Games like ISLANDERS: New Shores
If ISLANDERS: New Shores is your kind of game, the closest matches are ISLANDERS, Match Village and Tranquil Isle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 ISLANDERS: New Shores 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.
ISLANDERS
WHY THIS
Shares score chasing and a chill mood with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Top pick for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
Match Village
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Second-strongest match for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Match Village is a minimalist puzzle and strategy game about merge buildings to create villages on colorful islands.
Tranquil Isle
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Tranquil Isle is a lo-fi strategic townbuilder. Create cozy little settlements on the sun-kissed shores of your very own island paradise.
Planet Pioneers
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Planet Pioneers is a relaxing building and puzzle game where you prepare new planets for settlers. Build tiles strategically, fulfill quests for your settlers, keep pollution low and enable new buildings along the way. Shape the planet as you wish until it’s time to move on to your next challenge.
Mini Worlds
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Mini Worlds is a cozy building toy about creating tiny cities on a small world. Build and decorate with no goals or timer.
AstroScaper
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
A relaxing puzzle city builder where you expand colonies on all sides of asteroids. Balance three core stats while placing buildings with proximity synergies. Plan efficient layouts, build train networks, and watch your settlements bloom in space.
TerraScape
WHY THIS
Shares city building, replayability, cozy and an atmospheric mood with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Ranked #7 for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
HEXAROMA: Village Builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ISLANDERS: New Shores fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ISLANDERS: New Shores at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ISLANDERS: New Shores on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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 ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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 ISLANDERS: New Shores.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ISLANDERS: New Shores.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about ISLANDERS: New Shores
- Is ISLANDERS: New Shores verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — ISLANDERS: New Shores 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 ISLANDERS: New Shores cost?
- ISLANDERS: New Shores is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ISLANDERS: New Shores?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ISLANDERS: New Shores are ISLANDERS, Match Village, Tranquil Isle.
- Who developed ISLANDERS: New Shores?
- ISLANDERS: New Shores was developed by The Station and published by Coatsink, Thunderful Publishing.
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 ISLANDERS: New Shores.
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