Games Like Bootstrap Island

Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death

Why similar: VR 19.1%, Survival 13.6%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Nature 11.1%, Realistic 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct parallel to Bootstrap Island, offering a hyper-realistic VR survival experience in a dangerous tropical jungle.

Using the power of virtual reality, Song in the Smoke puts your survival directly in your own hands. Enter this dangerous world outside of time, where you must craft weapons, make clothes, build fires, and brew healing elixirs to steel yourself against its vicious predators.

Why similar: VR 20.3%, Immersive Sim 16.5%, Nature 12.4%, Survival 9.1%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the primitive survival and crafting loop in a beautiful, atmospheric VR setting that feels very similar to the seed game.

Cosmodread is a VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.

Why similar: VR 26.9%, Survival Horror 24.1%, Survival 17%, Roguelike 14.1%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides the same high-stakes VR roguelike tension and perma-death mechanics found in the seed game.

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Building 13.8%, Open World 12.7%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Realistic 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: While not VR-native, its 16th-century exploration theme and deep survival mechanics perfectly match the historical and isolationist tone of the seed.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Open World 19.7%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Building 14.7%, Realistic 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Featuring a robust VR mode, this game offers the definitive island survival experience with intense combat and base-building mechanics.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 33.8%, Open World 21.8%, Building 14.3%, Realistic 10.5%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic island survival game that focuses on the core loop of scavenging, crafting, and managing resources while stranded at sea.

Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

Why similar: VR 29.1%, Survival 15.8%, Survival Horror 13%, Open World 12.9%, Realistic 7%

Why You'll Like It: Though set in a different environment, its focus on tactile VR survival, inventory management, and atmospheric tension is unmatched.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Survival Horror 20.2%, Open World 17.9%, Building 11.8%, VR 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-fidelity survival game that offers a massive, dangerous open world to explore with a heavy emphasis on building and combat.

When the Esmeralda crashes on Tyson III, Robin is left stranded. He must rely on his wits – and HIGS, an AI unit from the ship – to survive. As he searches for the lost crew and comes face-to-face with dinosaurs, Robin discovers that Tyson III is not the paradise once promised.

Why similar: VR 50.9%, Survival 13.6%, Exploration 11.3%, Open World 9.8%, Adventure 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This VR adventure focuses on exploration and survival on a mysterious, dangerous island filled with prehistoric threats.

Island 359 is a Virtual Reality survival game for the HTC Vive and Oculus Touch. Players will scrounge for weapons, upgrades, food, and other items they can find to survive for as long as they can against hordes of dinosaurs, as they explore the increasingly dangerous, beautiful, and expansive island.

Why similar: VR 55%, Adventure 23%, Action 22%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-exclusive action-survival game that emphasizes physical movement and combat against dangerous wildlife on a remote island.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Survival 45.6%, Roguelike 22.7%, Simulation 16.5%, Adventure 11.4%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a surprisingly deep and complex survival simulation that captures the nuance of island living through a unique card-based interface.

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!

Why similar: Survival 14.9%, Building 14.6%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Open World 13.9%, Nature 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival simulator that demands extreme attention to detail regarding navigation and resource management in an island setting.

Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.

Why similar: Building 22.9%, Survival 21.7%, Open World 19.1%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Nature 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated island survival game that focuses on base building, hunting, and managing the basic needs of a castaway.

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival 29.6%, Building 21.4%, Open World 18.6%, Exploration 12.9%, Atmospheric 8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines survival and mystery-solving on a remote island, capturing the investigative side of the seed game.

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Adventure 47.6%, Action 42.9%, Singleplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized adventure game that focuses on exploring procedurally generated islands and managing a crew for survival.

The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Why similar: Survival 26.9%, VR 20.8%, Survival Horror 19.2%, Exploration 8.9%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This VR-supported title excels at creating a sense of isolation and atmospheric dread while surviving in a harsh, alien environment.

Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Why similar: VR 34.4%, Open World 20.8%, Survival 20.3%, Exploration 10%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-native survival game that utilizes procedural generation and roguelite mechanics to keep the experience fresh and challenging.

A VR rogue-lite shooter where you must survive waves of sea creatures while building your Super Raft Boat. Can you reach the Final Island?

Why similar: VR 57.5%, Roguelike 33.4%, Action 8%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the frantic, roguelite nature of surviving on a small, vulnerable platform in the middle of the ocean.

You and your crew have been shipwrecked on a tropical island in the late 1600s. At the beginning of the adventure, you find yourself with only a few basic supplies, including ropes, sticks, and stones. With skill and cunning, you can survive on the island and thrive as a pirate crew.

Why similar: Building 28.3%, Survival 27.9%, Open World 23.3%, Realistic 11.6%, Action 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival and building mechanics with a pirate-themed island setting that mirrors the 17th-century aesthetic.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 27.2%, Open World 21.5%, VR 14.1%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Exploration 10%

Why You'll Like It: While primarily underwater, it is the gold standard for atmospheric survival and exploration in a hostile, isolated environment.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World 33.5%, Survival 22.9%, Exploration 14.2%, VR 9.6%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its full VR integration allows for immersive exploration and survival across diverse, procedurally generated environments.

Immerse yourself in a prehistoric ecosystem brought back from extinction. Survive and carve out your niche on islands teeming with danger and opportunity!

Why similar: Life Sim 19.6%, Nature 14.8%, Immersive Sim 14%, Survival 13.3%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive survival game that focuses on the realistic needs of a castaway in a dangerous, prehistoric-themed island environment.

Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.

Why similar: VR 28.4%, Building 21.8%, Survival 20.7%, Open World 19%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused survival game that emphasizes looting and player interaction in a hostile, open-world island setting.

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 66.5%, Adventure 18.2%, Action 12.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-adventure game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a pixelated but highly detailed island world.

Detached is a suspenseful interstellar duel that demands tactics and skill to survive. Separated from your unit you must make smart decisions and race to safety in this visceral exploration of deep space. Strap yourself into your spacesuit for thrilling gameplay designed for VR headsets.

Why similar: VR 21.4%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Immersive Sim 10%, Realistic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused exploration game that emphasizes the feeling of being stranded and the need for careful resource management.

Get ready to paddle through some of the world's wildest, and most challenging rapids in breathtaking VR. With stunning graphics, realistic physics, and heart-pumping action, you'll race against the clock as you navigate through wild waters filled with obstacles and surprises.

Why similar: VR 23.2%, Nature 17.2%, Immersive Sim 16%, Realistic 13%, Physics 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the physical, nature-focused immersion of VR, providing a similar sense of being at the mercy of the elements.

Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.

Why similar: Open World 76.3%, Adventure 22.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Pirates VR Jolly Roger is a game alluding to old stories of the all-time most famous Pirates. The journey into the pirate world begins on a deserted island. Despite its extraordinary charm, the land hides a number of secrets and mysteries to be solved as well as obstacles and traps.

Why similar: VR 34.4%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Realistic 12.1%, Exploration 10.2%, Physics 9.8%

Virtual Battlegrounds is a VR Battle Royale built from the ground up for virtual reality. Battle to become the last warrior standing on this dystopian war-crazed island with tactical gun-play, an epic map, and physically controlled locomotion.

Why similar: VR 58.8%, Simulation 17.6%, Action 12.1%, Adventure 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more combat-focused, it provides the high-intensity VR movement and survival tension found in the seed game.

Cube Life: Island Survival is an open-world, block building, survival game, taking place on a beautiful remote island. Imagine being shipwrecked and stranded left for dead, with only your will to survive. You must explore, build, craft, and fight your way to stay alive.

Why similar: Building 27.4%, Survival 23.9%, Open World 23.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival game that focuses on building and exploration in a sandbox island environment.

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Survival 17.9%, Open World 16.7%, Nature 14.9%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Historical 7.9%

If you’ve ever wondered what being stranded on an island might be like, this VR game is for you, buddy. Using the advice of a new friend, Carl the Crab, you’ve gotta find a way to keep yourself from starving and survive as long as possible.

Why similar: VR 41.3%, Simulation 31.7%, Survival 27%

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Roguelike 31.5%, Simulation 25.9%, Survival 22.5%, Adventure 18%, Singleplayer 2%

Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!

Why similar: Open World 28%, Building 27.7%, Nature 21.2%, Exploration 12.5%, Simulation 6.6%

Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.

Why similar: Building 23.3%, Survival 21.6%, Open World 19.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Exploration 7.5%

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Survival 29.6%, Open World 17.2%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Building 10.1%, Realistic 7.3%

Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

Why similar: Survival 40%, Exploration 16.9%, Adventure 16.6%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Action 8.4%

Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.

Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Open World 16.8%, Building 16.6%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Simulation 8.4%

Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!

Why similar: VR 25.5%, Survival 19.4%, Nature 15.1%, Building 13.1%, Open World 12.5%

Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.

Why similar: Survival 32.1%, Realistic 19.5%, Simulation 13.3%, Exploration 11.8%, Adventure 8.5%

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Survival 23.5%, Building 19.9%, Open World 19.7%, Realistic 14.8%, Exploration 10.8%

How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.

Why similar: VR 41%, Building 22.3%, Survival 21.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Action 6.2%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Survival 34.2%, Open World 26.1%, Building 21.9%, Exploration 6.1%, Simulation 4.3%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Survival Horror 20.1%, Survival 19.4%, Building 18.9%, Open World 18%, Exploration 8.2%

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 35.8%, Open World 29.4%, Realistic 15.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Adventure 4.6%

GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.

Why similar: VR 25.4%, Survival 20%, Open World 16.2%, Physics 12.4%, Simulation 7%

Inspired by an existing indigenous tribe, where they live on an island called "North Sentinel Island". Native Hunter gives the player the possibility of living the experience in the body of an indigenous person completely isolated from society, just like the Sentinelese do.

Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Building 17.8%, Historical 14.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Realistic 9.6%

Immerse yourself in a lost paradise, with mystery beyond its pristine shores.

Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Realistic 21.7%, Historical 14.5%, Exploration 12.7%, Atmospheric 10.2%

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 45.9%, Building 23.5%, Open World 21.3%, Adventure 4.3%, Simulation 2.8%

Far Beyond: A space odyssey VR is the first hardcore Rogue-like in Virtual Reality with a Sci-fi atmosphere and AAA graphics. It features a hard but rich gameplay focused on resources management, craft and strategy.

Why similar: VR 44.7%, Survival 15.7%, Simulation 15.3%, Adventure 9.7%, Realistic 9.5%

STRANGER is a Single-player Survival Thriller Horror Game. Choose your house and difficulty, then survive until dawn. Uncover mysterious truths about the STRANGER. Play on PC or with VR support

Why similar: Survival Horror 22%, VR 19.6%, Survival 15.5%, Realistic 12.8%, Immersive Sim 10.3%

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Why similar: Survival 51%, Open World 24.1%, Adventure 12.7%, Action 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 18.6%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Realistic 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%

You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!

Why similar: Building 27.1%, Survival 25.3%, Simulation 10.8%, Exploration 10.8%, PvE 10.3%

Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Survival 63.8%, Adventure 36.2%

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Survival 37%, Roguelike 30.2%, Open World 19.7%, Simulation 7.7%, Adventure 5.4%

How long do you survive on a small island in the middle of a flooded world?

Why similar: Open World 18.9%, Physics 16.2%, Survival 14.1%, Immersive Sim 13.6%, Exploration 8.3%