Games like Faraway Islands
If Faraway Islands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Core Keeper, See Ya Later! and Len's Island — 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 Faraway Islands: A top-down story-driven survival game, set on unknown islands you must explore in order to find a way home. Your adventure will contain classic mechanics like crafting, acquiring resources, hunting animals, farming, fishing, building shelter, and defending from enemies.
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Core Keeper
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Top pick for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
See Ya Later!
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Second-strongest match for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
Your ship crash landed on a randomly generated map, survive long enough to escape by crafting, mining, fishing, and farming!
Len's Island
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Third-strongest match for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
cyubeVR
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Ranked #4 for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
Immerse yourself in a voxel game exclusively designed for VR. A beautiful infinite procedural world. Explore, gather resources, craft with your hands in 3D, and build anything you can imagine. Featuring great VR controls, near-infinite view distance, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more!
Dinosaur World
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Ranked #5 for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
TerraTech Worlds
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Ranked #6 for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Miniland Adventure
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Ranked #7 for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
The world doesn't generate itself - you do it, shape the world as you wish! Start with nothing, and build dream houses for goblins and yourself while exploring, collecting resources, crafting, building, fighting, farming... and more!
Among Trees
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Ranked #8 for Faraway Islands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Faraway Islands at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway 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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Faraway Islands.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under Faraway Islands on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraway 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?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraway Islands.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Faraway Islands.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Faraway Islands.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraway 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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Faraway Islands.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Faraway Islands
- How much does Faraway Islands cost?
- Faraway Islands is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Faraway Islands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Faraway Islands are Core Keeper, See Ya Later!, Len's Island.
- Who developed Faraway Islands?
- Faraway Islands was developed by bocoboc.
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