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Maelstrom

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

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?

What works

  • Fun and skill-based naval combat
  • Good ship customization and progression
  • Active and responsive developers
  • Balanced gameplay with fantasy races
  • Fast matchmaking and short matches

Things to keep in mind

  • Small player base limits matchmaking at times
  • Limited game modes and maps currently
  • Some balancing issues reported
  • Early access bugs and ui roughness
  • Lack of deeper narrative or campaign

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Wildgate

  • SMITE®

  • Age of Wonders: Planetfall

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • Dune: Awakening

  • Star Conflict

Less dominating

Games that feels like Maelstrom but with less domination over others

  • Guns of Icarus Alliance

  • Guns of Icarus Online

  • Guild Wars® Reforged

  • Borderlands 2

  • Holdfast: Nations At War

  • Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™

Less competitive

Games that feels like Maelstrom but with less competition against others

  • Windrose

  • Voyagers of Nera

  • IfSunSets

  • The Pirate: Plague of the Dead

  • Rogue Waters

  • Airship: Kingdoms Adrift

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Maelstrom: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Violence, Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026