Games like Island Diary
If Island Diary is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slobbish Dragon Princess 3, Riddle Joker and Sakura MMO Extra — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, emotional and relaxing. 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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Steam players who put hours into Island Diary 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.
Slobbish Dragon Princess 3
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Island Diary.
Top pick for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
Peace has more or less returned as humankind and dragonkind learn to coexist with each other. With the town summer festival approaching soon, Takeru would prefer that things stay the way they are. As expected, a new threat approaches in the form of Mei, the dragon princess of the Nether!
Riddle Joker
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
For decades, superpowers and psychic abilities were thought to be mere science fiction, but the discovery of a certain particle called the "Astron" at the end of the 20th century proved to the world that these wondrous phenomena were real.
Sakura MMO Extra
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Island Diary.
Third-strongest match for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Join Viola in this light-hearted yuri fantasy story set in the magical realm of Asaph, as she tackles her biggest challenge yet: working at a maid café.
Your Diary +
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Island Diary.
Ranked #4 for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
Your Diary + is a visual novel game that explores the seven ways humans experience happiness in the stories of its seven heroines. What does it mean to be useful to someone? To be loved? To trust someone with your heart? Rediscover the importance of these everyday joys.
Cross Princess
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Island Diary.
Ranked #5 for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
Single route visual novel. Belle is actually a boy, an accident lets him and a bright girl named Bambi begin to live together, a warm and healing friendship + love story.
OshiRabu: Waifus Over Husbandos
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
"—I wanna marry you." Those simple words set in motion a ♀ yuri ♀ game of cat and mouse!
Loca-Love My Cute Roommate
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Island Diary.
Ranked #7 for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Aoi Ichitaro has had a crush on his cute coworker, Kojika Hiwa, for quite some time. When he's presented with the opportunity to move in with her, all his wildest dreams may finally be coming true...!
Fantasy Tavern Sextet -Vol.3 Postlude Days-
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Island Diary.
Ranked #8 for Island Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
The final chapter of the 3-part series! The harem antics get even crazier when a maid and a priestess join the fray! Even a certain legendary hero makes an appearance! The harem rom-com set in a fantasy tavern welcomes its final chapter!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Island Diary at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Island Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
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 ~41% under Island Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Island Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Island Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Island Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Island Diary on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island Diary.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Island Diary
- Does Island Diary run on Steam Deck?
- Island Diary is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Island Diary cost?
- Island Diary is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Island Diary?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Island Diary are Slobbish Dragon Princess 3, Riddle Joker, Sakura MMO Extra.
- Who developed Island Diary?
- Island Diary was developed by watakubi and published by Sekai Project.
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 Island Diary.
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