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Games like Pluto's Island

If Pluto's Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Realm of Ink, Children of Morta and Moon Hunters — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and nostalgic. 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 Pluto's Island: Artsy and super weird action adventure RPG with roguelike sauce(elements) on top. Inspired by 90's RPG's, comics, and cartoons. Made by one human.

2023ActionIndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDWindowsby Valentino Quijano-Moeckel
Pluto's Island — Steam game cover
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90s inspired art and musicAbility upgrades drastically change playstyleCollectible badges and permanent upgradesAtmosphericContemplativeNostalgic

Players who liked Pluto's Island also play

Steam players who put hours into Pluto's 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.

  1. Realm of Ink

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Top pick for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Realm of Ink is an Ink-style action Roguelite game. While pursuing the Fox Demon, the swordswoman Red, unexpectedly finds that her life is dictated by the 'destiny' within the world of the book. Only by breaking free can she unveil the truth of her existence and challenge the constraints of fate.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure22.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Children of Morta

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Second-strongest match for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?

    2019ActionIndieAdventure21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Moon Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Third-strongest match for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pluto's Island.

    Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?

    2016IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Hades II

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Ranked #4 for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.

    2025ActionIndieRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. VOIN

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural exploration and an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Ranked #5 for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Crafted by a solo developer, VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash. Cleave through hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. Explore dark fantasy realms filled with secrets and dangers. Discover powerful gear and weapons, and face menacing bosses in your quest to cleanse a broken world.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Reignbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Ranked #6 for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Reignbreaker is a high-octane action rogue-like set in a dystopian medievalpunk world. Step into the boots of Clef, a fearless rebel ready to rid the world of the Kingdom’s oppression, take down the Elite and lay siege to the Queen’s grand Bastion. Grab your javelin and become The Reignbreaker!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Into the Necrovale

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Ranked #7 for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another. You must be clever with your build if you hope to pierce the mysteries and dangers of the Necrovale, where a thousand generations of miscreants and criminals have been banished.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Striving for Light

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Pluto's Island.

    Ranked #8 for Pluto's Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure12.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pluto's Island at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pluto's Island.

    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 Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pluto's Island.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    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 ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pluto's Island.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pluto's Island.

    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 ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pluto's Island.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Pluto's Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pluto's Island.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pluto's Island.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pluto's Island.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pluto's 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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Pluto's Island.

    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 ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck 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. Children of Morta

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?

    2019ActionIndieAdventure21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Hades II

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.

    2025ActionIndieRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Reignbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Pluto's Island.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Reignbreaker is a high-octane action rogue-like set in a dystopian medievalpunk world. Step into the boots of Clef, a fearless rebel ready to rid the world of the Kingdom’s oppression, take down the Elite and lay siege to the Queen’s grand Bastion. Grab your javelin and become The Reignbreaker!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Striving for Light

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Pluto's Island.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pluto's Island.

    Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure12.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Pluto's Island

How much does Pluto's Island cost?
Pluto's Island is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Pluto's Island?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pluto's Island are Realm of Ink, Children of Morta, Moon Hunters.
Who developed Pluto's Island?
Pluto's Island was developed by Valentino Quijano-Moeckel.

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 Pluto's Island.

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