Games like Mayday: The Survival Island
If Mayday: The Survival Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are KYORA, Windpunk and Bugs & Birdies — 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.
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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.
KYORA
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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.
Delve into KYORA, a mystical multiplayer sandbox adventure, where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build or explode.
Windpunk
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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.
A cozy survival craft adventure. Build a walking fortress to survive the winds of a fallen world. ♻️ Recycle ⛏️ Refine, 🔧 Rebuild, and ⛺ survive the shifting biomes. Ride the wind, heal the land, and recruit quirky survivors to help rebuild the future. (Previosly known as Wasteland Waste Disposal)
Bugs & Birdies
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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.
Gather, craft, farm, fight! Wash up on a pixel archipelago, build a farmstead and raise an army of hens, trade with frogs – then hold the line at night against beetle swarms, brave the dungeons and face the Beetle King.
Drill Space
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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.
Burrow through alien worlds and mine for hidden treasures. As your foothold spreads across the vastness of space, dark forces hunt you down. How will you carve out your legacy among the stars?
Elysium
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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.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Valheim
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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.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Island Beekeeper
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Ranked #7 for Mayday: The Survival Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mayday: The Survival Island.
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Terraria
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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.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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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Frequently asked about Mayday: The Survival Island
- 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 KYORA, Windpunk, Bugs & Birdies.
- Who developed Mayday: The Survival Island?
- Mayday: The Survival Island was developed by Pequi studios and published by indie.io.
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 Mayday: The Survival Island.
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