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Games like GolfTopia

If GolfTopia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mad Games Tycoon 2, Captain of Industry and Parkitect — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and retro. 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 GolfTopia: DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!

2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby MinMax Games Ltd.
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Players who liked GolfTopia also play

Steam players who put hours into GolfTopia also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Mad Games Tycoon 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with GolfTopia.

    Top pick for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Captain of Industry

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Parkitect

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Spacebase DF-9

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STATIONflow

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with GolfTopia.

    Ranked #5 for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.

    2020StrategySimulation17.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Kingdoms and Castles

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dyson Sphere Program

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with GolfTopia.

    Ranked #7 for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Mad Games Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with GolfTopia.

    Ranked #8 for GolfTopia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to GolfTopia

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Sid Meier's Pirates!

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with GolfTopia.

    Reviewers of GolfTopia cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!

    2005RPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of GolfTopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Create incredible parks in the original rollercoaster sim from Chris Sawyer.

    2017StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Theme Park Worker

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of GolfTopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Theme Park Worker is a recreational park game of a new kind. An open-world game full of possibilities and details awaits you. Choose a attraction to work or just ride with it.

    2019SimulationEarly Access16.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Golf Tour

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of GolfTopia cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Golf Tour is a game made by a group of friends for the same friends. Funny absurd locations, where in addition to the standard obstacles you are waiting and uneven level design. Draw anything on the balls, show your wit. Some bugs we have elevated to the category of features, also for your fun

    2024SportsIndieSimulation1.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below GolfTopia at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GolfTopia.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GolfTopia.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GolfTopia.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GolfTopia.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with GolfTopia.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under GolfTopia on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with GolfTopia.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  3. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.

    2023StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  8. The Sims™ 4

    WHY THIS

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

    Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from MinMax Games Ltd.

Other recommendable Steam games by MinMax Games Ltd., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Clanfolk

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with GolfTopia.

    Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind GolfTopia. Shares Strategy and Simulation with GolfTopia.

    Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

    2022StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Space Pirates And Zombies 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind GolfTopia. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Space Pirates and Zombies

    WHY THIS

    Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind GolfTopia. Shares Strategy and Indie with GolfTopia.

    Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

    2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. No Creeps Were Harmed TD

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with GolfTopia.

    Another title from MinMax Games Ltd., the studio behind GolfTopia. Shares Strategy with GolfTopia.

    Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!

    2024Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about GolfTopia

Does GolfTopia run on Steam Deck?
GolfTopia is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does GolfTopia cost?
GolfTopia is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to GolfTopia?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside GolfTopia are Mad Games Tycoon 2, Captain of Industry, Parkitect.
Who developed GolfTopia?
GolfTopia was developed by MinMax Games Ltd..

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 GolfTopia.

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