Games like The Outer Islands
If The Outer Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dimhaven - The Lost Source, PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE and Dead Faces — 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 The Outer Islands: Explore a quarantined island chain and an automated hospital abandoned for twenty years. Investigate a returning signal, read the evidence left behind, solve mechanical systems, and evade machines that still believe they have patients.
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Dimhaven - The Lost Source
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Top pick for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
Are you ready for an adventure? Challenges, exploration and puzzles in a narrative driven experience, pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team behind Quern!
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
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Second-strongest match for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
Something's hiding in the cassette. Rearrange the words of your enemies to investigate a small-town conspiracy in this mystery puzzle game.
Dead Faces
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Third-strongest match for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
Dead Faces is a mind bending psychological horror. Unravel Jack's disturbing mind, the faces from his past and the ultimate truth behind his actions. You must remember their faces.
Exit Protocol: Emergency
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Ranked #4 for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
You are trapped in a looping hospital corridor. The rules are simple: Turn back if you see an anomaly. Close your eyes if you hear a sound. Do not move if you see an entity. Find the exit.
SONDER: Embrace The World
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Ranked #5 for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
Time flows back and forth in this narrative, open-world cavern, harbouring a young research civilisation in the face of disaster. Embrace environmental clues that add up to an interwoven story of fear, resolve and a constant sense of discovery, defying the laws of time and space.
Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room
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Ranked #6 for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths. In this mysterious Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to find the hidden vault with the treasure. But you will find much more...
The Painscreek Killings
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Ranked #7 for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?
Scene Investigators
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Ranked #8 for The Outer Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
Scene Investigators is a hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 The Outer Islands.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
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.
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 Adventure with The Outer Islands.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Outer Islands.
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 The Outer Islands
- What games are most similar to The Outer Islands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Outer Islands are Dimhaven - The Lost Source, PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE, Dead Faces.
- Who developed The Outer Islands?
- The Outer Islands was developed by Ancient Clockwork Games.
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