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Vasily Voronkov, Ryan Joseph · 2015 · 82 % positive of 244

24 games that play like Mainland and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Shipwreck, The NADI Project and Return to Mysterious Island.

Player tags

  • Free to Play
  • Adventure
  • Indie
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Text-Based

At a glance

What games like Mainland have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Mainland: Adventure (22 of 24), Indie (15) and Interactive Fiction (10).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 18 of them after Mainland (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: The Pale Beyond (89 % positive of 1,862).
  • 5 games both play and look like Mainland, among them Return to Mysterious Island, Buried: An Interactive Story and Unroaded.

By gameplay

Plays like Mainland

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

More matches

  1. Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)94 % positive of 157Shared: Interactive Fiction · Adventure
  2. The Lords of the Earth Flame67 % positive of 258Shared: Interactive Fiction · Adventure · Indie
  3. Soul Searching86 % positive of 304Shared: Adventure · Indie
  4. Brine26 % positive of 383Shared: Adventure · Indie
  5. Stranded36 % positive of 520Shared: Adventure · Indie
  6. Dear Esther: Landmark Edition74 % positive of 6,849Shared: Interactive Fiction · Adventure · Indie
  7. Stranded In Time76 % positive of 261Shared: Adventure · Indie
  8. Omen Exitio: Plague85 % positive of 597Shared: Interactive Fiction · Text-Based · Adventure
  9. Call of the Sea88 % positive of 5,168Shared: Adventure · Indie
  10. Fabled Lands80 % positive of 487Shared: Interactive Fiction · Text-Based · Indie
  11. The Frostrune91 % positive of 356Shared: Adventure
  12. Burly Men at Sea62 % positive of 483Shared: Adventure · Indie

By look

Looks like Mainland

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

More matches

  1. A Case of Distrust81 % positive of 579
  2. The Painscreek Killings91 % positive of 5,217
  3. TAIKU MANSION35 % positive of 410
  4. Древняя Русь81 % positive of 168
  5. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&296 % positive of 2,027
  6. Scourge of the village79 % positive of 237
  7. Return of the Obra Dinn96 % positive of 29,016
  8. I live under your house.84 % positive of 271
  9. Nancy Drew®: Legend of the Crystal Skull91 % positive of 198
  10. Miasmata77 % positive of 1,210
  11. Nancy Drew®: The Captive Curse89 % positive of 212
  12. Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness41 % positive of 193

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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