Games Like Windrose

Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Why similar: Pirates 31.2% ★, Sailing 25.9% ★, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person island hopping, sailing, crafting, treasure hunting, and pirate fantasy make it one of the most direct Windrose-style alternatives.

Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!

Why similar: Pirates 23.5% ★, Naval Combat 18% ★, Sailing 17.4% ★, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is still the closest overall match, combining pirate ships, open-world survival crafting, base building, exploration, and online co-op in a large shared world.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.7%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great fit if your favorite parts of Windrose were co-op exploration, building, crafting, and action-heavy PvE in a dangerous world.

Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.

Why similar: Naval Combat 35.3% ★, Pirates 33.6% ★, Sailing 7.1% ★, Open World 6.8%, Exploration 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It leans far more into naval action than survival, but the pirate setting, open seas, ship combat, and plundering loop strongly overlap with Windrose’s maritime side.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While Viking-themed instead of pirate-themed, it nails the same survival-building-co-op loop with meaningful sailing, exploration, and tough boss progression.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival crafting, base building, realm exploration, and tougher action-RPG combat echo Windrose’s PvE adventure focus even without the pirate theme.

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: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Base Building 10.5%, PvE 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its water-heavy survival sandbox, scavenging, building, and co-op PvE create a similar feel of surviving and expanding in a world shaped by the sea.

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: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Online Co-Op 8.4%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the ocean-survival side of Windrose, Raft offers co-op crafting and base building centered around life at sea and constant resource-driven progression.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 14.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Windrose’s blend of survival systems, base building, co-op PvE, and boss-centric action combat, just in a gothic instead of pirate setting.

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 9.9%, PvE 8.6%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers co-op survival crafting, building, exploration, and mythic boss encounters for players who liked Windrose’s PvE progression and combat challenge.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the better picks for players who mainly want more co-op survival crafting, base construction, and PvE-focused progression.

Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.

Why similar: Pirates 42.8% ★, Crafting 16.3%, Massively Multiplayer 13.7%, Open World 8.9%, PvE 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although post-apocalyptic rather than historical, it captures the same ship-focused open-world progression, crafting, and PvE/PvP-at-sea appeal.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks ships and piracy, yet its large-scale multiplayer survival crafting and dangerous open-world PvE progression should appeal to Windrose players who want a broader survival sandbox.

Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.

Why similar: Pirates 22.1% ★, Naval Combat 21.5% ★, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Sailing 16.1% ★, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more direct pirate sandbox option with swordplay, exploration, and sailing that lines up well with Windrose’s land-and-sea fantasy.

Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!

Why similar: Pirates 62.4% ★, Sailing 23% ★, Open World 7.5%, Third Person 3.2%, Action-Adventure 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This one is a strong thematic match thanks to its pirate setting, ship combat, boarding, exploration, and mix of sea and land action.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 22.2%, Crafting 21.3%, Online Co-Op 20.8%, Building 13.8%, Open World 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong choice if you enjoyed building up settlements, gathering resources, and surviving in an open world with grounded melee combat.

Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Pirates 24.2% ★, Sailing 10.8% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The original Salt shares the same island exploration, crafting, survival, and sailing foundation that makes Salt 2 such a natural Windrose companion.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting, base building, exploration, and PvE progression make it a good match for the systemic sandbox side of Windrose.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes co-op survival, building, exploration, and PvE progression in a way that scratches a similar sandbox-adventure itch.

Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.

Why similar: Naval Combat 41.9% ★, Pirates 41.5% ★, Sailing 9.9% ★, Open World 3.3%, Exploration 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is lighter and more sandboxy, but its naval exploration, pirate combat, and co-op sailing make it a good pick for the seafaring half of Windrose.

Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.

Why similar: Pirates 46.1% ★, Naval Combat 38.6% ★, Sailing 11.9% ★, Open World 2.2%, Action 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is much more match-based and combat-focused, but few games capture coordinated pirate ship battles and boarding actions this well.

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: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Crafting 14%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good fit for players who want more age-of-exploration survival, crafting, island discovery, and seaborne progression in a grounded setting.

Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.

Why similar: Pirates 23% ★, Naval Combat 20% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.3% ★, Sailing 14.8% ★, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: As a smaller slice of pirate survival and swordplay, it is still worth a look if you want more rough-edged first-person pirate sandbox action.

「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, PvE 13.1%, Open World 9.9%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival crafting, base building, exploration, and action combat in a way that overlaps nicely with Windrose’s broader gameplay structure.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the very different theme, it offers excellent co-op survival crafting, base building, exploration, and boss-oriented PvE progression.

Set sail in World of Sea Battle, an action-packed open-world MMO in the Golden Age of Sail! Command historic ships, battle in PvP & PvE, shape the economy, and engage in territorial guild wars in your quest for glory across the high seas!

Why similar: Naval Combat 24.7% ★, Pirates 23.6% ★, Sailing 17.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 7.5%, Crafting 6.1%

Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.4%, Crafting 17.4%, Survival 14%, Building 13.7%, Open World 9.7%

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Online Co-Op 16%, Survival 13%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its island exploration, crafting, base building, and co-op survival loop make it a solid lighter-toned alternative to Windrose’s sandbox elements.

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8.3%

Or were you deaf or were you blind when you left your two fine legs behind, Or was it sailing on the sea when you got the cannonball to your knee, I too was young and I was slim and I had a leg for every limb, But now I’ve got no legs at all, they were both shot away by a cannonball.

Why similar: Naval Combat 30.8% ★, Pirates 29.7% ★, Sailing 25% ★, Massively Multiplayer 6%, Open World 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: If the age-of-sail combat and ship command parts of Windrose are what you want more of, Naval Action is one of the most focused alternatives on Steam.

Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.

Why similar: Sailing 23.8% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Building 8%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 13.7%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 11.4%

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 20.1% ★, Naval Combat 14.9% ★, Open World Survival Craft 12.2% ★, Sailing 10.7% ★, Online Co-Op 7.2%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.5%, Building 8.9%

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 10.8%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 27.6%, Base Building 21.6%, Crafting 21%, Open World 17.9%, Exploration 10.3%

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Sailing 20.6% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 11.8%, Building 11.2%

Set sail in the open seas and plunder solo, PvE or PvP. Trade goods for ship upgrades or equipments to hunt the Kraken, all in the same Server. Dominate by yourself or with maties. Arrrr for free!

Why similar: Pirates 25.3% ★, Naval Combat 24.7% ★, Sailing 17.1% ★, PvE 6%, Massively Multiplayer 6%

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 22.8%, Survival 20%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 11.8%, Building 11.8%

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 8%

Forge your legend in a forgotten realm! Farever is an online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Alone or with friends, embark on an epic journey together! Explore wild lands and dangerous dungeons, craft powerful gear, and carve your path through dynamic combat and platforming.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.5%, Massively Multiplayer 18.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 11.6%, Exploration 9.2%

Command the seas in Maelstrom! Engage in fast-paced naval battles with powerful warships and colossal sea monsters. Customize your fleet and dominate the Abyssal Ocean. Are you ruthless enough to survive?

Why similar: Pirates 30.8% ★, Sailing 22.9% ★, Naval Combat 22.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 7.5%, Online Co-Op 6.8%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.1%, PvE 5.6%

Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9%

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 8.7%

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Crafting 30.4%, Building 24.1%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World 11.3%

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: Pirates 32.4% ★, Naval Combat 29.6% ★, Sailing 23.6% ★, Open World 4.8%, Exploration 4.8%

Fight for survival in Blazing Sails, a fast-paced pirate PvP game! Create your own unique pirate and ship. Band together with other players to command your mighty vessel! Explore different game-modes, maps, weapons, ship types and more while eliminating other crews in epic battles on land and sea!

Why similar: Naval Combat 35.7% ★, Pirates 33% ★, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 7.3%, Open World 5.8%

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9.4%

Become a Mighty Captain in a Age of sail naval combat game, set in all of the Seven Seas! Sail the entire world: conquering, boarding, plundering, exploring and trading along the way! Gather your crew, ready your ship, hoist your sails and enter a world of swashbuckling and piracy!

Why similar: Naval Combat 30.2% ★, Pirates 29.9% ★, Sailing 22.3% ★, Open World 5.7%, Exploration 4.2%

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Sailing 22.3% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Survival 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.8%

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

Why similar: Pirates 39.7% ★, Naval Combat 35.3% ★, Survival 9.6%, Sailing 4.8% ★, Open World 4.1%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.3% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Building 7.4%

An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 8.5%

Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.

Why similar: Pirates 37.8% ★, Sailing 22.8% ★, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Open World 8.4%, PvP 4.5%