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Sea of Survivors

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

In Sea of Survivors, you can sail your ship in any direction but you can never stop moving. Evade and destroy hordes of pirates and sea monsters to gain experience, level up and choose upgrades for your ship. Explore oceans filled with mysterious curses, unlock treasures and fight for survival.

What works

  • Unique pirate theme and setting
  • Engaging upgrade and build system
  • Responsive and active developers
  • Good value for price with replayability
  • Smooth controls and enjoyable music

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access with limited content and maps
  • Steep early difficulty and grind
  • Some balancing and spawn pattern issues
  • Ui and tutorial information lacking
  • Limited social or multiplayer features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Keeper's Toll

  • Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors

  • Cultivation Story: Reincarnation

  • Spell Disk

  • Second Stellar

  • Power of Ten

Less exploratory

Games that feels like Sea of Survivors but with less exploration of areas and secrets

  • Rocket Rats

  • GunSuit Guardians

  • RICE - Repetitive Indie Combat Experience™

  • Demon Hunt

  • Hollow Survivors: Prologue

  • Infinite Tao

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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.
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  • 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).

Sea of Survivors: 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 Relaxation, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026