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Games like Island of the Ancients

If Island of the Ancients is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dinobreak, Aftertime and EL PASO, NIGHTMARE — 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 Island of the Ancients: A single-player third-person / first-person action-adventure shooter set on a mystical island. With a companion by your side, fight your way through scores of deadly creatures. Discover new weapons and companions to tip the odds in your favor. Your family's survival depends on it.

2022ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDWindowsby Insight Gaming Studios, LLC
Island of the Ancients — Steam game cover

Players who liked Island of the Ancients also play

Steam players who put hours into Island of the Ancients 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. Dinobreak

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    Dinosaurs have returned in this retro survival horror crisis.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Aftertime

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    Experience an epic journey across utterly mutated yet picturesque world caused by a fallen meteorite that released unknown toxins to the atmosphere. In this new age, humans have become zombies and once again, dinosaurs roam the earth. Giant mushrooms and massive creatures are sights to behold.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. EL PASO, NIGHTMARE

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Island of the Ancients.

    Slay hordes of vampires, werewolves, and Biblically-accurate angels in this standalone survival horror FPS side story from the El Paso, Elsewhere universe.

    2022Action4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Resident Evil Requiem

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Island of the Ancients.

    Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.

    2026ActionAdventure69.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Island of the Ancients.

    ** Please note: a remastered and improved edition of this game is now available in Zombie Army Trilogy.**Featuring a co-op campaign for 1 to 4 players, Nazi Zombie Army is a horrifying new stand-alone expansion of the award-winning Sniper Elite series.

    2013Action14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dinosaur Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    Dinosaur Hunt is an intense action shooter that will take you on an epic journey of hunting the world’s most horrifying animals!

    2015ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Tomb Raider: Anniversary

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Island of the Ancients.

    Tomb Raider: Anniversary retraces Lara Croft's original genre-defining adventure — globe-trotting 3rd person action-adventure in pursuit of the legendary Scion artifact. Using an enhanced 'Tomb Raider: Legend' game engine, the graphics, technology and physics bring Lara's adventure and pursuit of a mystical artifact known only as the...

    2007ActionAdventure8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Haunted: Hells Reach

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Island of the Ancients fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    Winner of 2010′s Make Something Unreal contest, The Haunted: Hells Reach is a fast-paced horror game where your goal is to liberate cursed places and survive the assault of Hell.

    2011ActionIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Island of the Ancients at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    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 ~62% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~46% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Action with Island of the Ancients.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Action with Island of the Ancients.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    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 ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Island of the Ancients.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Island of the Ancients on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Island of the Ancients.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Island of the Ancients.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Island of the Ancients.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Island of the Ancients.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Island of the Ancients.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Island of the Ancients.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Island of the Ancients

How much does Island of the Ancients cost?
Island of the Ancients is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Island of the Ancients?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Island of the Ancients are Dinobreak, Aftertime, EL PASO, NIGHTMARE.
Who developed Island of the Ancients?
Island of the Ancients was developed by Insight Gaming Studios, LLC.

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 of the Ancients.

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