Games like Metal Detector Island
If Metal Detector Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Coasting, Master Alchemist Simulator: Arcane Workshop and Scrapman Simulator — 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 Metal Detector Island: A cozy first-person metal-detecting adventure where you explore an island, follow signals, dig up buried chests, sell or collect your finds, upgrade your gear and unlock new areas in search of rarer treasures.
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Steam players who put hours into Metal Detector 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.
Coasting
WHY THIS
Top pick for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector Island.
A cozy online beachcombing hangout full of little android cats at the end of the world. Sweep the shore with your metal detector, dig up treasure, clean it off, show your friends, and give it a home. The tide brings more tomorrow. Take it easy… you’re coasting.
Master Alchemist Simulator: Arcane Workshop
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detector Island.
Build and run your own arcane workshop. Explore a dangerous fantasy world, gather rare ingredients, grow magical crops, craft powerful potions, manage your shop, and fight with blades, bows, and spells—alone or with friends in co-op.
Scrapman Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Metal Detector Island.
Start by collecting cardboard from the streets, turn scrap metal into cash, upgrade your home and vehicle, and grow your business. Build your own recycling empire by playing solo or with your friends in a living city inspired by Istanbul.
Tidewell
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector Island.
Restore a fading seaside town as its newly elected mayor. Answer villagers’ petitions, reclaim neglected plots, shape the shoreline, balance taxes and happiness, and build a cozy cove that feels unmistakably yours.
Doomsday Dealer
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detector Island.
Step into the role of a shopkeeper in a world ravaged by the zombie apocalypse. You’ll manage a haven of hope amidst the ruins, providing essential survival items to the struggling remnants of humanity. Can you build a thriving business and help your community rise from the ashes?
Brainrot Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detector Island.
Become the ultimate Brainrot collector! Explore an open-world map, hunt silly creatures from COMMON to OMNIPRESENT, fill up your Codex, build your gold empire... and face off against your friends in multiplayer. The ultimate brainrot simulator is here!
Wasteland Shop Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Metal Detector Island.
A post-apocalyptic shop management game where you build, customize, and expand your store. Hire staff, explore the wasteland for loot, deal with messy customers and thieves, and grow your retail empire in a chaotic world gone mad.
Theorycraft: Raiding Guild Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Metal Detector Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector Island.
Theorycraft is a single-player raiding guild simulator. Recruit raiders, tune gear and spell priorities, and command authentic MMO-style boss fights with encounter replays, win rate prediction, deep strategy, and rich combat data.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Metal Detector Island at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector 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 ~50% under Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Metal Detector 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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector Island.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector 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 ~50% under Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Metal Detector Island.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detector Island.
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 Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector Island.
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 Metal Detector Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Metal Detector Island.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Metal Detector 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 Metal Detector 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 Metal Detector Island.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Metal Detector 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 Metal Detector Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Metal Detector Island.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detector Island.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detector Island.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Metal Detector Island
- How much does Metal Detector Island cost?
- Metal Detector Island is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Metal Detector Island have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Metal Detector Island supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Metal Detector Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metal Detector Island are Coasting, Master Alchemist Simulator: Arcane Workshop, Scrapman Simulator.
- Who developed Metal Detector Island?
- Metal Detector Island was developed by BetDev.
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