Games like Isles of Yore
If Isles of Yore is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sanctuary Island, Dead Event and ARK: Survival Ascended — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ai behaves realistically, growth stages affect stats and play as the dinosaur. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Isles of Yore: Immerse yourself in a prehistoric ecosystem brought back from extinction. Survive and carve out your niche on islands teeming with danger and opportunity!
Players who liked Isles of Yore also play
Steam players who put hours into Isles of Yore also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Sanctuary Island
WHY THIS
Top pick for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isles of Yore.
Turn into a Dinosaur of your choice in this survial sandbox game and find out the truth hidden in Sanctuary Island. Or role play with your friends and other players in a vivid landscape full of flora and fauna.
Dead Event
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Isles of Yore.
Second-strongest match for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Dead Event is a indie RPG survival game in which the player grows up as a creature. The creature will grow bigger overtime and with interactions in-game also lose some growth on death. Form a colony or hunt alone, become part of a player-created ecosystem. Survive, eat or be eaten...
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Isles of Yore.
Third-strongest match for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
CardLife: Creative Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Isles of Yore.
Ranked #4 for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Hand draw any weapon, tool, building piece and your own character in this innovative science-fantasy creative survival game. Mine for resources, construct unique buildings and battle fantastical beasts with friends or play alone. Explore a world made entirely out of cardboard!
Beasts of Bermuda
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Isles of Yore.
Ranked #5 for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isles of Yore.
Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?
The Isle
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Isles of Yore.
Ranked #6 for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Day of Dragons
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isles of Yore.
Day of Dragons is an online creature survival game set in a large, beautiful, sandbox open world with multiple biomes and distinct creatures. Rule the world as one of several dragon species, or play as an elemental.
Last Oasis
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Isles of Yore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
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Saurian
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Isles of Yore.
Reviewers of Isles of Yore cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isles of Yore.
Saurian is a survival-simulation experience about living the life of a dinosaur. Starting from the egg, you must survive to adulthood amidst the perilous Hell Creek ecosystem of 66 million years ago, meticulously reconstructed with the help of professional paleontologists.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Isles of Yore.
Reviewers of Isles of Yore cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Day of Dragons
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Isles of Yore cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isles of Yore.
Day of Dragons is an online creature survival game set in a large, beautiful, sandbox open world with multiple biomes and distinct creatures. Rule the world as one of several dragon species, or play as an elemental.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Isles of Yore at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Isles of Yore on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isles of Yore.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Isles of Yore on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Isles of Yore on Steam right now. Shares Action with Isles of Yore.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Isles of Yore on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Isles of Yore on Steam right now. Shares Action with Isles of Yore.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Isles of Yore.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Isles of Yore.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Isles of Yore.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isles of Yore.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isles of Yore.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about Isles of Yore
- How much does Isles of Yore cost?
- Isles of Yore is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Isles of Yore have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Isles of Yore supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Isles of Yore?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Isles of Yore are Sanctuary Island, Dead Event, ARK: Survival Ascended.
- Who developed Isles of Yore?
- Isles of Yore was developed by MaverickMatryoshka.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Isles of Yore.
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