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Games like Tails Island

If Tails Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Croaked!, A.S.S. and Tiny Bomber — 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 Tails Island: Tails Island is a fast-paced action roguelike where you play as a fearless dog taking on wild waves of savage animal enemies. But he’s not fighting alone. Unlock new playable characters like cats, turtles, and other critters, each with their own unique powers and playstyles!

ActionIndieCasualWindows · Linuxby Atuate
Tails Island — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Tails 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. Croaked!

    WHY THIS

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

    Croaked! is a frog-themed roguelike survivor where you choose unique frogs, battle massive hordes of enemies, catch insects for powerful bonuses, evolve weapons, discover special events, and defeat challenging bosses while creating new builds every run.

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. A.S.S.

    WHY THIS

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

    Spin the slot machine. If luck is on your side, your power explodes. Level up fast, collect items, and build your loadout. Hunt down “Spawners” that endlessly create monsters, survive the bullet hell, and clear stages. Overwhelm enemies with insane growth driven by luck and choice.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  3. Tiny Bomber

    WHY THIS

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

    Survive the countdown in a fast-paced vertical bullet-hell roguelite. Collect coins to extend your run, graze bullets to trigger aircraft-specific boosts, build wild upgrade combos, and push toward the final boss.

    2026ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Timber Fever

    WHY THIS

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

    Cut down the infinitely tall Tree to grow stronger. Timber Fever is an action, incremental roguelike where you create chaos with wacky tools while surviving enemy waves.

    2026ActionIndieCasual5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Tales of Meow: Survivors

    WHY THIS

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

    Play as adorable cats and fight against endless waves of enemies in this roguelike game! Empower yourself with ever-growing abilities, create powerful builds, and use a wide variety of active items to handle any situation. It’s time to defeat your enemies!

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  6. Pets Survivors

    WHY THIS

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

    Pets Survivors is a survival roguelike where you battle hordes of monsters and fight to stay alive until time runs out. Choose your pet, pick your favorite weapon, upgrade your abilities, and see how long you can survive!

    2026ActionIndieCasual2.79 USDSteam ↗
  7. E-Lich: Corporate Souls

    WHY THIS

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

    There’s no R.I.P at E-Lich Corp! Explore the afterlife in this roguelite bullet heaven that is all about humor, insane power-levels, replayability and awful office jokes. Reap souls along your undead coworkers in a company that values your life. And death. Literally.

    2025ActionIndieRPG4.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Where Giants Fall

    WHY THIS

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

    Survive procedural fantasy biomes in a 3D top-down bullet-heaven action roguelite with survivors-like build growth. Upgrade auto-fire weapons, earn and upgrade active abilities, unlock level-10 ultimates, defeat bosses, and push into Endless Mode.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Tails 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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Tails Island.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Tails Island

What games are most similar to Tails Island?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tails Island are Croaked!, A.S.S., Tiny Bomber.
Who developed Tails Island?
Tails Island was developed by Atuate.

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 Tails Island.

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