% ★, Simulation 9.1%
- #50 Hydra Heli
66% matchVery Positive94% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: Ideas Per SecondPub: Big Play Games
Windows
Hydra Heli is a short, relaxing incremental game about sinking battleships with an overpowered helicopter. Control a swarm of unstoppable torpedoes, annihilate armadas, collect shards, and utilize the Depot to boost damage, increase firepower, and unlock new regions.
Why similar: Naval 44% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Minimalist 11.9%, World War II 11.6% ★, Casual 11.3%
- #51 Ship Simulator Realistic
69% matchMixed58% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: Gregory Nikolaidis
Windows
Ship Simulator Realistic experience the real simulation. The game will be based on a free roam aspect to explore the Greece Scenery in a physics based game , realistic handling and many more features.
Why similar: Simulation 53.5%, Casual 26.8%, 3D 9.4%, Physics 8.1%, Indie 2.2%
- #52 The Last Caretaker
63% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Sandbox 39.1%, Simulation 26.1%, Crafting 22%, Physics 12.8%
- #53 Space Engineers 2
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Sandbox 42.7%, Simulation 25.4%, Crafting 15.8%, Physics 13.5%, Indie 2.7%
- #54 Model Builder: Complete Edition
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,276 reviews2022
Dev: Moonlit S.A.Pub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Become a master model maker in the Complete Edition of this beloved crafting simulator, featuring all DLCs. Assemble, customize and display your creations, whether you’re a veteran or a novice. Get building, and get creative!
Why similar: Sandbox 40.4%, World War II 24% ★, Simulation 18.7%, Casual 9.7%, 3D 7.1%
- #55 Rise of Piracy
64% matchMostly Positive80% of 355 reviews2026
Dev: IrishJohnGamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
The perfect blend of Action, Adventure and RTS. Begin your journey as the lowly captain of a small vessel. End as the commander of a threatening fleet. Rise to glory how you see fit. Trade, fight, recruit, grow, pillage, ally, destroy & conquer.
Why similar: Naval 38.3% ★, Naval Combat 26.7% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Simulation 13.7%, 3D 3.6%
