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2019PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable71 % positive24.99 €

You command a sailing ship and its crew through a wide sea world that responds to your choices. Its tactical naval battles against ships, forts and sea monsters are demanding, and the look draws on classic painted maritime scenes.

  • Historical setting
  • Deep systems to master
  • Open world
  • Tactical depth

The closest matches for Abandon Ship are Crusader Kings II, Sea Dogs and Europa Universalis IV. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Abandon Ship special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Crusader Kings II

85 %Match

2012PCSteam Deck playable90 % positive4.99 €

  • Historical setting
  • Deep systems to master
  • Open world

A medieval grand strategy game where you guide a dynasty rather than a nation across generations, navigating marriages, succession crises, plots and assassinations. Its systems generate memorable, often darkly absurd emergent stories.

Sea Dogs

Lots to discover

An open-ended 17th-century pirate RPG where you sail your own ship, fight naval battles, trade and visit ports, and choose freely between serving a nation or going pirate.

Europa Universalis IV

Historical setting

A deep grand strategy sandbox where you guide any of hundreds of nations from the late Middle Ages to the Napoleonic era through diplomacy, trade, colonization and war. Its complexity is daunting at first, but crafting your own alternate world history is endlessly absorbing.

Crusader Kings III

Historical setting

A grand strategy role-playing game where you steer a medieval dynasty across generations through marriage, scheming, diplomacy and war. Characters, chance and power struggles constantly produce your own emergent, often chaotic stories.

Sailing Era

Historical setting

A sailing and trading sim with RPG elements: command a fleet, run a business, fight pirates, and discover foreign cultures and treasure across a wide world map.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Historical setting

A sprawling sandbox in pseudo-medieval Calradia where you rise from lone mercenary to ruler, fighting massive battles personally with directional melee and mounted combat. Army management, trade, politics and sieges intertwine to create emergent stories of conquest.

Nantucket

Tactical depth

As Ishmael, you sail the world's oceans in the golden age of whaling, managing your ship and crew while hunting Moby Dick. A slow-paced seafaring strategy game built around trade, discovery and a literary backdrop.

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Lots to discover

Live out a swashbuckling pirate career in the 17th-century Caribbean: sail freely, capture ships, sack towns, win sword duels and court governors' daughters. A breezy, varied blend of naval combat, trading and adventure.

Airship: Kingdoms Adrift

Historical setting

A strategy-simulation game where you customize an airship fleet, plan trade routes and build industries while exploring the skies of a turbulent alternate Europe. It offers a story campaign and an online PvP mode.

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