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Games like Maja Island

If Maja Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion, Nulla Via and Into The Depths — 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 Maja Island: Sail through a mysterious open world island in your trusty boat, scavenge for resources to upgrade it, and face off against Maja.

2026ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Unreal Fusion Games
Maja Island — Steam game cover

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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.

  1. THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion

    WHY THIS

    Top pick 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.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Nulla Via

    WHY THIS

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

    NULLA VIA is a WW2 psychological horror set in a preserved, abandoned war town. Explore silent ruins, bunkers, and mass graves where life was erased. Shadows cannot be killed by bullets alone. Use your camera, your weapons, and your sanity to survive. This town was never rebuilt for a reason.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Into The Depths

    WHY THIS

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

    Escape the lab and survive through dangerous monsters and military personnel

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Y. Village - The Visitors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Massacre At The Mirage

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure12.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Beyond Hanwell

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.24 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bughouse

    WHY THIS

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

    Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Choo-Choo Charles

    WHY THIS

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

    Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    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!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. 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.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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.

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

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

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 THE MADHOUSE | Infected Mansion, Nulla Via, Into The Depths.
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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