Games like Maja Island
If Maja Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Open Waters, Deer Head and Out of the Fog — 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 Maja Island: Sail through a mysterious open world island in your trusty boat, scavenge for resources to upgrade it, and face off against Maja.

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Steam players who put hours into Maja 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.
Open Waters
WHY THIS
Top pick for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Maja Island.
Open Waters is a first-person ocean survival horror game. Stranded in a small boat, you must navigate treacherous waters, evade creatures of the deep, and find your way back to safety before the ocean drags you into its depths.
Deer Head
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Survive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to stay alive and fight the vengeful deer monster that lives in the forest. Use your camera to flash the monster and escape. Explore the forest and find out what happened.
Out of the Fog
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
What begins as a myth-busting adventure quickly turns into a terrifying fight for survival when the mysterious faceless creature reveals himself to be real. Explore, survive and uncover the truth in this 1-2 player co-op horror experience.
CALL OF CUTIE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
CALL OF CUTIE is a single-player horror adventure set inside a vast, terrifying laboratory. Explore dark corridors, solve puzzles, fight frightening enemies, and rescue the victims trapped inside. Choose your own path with Bubbles and find a way to escape.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion is a survival horror game. Contains Fear, Stealth, Exploration/Puzzle solving, Item management. Moreover "Multiple First-Person Views" provides a new level of fear, immersion, strategy. Steal the vision of "something" lurking in the abandoned house and try to survive.
The Red Selene
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Sci-fi Horror now comes to Metroidvania, Creating The Horrovania, Begin your most disturbing adventure to the colony of EC-21 JANUS, KILL, LOOT, AND SURVIVE, and Immerse yourself in the huge open-world hand-drawn environments with massive details.
Y. Village - The Visitors
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Batu, tormented by nightmares, is lured to a nameless village via cryptic letters. Investigating the village's secrets with just one friend, he wakes one night to discover his ally gone. He must now locate his friend and elude the village's dark mysteries.
Massacre At The Mirage
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Maja Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Maja 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.
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 Maja 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Maja Island.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maja Island.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Maja 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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Maja 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Maja Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Maja 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.
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Frequently asked about Maja Island
- What games are most similar to Maja Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Maja Island are Open Waters, Deer Head, Out of the Fog.
- Who developed Maja Island?
- Maja Island was developed by Unreal Fusion Games.
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 Maja Island.
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