Best Sailing Games on Steam
Games about wind, boats, navigation, oceans, voyages, and seamanship.
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1Stormworks: Build and Rescue - 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.
Sep 17, 2020
In this game, you can…
- pump water out of an airlock 200 meters underwater, juggling fluid pressure until the chamber clears.
- build a missile that loiters around a waypoint until a target appears, then guides itself in for a strike.
- use radar automation to coordinate an automatic drone firefighter swarm as a tiny robotic emergency fleet.
- design your own air-sea rescue fleet, then take it into storms to fight fires, repair oil rigs, and run power stations.
- wire a full command center with cameras, live monitors, and radios you built, then run the whole vehicle remotely.
- iterate a boat through failures until it becomes a 200+ km/h hydrofoil that outruns most multiplayer craft.
- design a pipeline that flexes with waves, locks together, and feeds an oil rig while a tug boat holds everything in place.
- fly a helicopter through heavy winds and land it in rough seas, where the waves are big enough to punish bad design.
2DREDGE - DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Mar 30, 2023
In this game, you can…
- blow your boat horn at night and get a horn reply from something you can't see.
- stay out after dark for rarer, pricier fish while the sea starts lying to you.
- dredge up a mysterious artifact, meet a Collector, and uncover how the mystery ties to your missing memory.
- dredge up relics and scrap from the seafloor to unlock new ship gear and upgrades.
- fit oddly shaped fish into your hold like a sliding puzzle.
- watch your sanity climb until the world fills with whispers, false lights, and hazards that might be real.
- circle a region dominated by a huge monster that defines where you can safely travel.
- go from a tiny tugboat to a faster, brighter, better-equipped ship by piecing upgrades together over time.
3Cat Goes Fishing - Start out on an island with a basic rod. Progress into a radar-wielding master fisher-cat scouring the sea for the biggest and baddest fish. Each fish has unique behaviors that you will learn to exploit as you tailor your arsenal of fishing rods to suit your style of play. Mrrrow!
Jan 19, 2015
In this game, you can…
- get your bait stolen by a dragon, then have to improvise a whole new plan to catch what you came for.
- strap on rockets and drop bombs to cast farther and clear out fish that keep getting in your way.
- hunt down hats in the sea that give real boosts, change your abilities, and can even alter the music.
- start with a basic rod and unlock boats, better gear, sonar, and game-changing hats.
- use smaller fish as bait, kite predators into position, and thread your hook through cave mazes to land specific targets.
- pull off puzzle-like catches where a fish chases you through caves, you snag the exact bait it wants, then hook it mid-pursuit.
- switch between relaxed fishing and a Realism mode where fish fight hard, slip bait, and demand careful reeling.
- dive farther into deeper, darker zones as your boat and gear improve, unlocking new monsters and secrets as the ocean opens up.
4Spilled! - Clean up ocean waste in this short & relaxing game! Recycle, earn coins and upgrade your boat. Explore new areas. Clean bigger spills and different kinds of waste!
Mar 26, 2025
In this game, you can…
- walk into a finale that suddenly turns into a real boss fight in your cozy cleanup game.
- put out fires on beaches and shorelines with your boat's water spray.
- dredge sunken oil barrels up from underwater with a magnet or claw-winch.
- turn a bay from brown, murky sludge into bright blue water you can see through.
- vacuum up floating oil and trash, hit capacity, then haul it to a recycling ship to cash in.
- upgrade your boat to go faster, widen the scoop, and carry way more waste before unloading.
- spray a water cannon to blast oil off shorelines you can't scoop clean.
- unlock the next region by fully cleaning an area, then watch the entire map visibly transform back to life.
- rescue 16 animals trapped in the mess as you clean, including named creatures like an otter.
5Finnish Cottage Simulator - The most detailed cottage experience. Live as a regular Finnish man and enjoy the summer. Play relaxed: go to the sauna, get drunk and grill food. Play how you want: make moonshine, become a burglar and turbocharge your moped.
Nov 15, 2024
In this game, you can…
- get chased by a bear on a moped, then dive into the lake until it gives up.
- make kilju step by step, sell it, drink the last liter, black out, and wake up on someone else's lawn.
- drink beer, chop wood, use the outhouse, hit a 140-degree sauna, kill a bear in your cottage, then pass out fishing in a boat.
- warm up the sauna properly, wait it out, then finally climb in when it's ready.
- get drunk, hallucinate flying cars, black out, and wake up in the forest without your phone.
- steal someone's beer, lose your boat across the lake, then later stumble back in and keep the day going.
- play cards with locals, get invited to the bar, then wake up from a blackout and start another round of games.
6NavalArt - Design your own warships, equip them with a variety of armament, and bring them out to the ocean!
Jun 20, 2018
In this game, you can…
- turn a Titanic into an anti-air fortress by strapping on 1,000 AA guns and trying to survive waves of carrier air strikes.
- download ridiculous Workshop weapons like a 2000mm railgun, then bolt them onto ships that already mix historical and futuristic systems.
- run carriers with RTS-style squadrons, manage altitude as a resource, seize air superiority, and unleash coordinated strikes on enemy fleets.
- build a warship from scratch, launch it for sea trials, then go back to the dock and rebuild when buoyancy, armor, or weapon placement fails.
- build submarines, take them underwater, and bring them into the same fights as surface ships loaded with modern weapons.
- use meter-precise measurements to recreate real ships from references, then sail your own Yamato-scale replica into combat.
- spawn into battles with a different kind of navy every time, like a megacarrier, a Tomahawk-packed battleship, and a laser submarine in one match.
- build an absurdly long ship, like 456 meters, then take it into battle just to see if the physics can handle it.
7Critter Cove - A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?
Sep 10, 2024
In this game, you can…
- spend an hour making a squid-dragon-TV-head hybrid with mixed limbs, custom colors, and patterns.
- craft a tiny boat, then freely pilot your own bathtub ship across the whole archipelago whenever you want.
- swim down into underwater ruins, hidden caves, and an entire sunken city to loot and salvage without fighting anything.
- rescue shipwrecked critters on distant islands, help them out, invite them home, then watch them build houses and take jobs.
- assign residents to run the cafe, tavern, bakery, and shops, and see them love or hate the work based on their likes.
- decorate the entire island with furniture and rides, including placing a bed on a mountaintop if it's flat enough.
- use storms as a world reset: after lightning, new loot washes up, islands refresh, and you can find new castaways again.
- craft straight from storage, with chests linking so crafting can pull ingredients without you carrying them around.
8Horizon's Gate - Voyage into the wide world of Eral as an explorer, trader, or privateer. Defeat your enemies on land or at sea in deep but straightforward tactical combat. Unravel the secrets behind Dominio's betrayal – or sail off in search of your own adventure.
Mar 9, 2020
In this game, you can…
- use your battle skills outside combat to burn foliage, cut barriers, repair gear, freeze rivers, and grow vines to climb mountains.
- board enemy ships after a cannon fight, capture them intact, and add rare vessels to your fleet instead of sinking them.
- set up elemental chain reactions in fights: soak enemies, electrify water, oil targets for extra fire damage, and shove foes into hazards.
- sail out after your country tries to kill you, then rebuild from nothing into a trader, explorer, mercenary, pirate, or faction champion.
- turn shoreline ruins and random map discoveries into handcrafted tactical fights with secrets, monsters, and terrain tricks.
- build a custom fleet from one starter ship into multiple vessels, then fight sea monsters, pirate fleets, and full naval battles.
- unlock new classes by finding trainers and hidden teachers in the world, then mix primary and secondary classes into hybrid builds.
9Aurora: A Child's Journey - Guide Aurora through this beautiful adventure using her imagination to discover who's responsible for the fire that is ravaging her village and its surroundings.
Nov 20, 2020
In this game, you can…
- imagine platforms and objects into existence to change the world and solve puzzles.
- run from a huge aquatic monster with no fighting, just escaping what a child's fear makes real.
- finish the credits and get a real-world explanation of the disaster that inspired the story.
- follow your toy ship through a village, see an explosion across the water, then chase the devastation your imagination turns into a monster threat.
- push and reposition factory machines to open paths through industrial areas.
- watch the world shift from bright, cute scenes into foggy, color-drained industrial zones as the journey gets darker.
10eSail Sailing Simulator - eSail Sailing Simulator is an authentic yacht sailing experience with numerous tutorials, sailing, mooring and anchoring modes, charting, challenges, races, Live Sailing mode, 'Learn Yachting with eSail' and more.
Mar 26, 2019
In this game, you can…
- plot real navigation at a chart table with straightedge and compass, dead reckoning, and magnetic variation.
- choose specific dock lines, place fenders, tie off in marinas, and even account for prop walk while docking.
- listen to VHF forecasts, set off anyway, then reef and reset sails as the weather shifts from calm to storms mid-journey.
- learn sailing hands-on through 20 narrated interactive tutorials.
- twist sails, back the jib, tweak the backstay, and grind winches while telltales show your trim in real time.
- drop anchor while still moving, let it bite, then pivot the boat into the exact position you want.
- go treasure hunting for hidden off-chart places, collect POIs, and unlock a bigger sailing area by exploring.
- practice dangerous mistakes like accidental gybes and heavy-weather handling safely, then repeat until you've got it down.
