Games Like Shipwreck

Master Key is a top-down adventure game with a strong focus on item-based exploration and secrets. Embark on a journey to discover what that key could be used for and meet colorful characters!

Why similar: Adventure 35%, Pixel Graphics 33.8%, Top-Down 22.6%, RPG 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A perfect match for retro top-down exploration with a focus on discovery and minimalist design.

Retrieve your weapons, face bosses to save your dog in a retro adventure focused on 3 dungeons. Finish the Story mode to unlock the Survivor mode: a 50-floor "Death Tower". You'll enjoy classic mechanics, charming visual style, and an enchanting soundtrack.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29%, Top-Down 28%, Adventure 25.2%, Indie 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: This short, punchy adventure features the exact top-down island exploration and combat loop found in Shipwreck.

Ocean’s Heart is an epic top-down action RPG in which you explore a beautiful archipelago as a young woman named Tilia. Take on contracts to fight monsters, descend deep into ancient dungeons, defeat menacing foes, and unravel the mystery of Ocean’s Heart. All done in beautiful, bright pixel art.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 46.5%, Top-Down 31.9%, RPG 21.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic Zelda-style top-down adventure that captures the same sense of island-hopping exploration and dungeon crawling.

Rush to Adventure is a retro fantasy speedrunning adventure. Inspired by classic NES titles like Zelda, Mario and Castlevania. You awaken on the shore of a cursed island. Your only way off the island is to fight the monsters and lift the curse.

Why similar: Adventure 37.9%, Indie 28.5%, RPG 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-pixel action-adventure game that emphasizes exploration and combat in a way that aligns closely with Shipwreck.

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

Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Indie 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 22%, RPG 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: An island-focused adventure game that incorporates RPG elements and exploration similar to the seed game.

Explore a huge open game world in classic action-adventure fashion! Prove your worth by fighting through monster-infested dungeons to save the Kingdom of Blossom!

Why similar: Adventure 30.5%, Indie 28.6%, Pixel Graphics 27.4%, Top-Down 8.4%, RPG 5%

Why You'll Like It: This game delivers a charming, retro-pixel experience that mirrors the classic action-adventure feel of the seed game.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 61.7%, RPG 38.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a compelling progression system centered on being stranded and surviving on a mysterious island.

The legendary hero is dead, and a strange glitch is spreading across the kingdom. Explore dangerous dungeons, and defeat the eight archangels to restore order to an unraveling world in this epic action-adventure RPG.

Why similar: Adventure 29.1%, Pixel Graphics 27.8%, Top-Down 18.4%, Indie 15.8%, RPG 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, retro-styled adventure that features procedural dungeon crawling and a distinct 8-bit aesthetic.

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.6%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 17%, RPG 14.4%, Top-Down 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game with pixel-graphics that emphasizes the challenge of exploring and surviving on an island.

Wanderlust Adventures is an online, free-roaming, open world, action adventure RPG. Join fellow heroes online, explore vast and deadly landscapes, and capture companions to aid you in your quest. Forge powerful items, salvage artifacts, and crush the souls of menacing foes!

Why similar: Adventure 39%, Indie 25.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, RPG 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, action-RPG that provides a similar retro feel and focus on exploration.

Adventuress Ittle Dew and her sidekick Tippsie crash onto a strange island, filled with loot and mysterious inhabitants. It quickly dawns on the duo that this might become their biggest adventure yet.Ittle Dew boils down the classic adventure formula until there is only fun left.

Why similar: Adventure 53.5%, Indie 35.8%, Top-Down 7.9%, RPG 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the puzzle-heavy, top-down exploration style that defines the core gameplay of classic action-adventures.

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Pixel Graphics 28.8%, Indie 21.1%, RPG 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused adventure game with pixel-graphics that centers on exploring and crafting on an island.

Indie Puzzle Game

Why similar: Adventure 53.8%, Indie 46.2%

Why You'll Like It: An indie adventure game that shares the island-themed setting and exploration focus of the seed game.

A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!

Why similar: Adventure 28.8%, Pixel Graphics 27.1%, Top-Down 24.8%, Indie 19.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a surreal, top-down, retro-pixel exploration experience that feels very similar in tone and perspective.

Secrets of Grindea is an old-school Action RPG with co-op support for up to 4 players. Journey through fantastical lands and battle tons of different enemies and bosses in your quest for truth, friendship and, above all, finding the world’s rarest treasures!

Why similar: Adventure 31.5%, Indie 19.8%, Pixel Graphics 19.2%, Top-Down 17.7%, RPG 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A polished top-down action-RPG that captures the same vibrant pixel-art style and combat-heavy exploration.

Embark on an epic journey in The Stranded Traveler, a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure game where you take on the role of a traveler stranded on a mysterious island. Explore dangerous environments, fight fierce enemies, and defeat challenging bosses!

Why similar: Adventure 87.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the adventure and exploration of being stranded in a 2D world.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 31.9%, Adventure 31.2%, Top-Down 20.4%, RPG 16.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down dungeon crawling with a satisfying loop of exploration and resource management.

A rogue-like pirate adventure game. Explore a skeleton-riddled archipelago in search of a giant monster. Find treasures, weapons and secrets. Can you defeat the terrible kraken?

Why similar: Adventure 44.6%, Indie 34.1%, RPG 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: An indie adventure RPG that features a pirate-themed island setting and classic top-down combat.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 39.3%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 25.1%, RPG 8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down, island-based game that focuses on exploration, crafting, and progression in a charming pixel-art world.

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Adventure 59.1%, Indie 40.9%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game that centers on exploring procedurally generated islands and surviving the elements.

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Why similar: Top-Down 39.2%, Indie 32.9%, RPG 27.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more modern, it perfectly captures the spirit of top-down, exploration-based adventure and dungeon discovery.

Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.

Why similar: Adventure 52.3%, Indie 38.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the island survival and exploration aspects that define the core premise of Shipwreck.

You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.

Why similar: Adventure 46.2%, Indie 35.7%, RPG 18.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric indie adventure that shares the focus on exploration and narrative-driven progression.

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas combines captivating storytelling, breathtaking 3D visuals and exciting gameplay into one epic action-adventure experience. In the game you explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 50.2%, Indie 28.1%, RPG 21.6%

Why You'll Like It: An island-hopping adventure game that emphasizes exploration and combat in a top-down perspective.

A top-down action-adventure game as you collect & solve puzzles in order for you to explore & unravel this mysterious world.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 39.5%, Adventure 39.4%, RPG 21.1%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-graphics action-adventure game that emphasizes exploration and lore-rich discovery.

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: Adventure 52.5%, RPG 47.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that centers on building and exploration within a pirate-themed island setting.

Just a Dream is a fast paced top down action game. You enter a world filled with your worst nightmares and must escape. As you fight across your dream from level to level, you encounter the very things that you dread every night.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: An indie action game with pixel-graphics that shares the retro, top-down aesthetic of the seed game.

Treasure Adventure Game casts you in the role of a young boy who lands on an island that is a fragment of what was once a continent, destroyed in the war between a demon and a wizard.

Why similar: Adventure 51%, Pixel Graphics 25.9%, Indie 23%

Throw yourself into a world of fantasy and create your own character to embark on an epic high seas adventure of your own making.

Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Indie 29.3%, RPG 20%, Pixel Graphics 13%

Why You'll Like It: An indie RPG that focuses on exploration and survival in a pirate-themed world.

Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

Why similar: Adventure 33.4%, Indie 26.1%, Top-Down 16.8%, RPG 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: An indie adventure RPG that focuses on survival and exploration on a remote island.

(Sandbox Game) You play as a pirate on a remote island, surviving alone or with other players as you battle hostile skeletons. Construct a shelter and gather resources to fortify your survival.

Why similar: Adventure 47.4%, RPG 32.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.3%

A colorful mini-island adventure inspired by the handheld classics, built to be finished in an evening. Fight monsters, solve puzzles, and delve into four perilous dungeons.

Why similar: Adventure 29.1%, Top-Down 27.5%, Pixel Graphics 25.2%, Indie 18.2%

Set sail for adventure with a paper hat on your head and a magical shrinking boat in your pocket, in search of legendary treasures! Solve tricky puzzles, battle formidable foes, piece together clues and dig up secrets to uncover your own shrouded history as you explore this sprawling open world.

Why similar: Adventure 57.7%, Indie 42.3%

Defeat legions of pirates and marine beasts to emerge victorious in Ruiga Pirates: Cursed Seas! Adventure with survival elements. Customize your ship, prepare for barrages from myriad foes, and navigate the perilous waters of a monster realm. Embark on this thrilling journey and Play for Free now!

Why similar: Adventure 38%, Top-Down 24.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.8%, Indie 17%

Defeat legions of pirates and marine beasts to emerge victorious! Ruiga Pirates: First Survivors is an adventure with survival elements. Customize your ship, brace yourself for a bullets from myriad foes! Navigate the perilous waters of a ghost-infested realm and Play for Free now!

Why similar: Adventure 40.6%, Pixel Graphics 23.5%, Top-Down 19.9%, Indie 16%

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: Adventure 44.3%, Indie 32.6%, Pixel Graphics 23.1%

Stranded on a beautiful island, craft tools, battle beasts, and uncover mythical weapons. Fight to survive, conquer ancient ruins, and master the wild in a high-stakes adventure. Will you prevail? - Created by a UC Santa Cruz Student

Why similar: Adventure 42.4%, Pixel Graphics 37.6%, RPG 20%

Time Thief is an action adventure game where leaving your village makes the clock tick. Manage your time to stay alive, stealing seconds from creatures around its overworld with your sword.

Why similar: Adventure 40.3%, Pixel Graphics 28%, Top-Down 18.4%, Indie 13.3%

No Name Village is a top-down adventure rpg game, set in a peaceful village on the brink of being swallowed by the Black Sea. Play as a young boy, explore the world, battle monsters, and uncover the secrets behind the looming disaster.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.4%, Top-Down 23%, Adventure 20.2%, RPG 14.5%, Indie 11.8%

Abort, Retry, Fail is a top-down roguelike action adventure in which you play as a lazy programmer that has to generate his own weapon and shoot his way through hordes of enemies. Are you brave enough to help him escape from computer hell of Windows 98?

Why similar: Top-Down 33.4%, Pixel Graphics 24.2%, Adventure 24.2%, Indie 18.2%

Survive on a mysterious island after a plane crash! Solve match-3 puzzles, restore your camp, craft tools, grow crops, explore jungles and lagoons, uncover hidden treasures and reveal the island’s secrets!

Why similar: Adventure 100%

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: Pixel Graphics 62.4%, RPG 37.6%

A curse has befallen the Crescent Isle and it's up to you to save it. Luckily the curse has transformed your people into helpful monsters such as drills, blobs, icicles, and gravity flipping...things. With your monster subjects in hand you'll have to drill through rocks, maneuver through spiky terrain, freeze water to pass over the sea,...

Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%

OneBit Adventure is a casual turn-based roguelike where you adventure as far as possible to level up and battle against rogue monsters. Your primary goal in OneBit Adventure is to survive and loot. Choose from a variety of classes and build the ultimate class.

Why similar: Adventure 54.1%, RPG 45.9%

Traveller's Hymn is a top-down, grid-based, open-world adventure game. Explore a vast land, battle monsters, collect loot, help locals and cook hearty meals while unraveling the mystery behind the land's curse.

Why similar: Adventure 45.3%, Pixel Graphics 28.4%, RPG 26.3%

After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.

Why similar: Adventure 34.1%, Pixel Graphics 29.2%, Indie 18.8%, RPG 18%

A recovered copy of a lost game from the late 1990s about a Beaver named Bucky and his friends trying to escape from an island they crashed upon.

Why similar: Adventure 54.1%, Pixel Graphics 45.9%

bitDungeon II is fast action-adventure game with a giant overworld to explore. You are a spirit in an undead world of demons. Your "loved one's " grave has been desecrated. Fight through these corrupted lands, and bring peace to her soul.

Why similar: Adventure 28.5%, Pixel Graphics 27.7%, Indie 24.1%, RPG 19.7%

In Demon Peak, you play as the nameless warrior, trapped inside the depths of an unholy Mountain. Explore the mysterious and perilous enviroments, fight against a multitude of different enemies and gather magical abilities to overcome the Mountain's evil inhabitants.

Why similar: Adventure 46%, Indie 33.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.7%

The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets

Why similar: Adventure 58%, Indie 42%

Here, you can freely sail your ship, explore the endless ocean, and find hidden islands and treasures!

Why similar: Adventure 64.5%, RPG 30.3%, Indie 5.2%

Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 100%

IIslands of War is a 2D roguelike where you build floating islands out of blocks and modules. Travel through different realms to various locations to collect powerful items, shop for items, forge your items to become more powerful, and battle the Dark Order.

Why similar: Adventure 55.7%, Indie 44.3%

Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Why similar: Adventure 76.2%, RPG 23.8%

Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

The world's been flooded, and all you have is your Super Raft Boat. Can you reach The Final Island?

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 48.3%, Top-Down 42.9%, Indie 8.9%

The player finds himself on a desert island, where he meets the natives, carves a home, builds a ship and ultimately sails back home.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Team up with friends and dive into adventure! Rescue dwellers, let them work for you so they farm resources and protect you from enemies. Upgrade your equipment, explore new lands, complete quests and fight evil with glory!

Why similar: Adventure 58.5%, Top-Down 41.5%