Games like Carestia
If Carestia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outpost Delta, Far Star and Something Ate My Alien — 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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Steam players who put hours into Carestia 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.
Outpost Delta
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Top pick for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
Far Star
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
Far Star is a story-driven action-adventure game with Metroidvania influences. There is something fishy going on in this galaxy, but this won’t stop your intergalactic general services crew from doing their job using a varied set of skills, weapons and outfits.
Something Ate My Alien
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
SAMA is a hand painted, digging and puzzle adventure where you take the role of a mining ship and the little Alien blob crew hijacked by a pirate ship. Your Aliens have to dig, fight and puzzle their way through the subterranean worlds fulfilling the ransom demand. Can you do it?
Goodboy Galaxy
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Ranked #4 for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Mind Over Magnet
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.
The Swapper
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
On Rusty Trails
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Carestia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Carestia.
Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Carestia at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Carestia.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Carestia.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under Carestia on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Carestia.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Carestia.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
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 Carestia.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Carestia.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Goodboy Galaxy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Mind Over Magnet
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Carestia.
An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.
The Swapper
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Carestia.
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
On Rusty Trails
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Carestia.
Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!
Frequently asked about Carestia
- How much does Carestia cost?
- Carestia is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Carestia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Carestia are Outpost Delta, Far Star, Something Ate My Alien.
- Who developed Carestia?
- Carestia was developed by River Stone Games.
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 Carestia.
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