Games like Nine Islands
If Nine Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fifth Sun: New Fire, The Last King and ShelfQuest — 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 Nine Islands: Help Odysseus navigate the nine islands of Homer's Odyssey to return home and break the curse of Poseidon. Explore new islands, craft your way to new tools, survive the wilderness and nights and solve island challenges to return to the sea.
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Steam players who put hours into Nine 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.
Fifth Sun: New Fire
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Top pick for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
Survive the world of Mesoamerican mythology - alone or with friends. Gather, build, and survive your way through hostile wilds. Raid dungeons, appease the gods, and slay their monsters to offer them as sacrifices at the grand altar to reignite the Fifth Sun and open the gateway to the past suns.
The Last King
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Second-strongest match for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Command a fearless Greek army against Persian invasion. Recruit, train, and promote your army. Build marching camp, resource gathering stations, trade outposts and REBUILD your razed city. Master ancient war tactics and strategies to defeat your enemies
ShelfQuest
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Third-strongest match for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
A survival crafting game where you build the entire world from the ground up, while fighting the gods of Olympus, and becoming the strongest being in the universe!
Eldrem: Kingdoms
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Ranked #4 for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
Ride your dragon to the top of the food chain as you tame, breed, and raise fantastic creatures. Channel your creatures magic powers in brutal third person combat. Explore the open world, discover new creatures, wield their skills and build your fortress in the Crystal Sky Islands.
SkyCraft
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Ranked #5 for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
IslaNode Rescue Signal
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Ranked #6 for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
IslaNode Rescue Signal it is a unique survival adventure ,set on deserted island where you have nothing but natural resources. Stranded alone, you’ll need to explore, gather materials, and craft with unique node-based crafting system.
Echo Maiden
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Ranked #7 for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Dwarf Land
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Ranked #8 for Nine Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
Embark on a journey in Dwarf Land, a procedurally generated open world. Master modular building amidst dense forests and towering peaks. Unleash creativity in crafting, hunting, and mining. Discover dwarven culture in a vibrant sandbox simulation. Dwarf Land awaits, a realm of endless possibilities.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Nine 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 Nine 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine 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 Nine Islands.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nine 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!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nine Islands.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Nine Islands
- What games are most similar to Nine Islands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nine Islands are Fifth Sun: New Fire, The Last King, ShelfQuest.
- Who developed Nine Islands?
- Nine Islands was developed by Tencubed Games.
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 Nine Islands.
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