Games like The Gardener and the Wild Vines
If The Gardener and the Wild Vines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bleb, Joon Shining and Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lgbtq protagonist representation matters, chill and cozy. 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Gardener and the Wild Vines: Leap, slash, and climb your way to the top of magical towers in this wholesome platformer about a gay Gardener on a quest to rescue his love.
Players who liked The Gardener and the Wild Vines also play
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Bleb
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Bleb is a platformer in which you will have to think, jump and die! You'll encounter a variety of levels, ranging from simple platforms to epic boss battles. Immerse yourself in a black and white adventure that will break your brain.
Joon Shining
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Master the elements. Explore mystical worlds. Harness ancient powers. Joon Shining is an enchanted golf-like platformer with a fantasy twist. Use magic to bend physics, influence environments, and make impossible shots, as you puzzle your way through a strange & mythic multiverse
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Third-strongest match for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Ranked #4 for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Afterlove EP
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Ranked #5 for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Ranked #6 for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
NODE The Last Favor of the Antarii
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
NODE is a 2.5D puzzle platformer with Timeline-based navigation set in a Cold War era nuclear complex. Plan a route for your robot, strategize, sequence commands and execute them to navigate between checkpoints. Try again. And again. Influence the story with your choices and solve the mystery.
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Ranked #8 for The Gardener and the Wild Vines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Gardener and the Wild Vines at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardener and the Wild Vines on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Finite Reflection Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Finite Reflection Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Steven Universe: Save the Light
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Another title from Finite Reflection Studios, the studio behind The Gardener and the Wild Vines. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Join the Crystal Gems on the ultimate quest! A mysterious new Gem has stolen a powerful weapon. Only Steven and his friends have what it takes to stop her. “Save the Light” is a unique RPG hybrid that combines real-time and turn-based combat.
Void Sols
WHY THIS
Another title from Finite Reflection Studios, the studio behind The Gardener and the Wild Vines. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
TwinCop
WHY THIS
Another title from Finite Reflection Studios, the studio behind The Gardener and the Wild Vines. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
TwinCop is the most cooperative game, EVER. Play this action-packed, co-op, twin-stick shooter with your best bud or significant other. You and your friend are TwinCop: One player controls the right arm; the other controls the left arm; both of you control movement.
Containment
WHY THIS
Another title from Finite Reflection Studios, the studio behind The Gardener and the Wild Vines. Shares Indie with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Containment is a turn-based, minimalist strategy game about managing the growth of bacteria. Use antibiotics to keep their power under control as you work towards containment.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Afterlove EP
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
NODE The Last Favor of the Antarii
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
NODE is a 2.5D puzzle platformer with Timeline-based navigation set in a Cold War era nuclear complex. Plan a route for your robot, strategize, sequence commands and execute them to navigate between checkpoints. Try again. And again. Influence the story with your choices and solve the mystery.
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Frequently asked about The Gardener and the Wild Vines
- How much does The Gardener and the Wild Vines cost?
- The Gardener and the Wild Vines is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Gardener and the Wild Vines?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Gardener and the Wild Vines are Bleb, Joon Shining, Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan.
- Who developed The Gardener and the Wild Vines?
- The Gardener and the Wild Vines was developed by Finite Reflection Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Gardener and the Wild Vines.
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