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Coatsink, GrizzlyGames · 2019 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 94 % positive of 16,316 reviews, as of Oct 18

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

24 games that play like ISLANDERS and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: ISLANDERS: New Shores, Townscaper and TerraScape.

Player tags

  • Relaxing
  • City Builder
  • Strategy
  • Building
  • Puzzle
  • Indie
  • Minimalist
  • Singleplayer
Map region: Factories & City Builders
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Best matches

Plays and looks like ISLANDERS

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like ISLANDERS

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Tiny Glade97 % positive of 19,845Shared: Relaxing · Building · Procedural Generation
  2. Foundation85 % positive of 20,132Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy
  3. Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle94 % positive of 215Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Building
  4. Terra Nil87 % positive of 6,987Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy
  5. LakeSide70 % positive of 174Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy
  6. Gourdlets94 % positive of 1,735Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Building
  7. Banished90 % positive of 42,246Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy
  8. Settlement Survival86 % positive of 7,280Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Building
  9. Outlanders91 % positive of 382Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy
  10. Synergy83 % positive of 560Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy
  11. Pocket City92 % positive of 252Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Building
  12. River Towns96 % positive of 160Shared: Relaxing · City Builder · Strategy

By look

Looks like ISLANDERS

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. AER Memories of Old85 % positive of 7,377
  2. Before We Leave78 % positive of 1,637
  3. Outlanders91 % positive of 382
  4. Piratopia84 % positive of 1,054
  5. Townscaper95 % positive of 21,028
  6. The Colonists85 % positive of 1,161
  7. Of Life and Land87 % positive of 263
  8. Len's Island85 % positive of 3,924
  9. Deisim92 % positive of 762
  10. TDS - Tower Defense Strategy86 % positive of 233
  11. Plan B: Terraform91 % positive of 2,425
  12. Airborne Kingdom86 % positive of 2,161

At a glance

What games like ISLANDERS have in common

  • The tags they share most often with ISLANDERS: City Builder (21 of 24), Relaxing (20) and Strategy (18).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 22 of them after ISLANDERS (2019).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Tiny Glade (97 % positive of 19,845).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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