Games like Dig Island
If Dig Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are DROPTCH, Voxelantis and Engineer Alpha — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting systems interlock well, atmospheric and chill. 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 Dig Island: Dig Island is a 4-player co-op digging game. As you dig deeper, discover new resources, upgrade your equipment, and work with your friends to repair the plane and escape the island.
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Steam players who put hours into Dig 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.
Voxelantis
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dig Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Voxelantis is a sandbox building and survival game set in a flat or spherical voxel world. Build anything out of your imagination, or adventure into uncharted territories to fight dangerous creatures. You can and deserve to have a small home planet of your own.
Engineer Alpha
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Third-strongest match for Dig Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
Rising World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Ranked #4 for Dig Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Orebound
WHY THIS
Shares crafting system, exploration and an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Ranked #5 for Dig Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Camping Vlog Simulator 2024
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dig Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dig Island.
Witness breathtaking sunsets and pitch your tent under starry skies. Record your camping adventures and share them with the world!
Keep Digging
WHY THIS
Shares crafting, exploration, indie and an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Ranked #7 for Dig Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Keep Digging is a digging survival craft game for up to 8 players. Explore a procedurally generated 5000m underground world, bring back ores, blueprints, and fossils, then use the smelter, forge, and enchantments to build your gear! Team up in co-op or compete for items in PvP.
cyubeVR
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Dig Island.
Ranked #8 for Dig Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dig Island
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Starbound
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Reviewers of Dig Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares survival management with Dig Island.
Reviewers of Dig Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Reviewers of Dig Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Reviewers of Dig Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dig Island.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dig Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dig Island.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Dig Island.
Reviewers of Dig Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares crafting, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Dig Island.
Reviewers of Dig Island cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dig Island at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dig Island.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Dig Island.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dig Island.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dig Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dig Island.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 and Casual with Dig 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 Adventure with Dig 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dig Island.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig Island.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dig Island.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dig 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dig Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Dig Island
- Does Dig Island work on Steam Deck?
- Dig Island is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Dig Island cost?
- Dig Island is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dig Island have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dig Island supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dig Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dig Island are DROPTCH, Voxelantis, Engineer Alpha.
- Who developed Dig Island?
- Dig Island was developed by FiftyEight Studios.
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 Dig Island.
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