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Games like Exipelago

If Exipelago is your kind of game, the closest matches are Death By FrostByte, KingForge and Elven City Simulator — 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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About Exipelago: Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world

2023StrategyIndieSimulationEarly Access19.99 USDWindowsby reiti.net
Exipelago — Steam game cover

Players who liked Exipelago also play

Steam players who put hours into Exipelago 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. Death By FrostByte

    WHY THIS

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

    Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

    2021StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. KingForge

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation5.59 USDSteam ↗
  3. Elven City Simulator

    WHY THIS

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

    Revive civilization and save it from mysterious darkness. Story-oriented colony simulator with elvish flavor and indirect control. Demo available!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Voxelony

    WHY THIS

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

    Voxelony is a Colony, Strategy game, Where you control anthropomorphic lizard colonists and gather resources with other creatures in the same world with full of surprises.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Captain of Industry

    WHY THIS

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

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Kubifaktorium

    WHY THIS

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

    Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Timberborn

    WHY THIS

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

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Stonehearth

    WHY THIS

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

    Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exipelago.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Exipelago.

    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 ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Exipelago.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Exipelago.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exipelago.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exipelago.

    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 ↗
  7. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Exipelago.

    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 ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Exipelago on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Exipelago.

    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 ↗

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 Exipelago.

    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 Exipelago.

    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. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  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 Exipelago.

    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. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

    WHY THIS

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

    Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. The Sims™ 4

    WHY THIS

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

    Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from reiti.net

Other recommendable Steam games by reiti.net, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Robo Miner

    WHY THIS

    Another title from reiti.net, the studio behind Exipelago. Shares Indie with Exipelago.

    Dig to find the ultimate diamond! Entertaining Casual Digging Game

    2015IndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Robo Miner 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from reiti.net, the studio behind Exipelago.

    Control your robot to dig down deep mines in order to find the Ultimate Diamond while avoiding being crushed by falling rocks

    2019Casual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. DeHexTD

    WHY THIS

    Another title from reiti.net, the studio behind Exipelago. Shares Strategy with Exipelago.

    Defend your ever growing platform against an ever rising amount creeps

    2021Strategy1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Hexual Deflection

    WHY THIS

    Another title from reiti.net, the studio behind Exipelago. Shares Strategy with Exipelago.

    Multiplayer Tower Defense Game - Send out units and defend against enemy units in this Arena RTS with up to 32 players

    2024Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Exipelago

How much does Exipelago cost?
Exipelago is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Exipelago?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exipelago are Death By FrostByte, KingForge, Elven City Simulator.
Who developed Exipelago?
Exipelago was developed by reiti.net.

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 Exipelago.

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