Games like Umami Island
If Umami Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project: Autumn, Apples Busy Day and Dragon Acres — 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 Umami Island: Take on the role of a farmer stranded on an island with many funny looking creatures. Farm, fish, explore and do quests to uncover the big mysteries that hide behind this island! Or just relax with the cozy ambience of it!
Players who liked Umami Island also play
Steam players who put hours into Umami 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.
Project: Autumn
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Top pick for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
Join Oakley and Elmer on their whimsical adventure through a stunning archipelago filled with people to befriend and secrets to uncover. Though simply tasked with finding a strange mythical creature, the two robots are distracted by the beauty of the islands.
Apples Busy Day
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Second-strongest match for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
Apples Busy Day is a short and cozy game about exploring and helping your silly neighbors. Come check out all Apple has to do on the island of fruit!
Dragon Acres
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Third-strongest match for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
Collect and raise cute dragons while shaping your land into a thriving farmstead. Bond with your dragons and they will help you on your farm.
Snacko
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Ranked #4 for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!
Sushi Ben
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Ranked #5 for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
An interactive anime story! Save a beloved local sushi bar from dastardly landsharks, get distracted in countless mini games and make unforgettable friends in this larger-than-life narrative adventure. Written by Moa (Hatoful Boyfriend) and featuring a fully voiced cast!
Little Kitty, Big City
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Ranked #6 for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?
Effie
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Ranked #7 for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
Effie is a 3D action-adventure game that combines classic elements from the genre, such as combat, platforming, and puzzles, with the exploration of an expanded world. Live a unique fantasy adventure and relive the look and feel of old-school video-games!
CHUCHEL
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Ranked #8 for Umami Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Umami 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Umami 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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Umami 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Umami Island.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Umami Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Snacko
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!
Sushi Ben
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
An interactive anime story! Save a beloved local sushi bar from dastardly landsharks, get distracted in countless mini games and make unforgettable friends in this larger-than-life narrative adventure. Written by Moa (Hatoful Boyfriend) and featuring a fully voiced cast!
Little Kitty, Big City
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Umami Island.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Frequently asked about Umami Island
- What games are most similar to Umami Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Umami Island are Project: Autumn, Apples Busy Day, Dragon Acres.
- Who developed Umami Island?
- Umami Island was developed by Sven Tomašek.
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