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Games like Among Ripples: Shallow Waters

If Among Ripples: Shallow Waters is your kind of game, the closest matches are FISHERY, Timberborn and Imagine Earth — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Among Ripples: Shallow Waters: Among Ripples: Shallow Waters is an eco tycoon sim. Work with your team of scientists to build, repair and maintain the delicate ecosystem of your lakes. Experiment with flora and fauna - everything from vicious pikes to peaceful puddle ducks.

StrategySimulationWindows · macOS · Linuxby Eat Create Sleep
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  1. FISHERY

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Fishery is a stylized aquarium simulation game. Harness your creativity to build and maintain beautiful aquatic habitats. Then relax and watch your beautiful fish enjoy their home.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Timberborn

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Imagine Earth

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Ecosystem

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Terra Firma 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Megaquarium

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Block'hood

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Biotope

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Biotope will be the most detailed and realistic aquarium simulator on the market. Biotope makes it possible to create complex aquarist ecosystems and simulate realistic life cycles of plants and fish.

    2019StrategySimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

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    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Among Ripples: Shallow Waters

What games are most similar to Among Ripples: Shallow Waters?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Among Ripples: Shallow Waters are FISHERY, Timberborn, Imagine Earth.
Who developed Among Ripples: Shallow Waters?
Among Ripples: Shallow Waters was developed by Eat Create Sleep.

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