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Games like Isolated Life

If Isolated Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Let's build a garden, HammerHelm and Chocolate Factory — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About Isolated Life: In this world of the future, you've fallen into an island in the middle of the ocean, and here you're building an isolated life from all over the world. It's up to you to collect the necessary supplies and build what's on your mind.

2020IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDWindowsby Hakan Martin
Isolated Life — Steam game cover

Players who liked Isolated Life also play

Steam players who put hours into Isolated Life 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.

  1. Let's build a garden

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isolated Life.

    Let's build a garden 2 A sandbox to forget time, creating a breathing garden

    2024IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. HammerHelm

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Chocolate Factory

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Build your dream Chocolate Factory among candy cane forests and gumdrop hills to produce the tastiest sweets. A delicious first-person factory automation game with a little exploration and combat. Confectionary conveyor belt heaven awaits!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure13.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Infected

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isolated Life.

    The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

    2020ActionIndieSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Survival: Fountain of Youth

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure27.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Escape The Pacific

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Stranded Deep

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

    2022IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Novus Inceptio

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Isolated Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Isolated Life at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isolated Life.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Isolated Life.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isolated Life.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Isolated Life.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isolated Life.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Isolated Life.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Isolated Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isolated Life.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isolated Life.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isolated Life.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Isolated Life.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Isolated Life.

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Isolated Life.

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Isolated Life

How much does Isolated Life cost?
Isolated Life is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Isolated Life?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Isolated Life are Let's build a garden, HammerHelm, Chocolate Factory.
Who developed Isolated Life?
Isolated Life was developed by Hakan Martin.

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 Isolated Life.

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