Games like On Island
If On Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Planeturem, ReckFall and Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival — 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 On Island: On Island is a game where you must survive on a mysterious archipelago and recover your memories. Enter a world where every day brings new challenges. Complete quests, experience an amazing adventure, and find your way to escape!

Players who liked On Island also play
Steam players who put hours into On 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.
Planeturem
WHY THIS
Top pick for On Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with On Island.
Explore a procedurally generated planet filled with resources to harvest - or discover structures containing potentially rare items. Build your base to protect yourself and fight off evil, collecting materials to build new gear. Build a rocket and explore new planets!
ReckFall
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for On Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with On Island.
Stranded on an alien earth-like planet after a failed mission, you’ll need to gather resources, build shelter, and fight to stay alive. Explore strange biomes, uncover hidden secrets, and decide whether to rebuild or escape before the planet claims you.
Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for On Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with On Island.
"Mortal Frame" is a sci-fi RPG combining open-world exploration and sandbox survival. The player explores a challenging world, gathers resources, crafts gear, captures AI companions, and upgrades modification chips to enhance their abilities, facing powerful foes and uncovering hidden mysteries.
Smalland 2: Lost Realms
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for On Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with On Island.
The Smallfolk are back with a massively expanded universe in this open-world survival adventure set on a tiny scale! Enjoy up to 10 player co-op where you craft weapons and armor, form companionships with creatures, build encampments, and discover strange new lands.
PlanetSmith
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for On Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with On Island.
A sandbox survival RPG set on fully spherical hex worlds. Crash-land on an uncharted planet, craft and build to survive, uncover what infected the solar system, then build a ship and fly seamlessly to other planets. No loading screens. No edges.
Lay of the Land
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for On Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with On Island.
Lay of the Land is a sandbox adventure game set in a fantasy world where everything is physically simulated. Use the environment to your advantage and Explore, Fight, Loot and Build your way through mysterious lands.
Whisper of the Swallows
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for On Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with On Island.
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with On Island.
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 Action and Indie with On Island.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 On 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with On Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with On Island.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with On 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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with On Island.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with On Island.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about On Island
- What games are most similar to On Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside On Island are Planeturem, ReckFall, Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival.
- Who developed On Island?
- On Island was developed by SystemGames P.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 On Island.
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