Games like Rising Islands
If Rising Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are The World's Hardest Game 3D Nostalgia 2, Beyond The Clouds and Stress Ball — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its time trials encourage speedrunning, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Rising Islands: Rising Islands is an adventure game where you’ll have to combine fast-paced action with quick thinking. Jump, shift, grind, dash and wallrun through a fantastic world that is fraying at the edges. New challenges await around every corner.
Players who liked Rising Islands also play
Steam players who put hours into Rising Islands 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.
The World's Hardest Game 3D Nostalgia 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rising Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rising Islands.
Easy to play, hard to finish. The World's Hardest Game 2, which you used to play on flash game sites, is now with you in 3D! The same 50 levels as in the original game are now here. Be patient, dodge enemies and reach to the end in this 3D Hard Platformer!
Beyond The Clouds
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rising Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rising Islands.
Embark on an exhilarating journey in 'Beyond The Clouds,' where parkour skills are key to conquering towering heights. Master fluid movement to overcome obstacles and puzzles, pushing your limits physically and mentally. Will you rise to claim your place beyond the clouds?
Stress Ball
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rising Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rising Islands.
Experience the blend of fun and challenge with Stress Ball! In this 3D ball game, your character bounces through platforms toward the goal. As levels intensify, and a dark theme adds depth to the atmosphere, immerse yourself in the thrill of overcoming increasingly difficult obstacles.
UP
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Rising Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rising Islands.
Test your reflexes in a vertically designed world. Master constantly changing mechanics and traps as you climb your way to the top.
Mirror's Edge™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rising Islands.
Ranked #6 for Rising Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Rising Islands.
In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
Big Hops
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rising Islands.
Ranked #7 for Rising Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rising Islands.
Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.
A Story About My Uncle
WHY THIS
Shares time trials and an atmospheric mood with Rising Islands.
Ranked #8 for Rising Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rising Islands.
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...
Reviewers mention these as similar to Rising Islands
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Portal
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rising Islands cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rising Islands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Rising Islands.
Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death.
Prince of Persia®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rising Islands.
Reviewers of Rising Islands cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Rising Islands.
The critically acclaimed Prince of Persia® franchise returns for the first time on next-generation platforms with an all-new epic journey. Built by the same award-winning Ubisoft Montreal studio that created Assassin's Creed™, Prince of Persia has been in development for over three years to deliver a whole new action-adventure gaming...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rising Islands at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
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 ~50% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
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 ~50% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rising Islands.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rising Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 with Rising Islands.
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 Rising 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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
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 Rising Islands.
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 with Rising Islands.
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 Rising 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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rising Islands.
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 Rising Islands
- How much does Rising Islands cost?
- Rising Islands is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rising Islands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rising Islands are The World's Hardest Game 3D Nostalgia 2, Beyond The Clouds, Stress Ball.
- Who developed Rising Islands?
- Rising Islands was developed by Lone Hero Studios.
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