Games like Pico Islands
If Pico Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are T-Minus 30, Prison Architect and Foundation — 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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Steam players who put hours into Pico Islands 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.
T-Minus 30
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pico Islands.
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pico Islands.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pico Islands.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pico Islands.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Banished
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pico Islands.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pico Islands.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pico Islands.
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Parkasaurus
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pico Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pico Islands.
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pico Islands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Pico Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pico Islands.
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 ~47% under Pico Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pico Islands.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Pico Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pico Islands.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Pico Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pico Islands.
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 ~58% under Pico Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pico Islands.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Pico Islands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pico Islands.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pico Islands.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pico Islands.
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 and Simulation with Pico Islands.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pico Islands.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pico Islands.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Pico Islands.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pico Islands.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pico Islands.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Pico Islands
- Is Pico Islands verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Pico Islands is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Pico Islands cost?
- Pico Islands is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pico Islands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pico Islands are T-Minus 30, Prison Architect, Foundation.
- Who developed Pico Islands?
- Pico Islands was developed by BitSpree GmbH.
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 Pico Islands.
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