Games like The Doldrums

Still thinking about The Doldrums and its atmospheric and dark tone? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Lost Island
Trapped on an Island. Find items to survive and finish missions
71% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Card Survival: Tropical Island
Stranded on a desert island with nothing but cards and your wits. Card Survival turns survival into a deep, turn-based simulation: combine cards to explore, craft, farm and slowly rebuild a life, while hunger, injury, weather and loneliness all keep score. It looks simple. It is not.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
94% of 2,982 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 88$12.49
30 Days On Ship: Castaway – The First Days
A castaway survival game on a container ship wrecked in the Pacific. Three days to pry open cargo containers, craft tools, hunt, build shelter and keep hunger and thirst at bay, with pirates camped nearby. A short, scrappy first-person survival trip where every crate might hold dinner or something much stranger.
Tense, Scary
68% of 257 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26Free
Bootstrap Island
A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island. Crack coconuts with your own hands, build fires before dark, and hold out against beasts, storms and a watchful tribe. Every run reshuffles the island, every mistake can end you, and every failure teaches you something for the next attempt.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
81% of 1,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$24.99
Lost in Nature
As a shipwrecked person, you are stranded on a beautiful and wild island. Collect resources and build structures like campfires and shelters to survive but be cautious - the raw environment is constantly challenging you! Are you ready for the adventure of your life?
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
47% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Island Time VR
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.
Tense
58% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Surviving Isolation
Surviving isolation is a game about surviving until you're thriving.
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Survivor Island
Try to survive on this island by collecting resources and building items that will help keep you alive.
63% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Survival Project: Island
After a shipwreck you wake alone on a strange island, and staying alive is entirely on you. Explore beaches, jungles, streams and caves, hunt, fish, cook, farm and build, while thirst, weather and injuries close in. Death is part of the plan: each run earns Traits that make the next one go farther.
Atmospheric
83% of 29 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
Castaway Hand
A relaxing vacation, a leisurely journey - that’s how it was supposed to be, but due to a cruise ship crash, you are stranded on a tropical desert island. With its vast sandy beaches, dense woods, and possibly less dangerous animals - do you, by any chance, have what it takes to survive?
Dark
39% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The Island
The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.
Atmospheric
45% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
WAyE
The day starts as always. You choose what's the most important and go fishing. You have no idea how dangerous and incredibile will be your journey. You have only yourself and you have got to survive on an open sea.
Atmospheric, Dark, Tense
52% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

Cheaper than The Doldrums

Lost Island

Trapped on an Island. Find items to survive and finish missions

$4.99

Surviving Isolation

Surviving isolation is a game about surviving until you're thriving.

$0.99

Survivor Island

Try to survive on this island by collecting resources and building items that will help keep you alive.

$0.99

Survival Project: Island

After a shipwreck you wake alone on a strange island, and staying alive is entirely on you.

$4.99

The Island

The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.

$1.99

Castaway Hand

A relaxing vacation, a leisurely journey - that’s how it was supposed to be, but due to a cruise ship crash, you are stranded on a tropical desert…

$5.99

Marooned

"Marooned" is a primitive survival game. One inventory slot, simple crafting system.

$2.99

WAyE

The day starts as always. You choose what's the most important and go fishing. You have no idea how dangerous and incredibile will be your journey.

$0.99

ISLAND 404

Welcome to the game "ISLAND 404". A fascinating adventure awaits you on the island.

$1.99

Island of the Lost

Survive on a mysterious island, gather resources, craft tools, and build a ship to escape—or explore freely in a larger open-world survival mode.

$1.99

Lost Shipwreck

You wrecked on a deserted island, alone and desperate to survive, you will have to get food, water and build your shelter.

$0.99

Hand Simulator: Survival

You wash up on a desert island with up to eight players, and every stick, stone and match goes through hands that obey physics first and you second.

$1.49

Hidden gems like The Doldrums

Bootstrap Island

A realistic VR survival roguelike on a merciless 17th-century island.

$24.99

Card Survival: Tropical Island

Turn cards into food, tools and shelter while the island tests your body and your mind.

$12.49

Survival: Fountain of Youth

Craft, build and sail from island to island, following old clues toward a legend while keeping your camp alive.

$9.79

30 Days On Ship: Castaway – The First Days

A castaway survival game on a container ship wrecked in the Pacific.

Free

Away From Life

You wake up after a helicopter crash with one job: get home.

$12.99

Arid

Crash-landed in the 1930s Atacama desert, you manage sun, thirst and hunger while uncovering the secrets of its abandoned mines.

Free

Project Castaway

Craft, build and sail between Pacific islands, alone or with a friend, while loneliness plays tricks on your mind.

$19.99

Survisland / 实境求生

Wash up on a procedurally generated island and keep a realistically simulated body fed, warm and healthy, crafting everything by hand.

$14.99

Stranded Deep

Survive a plane crash by scavenging, crafting and building your own way off the islands.

$19.99

Escape The Pacific

Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons.

$14.99