Games like Mayday: The Survival Island
If Mayday: The Survival Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terraria, Necesse and Crashlands — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Mayday: The Survival Island: After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Players who liked Mayday: The Survival Island also play
Steam players who put hours into Mayday: The Survival Island 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.
Terraria
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Top pick for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Necesse
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Second-strongest match for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Crashlands
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Third-strongest match for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Core Keeper
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Ranked #4 for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Satisfactory
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Ranked #5 for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
The Forest
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Ranked #6 for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Dune: Awakening
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Ranked #7 for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Voidtrain
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Ranked #8 for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mayday: The Survival Island.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mayday: The Survival Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mayday: The Survival Island.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Frequently asked about Mayday: The Survival Island
- Does Mayday: The Survival Island have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Mayday: The Survival Island supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Mayday: The Survival Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mayday: The Survival Island are Terraria, Necesse, Crashlands.
- Who developed Mayday: The Survival Island?
- Mayday: The Survival Island was developed by Pequi studios and published by indie.io.
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