Games like Paper Islands
If Paper Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dominus Orbis Maris 1400: Mare Nostrum, The Road To Harvest: Food From Across The Ocean and Age of Magellan: Sail the entire Planet — 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 Paper Islands: Paper Islands is a mapmaking game where you play an explorer more interested fame than honest map-making. Sail on a living map that reacts to your changes, discover rare goods, manipulate frivolous rulers, and make your name by charting the vastness of the unknown world.
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Dominus Orbis Maris 1400: Mare Nostrum
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Islands.
DOM 1400: Mare Nostrum is an immersive maritime strategy and economic simulation game set in the Mediterranean during the 15th century. Establish trade routes, manage the daily needs of different social classes, and dominate the market through a realistic economy driven by dynamic scarcity.
The Road To Harvest: Food From Across The Ocean
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
Become the God of Harvest, explore the world of food and adventure, plant, trade, and spread deliciousness to create your own path to prosperity!
Age of Magellan: Sail the entire Planet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
An open-world Age of Exploration sailing sim where you can circumnavigate the entire planet and relive the feats of the great discoverers. Navigate by sextant, trade across thousands of real cities, and maneuver your ship to bring broadsides to bear in real-time naval combat.
Trade Empire
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Ranked #4 for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Islands.
Trade Empire is a medieval trade strategy game. Create your merchant, start trading in your chosen city, and use diplomatic moves to take control of trade across the entire map and eliminate your rivals.
Sailing Era
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Ranked #5 for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Paper Islands.
Every voyage is a journey of "Sailing & Beyond" in Sailing Era! Navigate your fleet and sail for fun; run a business; have a romantic encounter in the tavern; capture pirates amid intense battle; explore inland for treasure... Experience foreign culture, make novel discoveries, and sail away!
Nantucket
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Ranked #6 for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
Republic of Pirates
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Ranked #7 for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Paper Islands.
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Terror of the Seven Seas
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Ranked #8 for Paper Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Paper Islands.
Become a Mighty Captain in a Age of sail naval combat game, set in all of the Seven Seas! Sail the entire world: conquering, boarding, plundering, exploring and trading along the way! Gather your crew, ready your ship, hoist your sails and enter a world of swashbuckling and piracy!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Islands.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Paper Islands.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Frequently asked about Paper Islands
- What games are most similar to Paper Islands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Islands are Dominus Orbis Maris 1400: Mare Nostrum, The Road To Harvest: Food From Across The Ocean, Age of Magellan: Sail the entire Planet.
- Who developed Paper Islands?
- Paper Islands was developed by Napping Raccoon.
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 Paper Islands.
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