Games like Black Island
If Black Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Libera Nos a Malo, You Are Family and The Void Between — 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 Black Island: Black Island is a classic adventure game with cinematic storytelling. Gather items, solve puzzles and throw yourself into the darkest of mysteries. If you are a lover of adventure games - Black Island is for you!
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Steam players who put hours into Black 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.
Libera Nos a Malo
WHY THIS
Top pick for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
This is a QTE horror game inspired by 1970s horror movies. This game contains scenes of exorcism and demonic possession, Christian religious themes, disturbing imagery, screams, and moments of intense psychological tension. Some content may be unsettling for certain players.
You Are Family
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
You’re looking to disconnect in a secluded country house. A family welcomes you in. Soon, you’ll discover that feeling at home here… may be more real than you imagine.
The Void Between
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
The Void Between is a FMV psychological horror-puzzle game about a dream holiday that turns into a nightmare. Point & Click around a mysterious mansion filled with tricksy puzzles, creepy clues and otherworldly challenges. Unravel the mystery of the mansion or become part of it...
WILLOW RIDGE
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Ranked #4 for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
In 1995, Detective Richard Moore turned in his badge, abandoning the only case he couldn't solve — A string of disappearances in town, culminating in the loss of his wife. Ten years later, an impossible lead drags him back. After all... Nothing stays buried forever in WILLOW RIDGE.
The Bunker
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.
IMMORTALITY
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Ranked #6 for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
STASIS: BONE TOTEM
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...
Heart of the Forest
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Black Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales of vengeful spirits from Germany’s Black Forest.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Black Island.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Tiny Bunny: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Marie's Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
The Old Tree
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
The Old Tree is a short free-to-play cinematic puzzle game about a newborn alien baby. Witness this microscopic entity's first moments of life and help it emerge from its underground lair and ascend towards an unknown destination.
PRICE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
The hero Ivry wakes up from a nightmare and finds himself in a weird room. To escape from fear and darkness, he has to search and explore on his own until he discovers the truth and finds his sister Iva.A puzzle game 《PRICE》
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Bunker
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
The Bunker is an award-winning interactive psychological horror movie. You are John, born underground the day the bombs fell, now alone and trying to survive. But when an alarm goes off, a catastrophic chain of events begins. Unlock the dark secrets of your past as you try to escape The Bunker.
IMMORTALITY
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
STASIS: BONE TOTEM
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...
Heart of the Forest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Black Island.
An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales of vengeful spirits from Germany’s Black Forest.
Frequently asked about Black Island
- What games are most similar to Black Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Island are Libera Nos a Malo, You Are Family, The Void Between.
- Who developed Black Island?
- Black Island was developed by Helsinki Noir.
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 Black Island.
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