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Airships: Lost Flotilla

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk autoshooter where you fight your way through waves of enemies on your way to a safe harbour. Destroy your foes, harvest wreckage, and upgrade your ship.

What works
  • Deep ship customization and build variety
  • Engaging roguelike progression and unlock system
  • Unique steampunk setting and lore
  • Challenging and tactical combat
  • Good value for price with frequent updates
Things to keep in mind
  • Steep learning curve and sometimes clunky controls
  • Ui and information clarity issues
  • Some balance and difficulty frustrations
  • Minimal social or multiplayer features
  • Repetitive environments and limited story depth

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Karate Survivor

  • Spell Disk

  • Genome Guardian

  • Dead Estate

  • Picayune Dreams

  • Double Kick Heroes

  • Sea of Survivors

  • DRAINUS

  • Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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  • Power of Ten

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Airships: Lost Flotilla: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Violence, Creativity.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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Last update: 12/07/2026