Games like Ancient Islands
If Ancient Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Age of Goblins and Button Pop — 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 Ancient Islands: Tower-defense mixed with economy elements. It features complex skill trees, resource trading, building your own village, and setting individual tactics for each tower. Can you defend what you've built from hordes of enemies? Visit Ancient Islands and test your tactical sense!
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Steam players who put hours into Ancient 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.
Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand
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Top pick for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Islands.
Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.
Age of Goblins
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ancient Islands.
AoG is a real-time strategy game (RTS) with simplified mechanics and cute visuals, but VERY challenging at times. Lead your goblin tribe into what they do best: expand, conquer, and exterminate each other. Any resemblance to humans is purely coincidental.
Button Pop
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Third-strongest match for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ancient Islands.
Button Pop is a 3D Tower defense game fused with Button mashing chaos. Construct the deadliest defense strategies by unlocking powerful traps and turrets across a variety of terrains, while building your very own button with the rewards of your adventures!
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
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Ranked #4 for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Islands.
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
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Ranked #5 for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Islands.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
The Riftbreaker
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Ranked #6 for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Ancient Islands.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #7 for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Islands.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Cliff Empire
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Ranked #8 for Ancient Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ancient Islands.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ancient Islands at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~44% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient 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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient Islands.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Islands.
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.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient Islands.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~44% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ancient Islands.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient Islands.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ancient Islands.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~44% under Ancient Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Strategy with Ancient Islands.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ancient 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.
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?
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ancient Islands.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Ancient Islands
- How much does Ancient Islands cost?
- Ancient Islands is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ancient Islands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ancient Islands are Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Age of Goblins, Button Pop.
- Who developed Ancient Islands?
- Ancient Islands was developed by Avernus Software, Art Games Studio S.A. and published by Art Games Studio S.A..
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 Ancient Islands.
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