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Games like Islands

If Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Wuslers, Aubelys and Kingdoms Rise and Fall — 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.

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About Islands: Island Island Island is a low-poly cartoon-style sandbox survival crafting game. Set in an infinitely dynamically generated world of floating islands, all terrain unfolds in real time as you move—the map has no boundaries.

StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasualWindowsby FU JUNJIE
Islands — Steam game cover

Players who liked Islands also play

Steam players who put hours into 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.

  1. The Wuslers

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    Build a cozy settlement and economy where little Wuslers carry every single good on foot along the roads you lay out. Feed your mines, expand your territory with barracks and play solo, against the AI or with up to eight players on PC and Android.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Aubelys

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    Play as the leader of a light fantasy town. Your character gather resources, raise a five-tier settlement, recruit and specialize fellow villagers, and defend against nightly raids in solo, online co-op, PvP, or local split-screen as you push back against the dark spreading in the land of Aubelys.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Kingdoms Rise and Fall

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. 8-Bit Armies

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Islands.

    42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

    2019Strategy34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Attack on Toys

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Driftland: The Magic Revival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Islands.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Islands.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. 100 Asian Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Islands.

    🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

    2023ActionSportsStrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Islands.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Islands.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Islands

Does Islands have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Islands supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Islands?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Islands are The Wuslers, Aubelys, Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
Who developed Islands?
Islands was developed by FU JUNJIE.

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 Islands.

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