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Games like The Island of Thugs

If The Island of Thugs is your kind of game, the closest matches are Glory to Ukraine!, QUICKN and Island Domination — 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 The Island of Thugs: Welcome to the isalnd of thugs. This tropical island is a secret military base of Russian PMC. You are a Special Agent who must find the leader of PMC and eliminate him. Take the gun and let's go!

2025ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Big Green Platypus
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Steam players who put hours into The Island of Thugs 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. Glory to Ukraine!

    WHY THIS

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

    On 24 February, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Your task is kill the invaders. Use any available weapons: knive and axe, machine gun and grenades. Be careful, enemies are crafty and merciless. The fate of Ukraine depends on you.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. QUICKN

    WHY THIS

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

    Shoot, blast and slash your opponents to win this dynamic top-down shooter in luscious neon colors.

    2024ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Island Domination

    WHY THIS

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

    A director of a large biomedicine company offers you a great contract to recover two notebooks seized at a military base.

    2021ActionIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Blackstrike Protocol

    WHY THIS

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

    Blackstrike Protocol is an intense third-person multiplayer shooter (TPS) that puts you at the center of strategic confrontations, where teamwork, precision, and skill are key to victory.

    2026ActionIndie0.59 USDSteam ↗
  5. Attempt to Survive

    WHY THIS

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

    Operation Jaeger is a cooperative multiplayer PvE first-person shooter in which you and your team become “Jaegers”—members of a special unit deployed to a restricted zone within the former Soviet Union.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Boomcestors

    WHY THIS

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

    Boomcestors is a top-down arena shooter game with rogue-lite elements, where players command a squad of up to six soldiers, battling various enemies in the medieval era using modern weaponry, artillery, and air support.

    2025ActionIndieCasual4.79 USDSteam ↗
  7. Kill To Live

    WHY THIS

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

    Your health decreases with every second and extermination of enemies is the most effective way to restore it. Don't sit still if you want to stay alive.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Tank War Nexus

    WHY THIS

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

    In tankWar Nexus, you will fight with different enemies, bosses and challenges that only true heroes can withstand. Are you a hero? Test your ability on TankWar Nexus!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Island of Thugs.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Island of Thugs.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Island of Thugs.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Island of Thugs.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Island of Thugs.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Island of Thugs.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Island of Thugs.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Island of Thugs on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Island of Thugs.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Island of Thugs.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 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 The Island of Thugs.

    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 ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Island of Thugs.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Island of Thugs

How much does The Island of Thugs cost?
The Island of Thugs is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Island of Thugs?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Island of Thugs are Glory to Ukraine!, QUICKN, Island Domination.
Who developed The Island of Thugs?
The Island of Thugs was developed by Big Green Platypus.

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 The Island of Thugs.

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