Airmen similar games & best alternatives

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Airmen

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Airmen is a first person ship building and battling game featuring airships, landships and watercraft. Crew your ship solo or alongside friends on dangerous expeditions into the archipelago to complete contracts, collect resources, and upgrade your ships.

What works

  • Highly creative shipbuilding system
  • Active developer with frequent updates
  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer gameplay
  • Good balance of building, combat, and exploration
  • Friendly and supportive community

Things to keep in mind

  • Small player base limits multiplayer experience
  • Steep learning curve and unintuitive ui for beginners
  • Graphics and animations are basic
  • Some balance and optimization issues
  • Occasional bugs and performance quirks

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Space Engineers

  • Worms Reloaded

  • Executive Assault 2

  • Shotgun Farmers

  • Forts

  • Block N Load

More story-driven

Games that feels like Airmen but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Temtem

  • Guns of Icarus Alliance

  • Ancient Warfare 3

  • SUPERVIVE

  • Maelstrom

  • Worms Ultimate Mayhem

Less intimate

Games that feels like Airmen but with less focus on close relationships

  • TerraTech

  • The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt

  • CastleStorm

  • Airships: Conquer the Skies

  • Attack on Toys

  • Avorion

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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).

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Airmen: 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 Intimacy, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026