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A rough but playful co-op survival-adventure on a mysterious island, currently in Early Access with short play sessions.

Island Notes
An open-ended survival sim on a mysterious island, with moral choices, base-building, farming, romance, and pet taming—though reviewers note technical hiccups and uneven controls.
2025-08-21
- Shooter
- Action

First person

Adventure

Indie

Role-playing (RPG)

Open world

Sandbox

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Betrayal Beach

A 4-8 player social deduction survival game on a crash-landed island, featuring foraging, crafting, and hidden saboteurs, generally played in short sessions.

2024-05-06

Survival
Strategy
Third person
Indie
Card & Board Game

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Pirates Journey

A short co-op pirate survival adventure on a tropical island in the 1600s, with mixed reviews citing shallow gameplay.

2024-09-13

Action
First person
Adventure
Role-playing (RPG)

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My Island

A relaxed tropical survival game with co-op hunting, building, and farming, but reviewers find it unpolished and lacking in content.

2024-05-01

Adventure
Survival
Indie
Simulator

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Lost World

An open-world first-person survival game with co-op, though mixed reviews note repetitive content and a lack of progression after about 13 hours.

2023-02-05

Action
Adventure
Simulator

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Project Castaway

A survival crafting adventure on Pacific islands with sailing, hunting, and building, offering solo or co-op play and mixed reviews due to bugs.

2026-03-17

Action
First person
Adventure
Survival
Open world

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Away From Life

An early-access castaway survival game about crashing on an island, scavenging, crafting, and sailing home, with co-op and a beautiful ocean but rough edges.

2026-04-22

Action
First person
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Sport

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The Legacy

A solo/co-op survival-horror game about returning to a cursed homeland, with mixed reviews citing an unfinished, janky experience and very short play sessions.

2025-10-08

Action
First person
Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts

A buggy early-access survival horror for up to 4 players that focuses on crafting, building, and exploring a mysterious unknown.

2023-08-17

Action
First person
Adventure
Third person

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Hand Simulator: Survival

A physics-based island survival game with clumsy hand controls, thirst and hunger management, and solo/co-op/PvP modes; reviewers spent about three hours with it.

2019-12-17

Action
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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IslaNode Rescue Signal

An early-access survival adventure on a deserted island with node-based crafting and an atmospheric, rough-around-the-edges feel.

2025-10-23

Adventure
Indie

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Girl Island

An early-access tropical island survival sandbox with relaxed pacing and solo/co-op play, still rough around the edges, with a median reviewer playtime of about 4.4 hours.

2026-01-06

Action
Adventure
Indie
Simulator