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Games like Mad Island

If Mad Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tropical Monster Girls, Megacraft Hentai Survival and The Last King — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, comedic and dark. 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 Mad Island: This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?

2024ActionIndieSimulationRPGEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby EmadePlus
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Active dev community adding content regularlyComfort game potentialcan chill and build peacefullyComplete freedom to do whatever you want on the islandChallengingComedicDark

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Steam players who put hours into Mad 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. Tropical Monster Girls

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, resource gathering, adult content and an immersive mood with Mad Island.

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

    Build relationships and homes with sexy monster girls while you fight to survive. After your ship was raided, you find yourself on a mysterious island. Gather materials, craft weapons and tools. Decorate & build your home. Let your desires be fulfilled in ways only monster girls can.

    2025ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Megacraft Hentai Survival

    WHY THIS

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

    Megacraft Hentai Survival is an open-world shooter where you decide where to go and what to do, your fate is in your hands. How long can you survive in a cubic post-Apocalypse?

    2021ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Last King

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, base building, action adventure and an intense mood with Mad Island.

    Third-strongest match for Mad Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Mad Island.

    Command a fearless Greek army against Persian invasion. Recruit, train, and promote your army. Build marching camp, resource gathering stations, trade outposts and REBUILD your razed city. Master ancient war tactics and strategies to defeat your enemies

    2025ActionStrategyRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Stone Rage

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource gathering, base building and an immersive mood with Mad Island.

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

    Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Ars Notoria

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an immersive mood with Mad Island.

    Ranked #5 for Mad Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Mad Island.

    Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Beyond the Map

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, resource gathering, action adventure and a punishing mood with Mad Island.

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

    Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Nested Lands

    WHY THIS

    Shares permadeath, survival management, survival and a challenging mood with Mad Island.

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

    Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. StarRupture

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival management, base building and an immersive mood with Mad Island.

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

    StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Mad Island

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. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Shares base building and an immersive mood with Mad Island.

    Reviewers of Mad Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Mad Island.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Mad Island.

    Reviewers of Mad Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Island.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Mad Island cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Shares boss fights, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Mad Island.

    Priced ~50% under Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mad Island.

    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 Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad 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 ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mad Island.

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

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mad Island.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mad Island.

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

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mad Island.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Mad Island.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mad Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Mad Island.

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

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mad Island

Does Mad Island run on Steam Deck?
Mad Island is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Mad Island cost?
Mad Island is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Mad Island?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mad Island are Tropical Monster Girls, Megacraft Hentai Survival, The Last King.
Who developed Mad Island?
Mad Island was developed by EmadePlus.

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 Mad Island.

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