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Games like These Doomed Isles

If These Doomed Isles is your kind of game, the closest matches are These Doomed Isles: The First God, Kingdom's Deck and Noah's Dilemma — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building systems feel satisfying, gods offer distinct playstyles and low intensity gameplay loop. 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 These Doomed Isles: Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Triplevision Games Limited
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Building systems feel satisfyingGods offer distinct playstylesLow intensity gameplay loopChillContemplativeRelaxing

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Steam players who put hours into These Doomed Isles 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. These Doomed Isles: The First God

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building, resource management and a whimsical mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Top pick for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    These Doomed Isles: The First God is a prologue chapter of the main game, These Doomed Isles. Play as Cernunnos, the Celtic god of nature, and lead the Celtic civilisation to victory against waves of invaders, curses and more!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Kingdom's Deck

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building, resource management and a relaxing mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Second-strongest match for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Noah's Dilemma

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    A sudoku-inspired strategy roguelike where you build a team of animal sailors and guide your ark through perilous seas. Master tactical placement, face unpredictable encounters, and battle deadly foes as you chart a course through this reimagined world of Noah's Ark.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Toads of the Bayou

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Ranked #4 for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Lead a group of toads as they fight against Baron Samedi’s evil forces in a challenging mix of turn-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding. Synergise card effects, gain the aid of powerful allies and engage in strategic combat to thrive in the cursed bayou.

    2024StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Deck of Haunts

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and resource management with These Doomed Isles.

    Ranked #5 for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Reus 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Ranked #6 for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Deisim

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Ranked #7 for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Rise to Ruins

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Ranked #8 for These Doomed Isles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to These Doomed Isles

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Reus 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Reviewers of These Doomed Isles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Spirit Island

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building with These Doomed Isles.

    Reviewers of These Doomed Isles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.

    2020StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Against the Storm

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Reviewers of These Doomed Isles cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with These Doomed Isles.

    A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below These Doomed Isles at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with These Doomed Isles.

    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 ~67% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    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. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with These Doomed Isles.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building with These Doomed Isles.

    Priced ~58% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    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. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    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 ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under These Doomed Isles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with These Doomed Isles.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with These Doomed Isles.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with These Doomed Isles.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dota 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with These Doomed Isles.

    Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.

    2013ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Limbus Company

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.

    2023FreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Deck of Haunts

    WHY THIS

    Shares deck building and resource management with These Doomed Isles.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Reus 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Deisim

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with These Doomed Isles.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with These Doomed Isles.

    Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about These Doomed Isles

Is These Doomed Isles verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — These Doomed Isles 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 These Doomed Isles cost?
These Doomed Isles is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to These Doomed Isles?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside These Doomed Isles are These Doomed Isles: The First God, Kingdom's Deck, Noah's Dilemma.
Who developed These Doomed Isles?
These Doomed Isles was developed by Triplevision Games Limited and published by Fireshine Games.

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