Games like The Island of Crossed Destinies
If The Island of Crossed Destinies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division, The Lady with the Dog and Almanac: Detective Agency — 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 The Island of Crossed Destinies: A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
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Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
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Top pick for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
The Lady with the Dog
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Second-strongest match for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Chekhov's quiet masterpiece becomes a cinematic visual novel about longing, choice, and the impossible shape of an honest life.
Almanac: Detective Agency
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Third-strongest match for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
A narrative detective game about solving mysteries through investigation, evidence, and conversation. Question suspects in your own words, photograph clues, and piece together the truth in a town full of secrets. Who is lying, and what are they hiding?
MoonShot
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Ranked #4 for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
Where Control Ends
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Ranked #5 for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
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Ranked #6 for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Pentiment
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Ranked #7 for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
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Ranked #8 for The Island of Crossed Destinies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Island of Crossed Destinies.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Frequently asked about The Island of Crossed Destinies
- What games are most similar to The Island of Crossed Destinies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Island of Crossed Destinies are Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division, The Lady with the Dog, Almanac: Detective Agency.
- Who developed The Island of Crossed Destinies?
- The Island of Crossed Destinies was developed by Paper Tigers.
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