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Games like Viticulture Essential Edition

If Viticulture Essential Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terra Mystica, Small World and Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability through expansion content, contemplative 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.

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About Viticulture Essential Edition: This is the official digital adaption of the boardgame Viticulture by Jamey Stegmaier & Alan Stone.

2020StrategyIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby DIGIDICED
Viticulture Essential Edition — Steam game cover
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Faithful adaptation of the board gameHelps learn the physical gameReplayability through expansion contentContemplativeCozyRelaxing

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Steam players who put hours into Viticulture Essential Edition 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. Terra Mystica

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    In a world of fantasy, called Terra Mystica, 14 races are fighting together or individually against their opponents to gain power and territory. Using their resources smartly and terraforming wisely to gain supremacy and lead their own settlers to victory.

    2017StrategyIndie16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Small World

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    CONTROL FANTASY RACES, SET OFF TO CONQUER NEW LANDS, OVERTHROW YOUR ENEMIES AND CLAIM THE VICTORY! In this digital adaptation of the legendary board game, dive into a world inhabited by whimsical fantasy races.

    2013StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Third-strongest match for Viticulture Essential Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.

    2017StrategyCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Concordia: Digital Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️

    2021StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Wingspan

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Ranked #5 for Viticulture Essential Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.

    2020StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Everdell

    WHY THIS

    Shares worker placement, resource management and a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!

    2022StrategyIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Ogre

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    The official adaptation of the legendary wargame from Steve Jackson Games. Engage in futuristic warfare with armored hovercraft, superheavy tanks, infantry, and giant cybernetic war machines called "Ogres".

    2017StrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Root

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Viticulture Essential Edition

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. Subnautica

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

    2018IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Tabletop Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Pandemic: The Board Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Humanity is on the brink of extinction. As members of an elite disease control team, you’re the only thing standing in the way of the four deadly diseases spreading across the world.

    2018StrategySimulationDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Scythe: Digital Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Scythe transports you to an alternate reality in 1920s Europa, one ravaged by the First World War. Take up the role of leader by assuming command of one of 5 factions, and set out to conquer the coveted "Factory". Lead your mechs to war and your people to victory!

    2018Strategy19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Terraforming Mars

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.

    2018Strategy19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Wingspan

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.

    2020StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 7 Wonders II

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Reviewers of Viticulture Essential Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Journey back in time with the 7 Wonders series to when magnificent structures were being built in far away lands. Enjoy challenging match-3 gameplay in a newly enhanced interactive environment where you not only learn about marvelous new wonders such as Stonehenge and Taj Mahal, but also watch them come to life piece by piece before your...

    2008Casual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    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 ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    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 ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    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 ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Viticulture Essential Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    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 ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from DIGIDICED

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

  1. Gaia Project

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Gaia Project is the digital adaptation of the boardgame Gaia Project created by Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller and published by "Feuerland Verlag". It is a 1-4 player strategy game. It plays in the same universe as Terra Mystica and continues the adventure in the far future.

    2021StrategyIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Castles of Burgundy

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Stefan Feld's highly decorated board game "The Castles Of Burgundy" by Ravensburger is getting its digital version on Steam! Enjoy against the challenging AI or friends a beautiful digital version of the classic board game!

    2019StrategyIndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Terra Mystica

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    In a world of fantasy, called Terra Mystica, 14 races are fighting together or individually against their opponents to gain power and territory. Using their resources smartly and terraforming wisely to gain supremacy and lead their own settlers to victory.

    2017StrategyIndie16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Isle of Skye

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Five clans are fighting to rule over the Isle of Skye. Only the chieftain who develops the best clan territory and trades wisely will be king!

    2018StrategyIndieCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Patchwork

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    In the long-awaited digital adaptation of Uwe Rosenberg's Patchwork, players patch their way to victory using fabric pieces of assorted sizes, colors, and buttons.

    2016StrategyIndieCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Le Havre: The Inland Port

    WHY THIS

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Build a prosperous port in Uwe Rosenberg’s award winning two-player board game!

    2016StrategyIndieCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small

    WHY THIS

    Shares worker placement and a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small is a digital adaptation of Uwe Rosenberg's award-winning two-player board game featuring farming and livestock breeding.

    2017StrategyIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Cottage Garden

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Another title from DIGIDICED, the studio behind Viticulture Essential Edition. Shares Strategy and Casual with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    In the digital board game Cottage Garden, you compete in the art of gardening.

    2017StrategyCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Concordia: Digital Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️

    2021StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Wingspan

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.

    2020StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Everdell

    WHY THIS

    Shares worker placement, resource management and a cozy mood with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Harvest resources to build a village of woodland critters in this adaptation of the award-winning tabletop board game!

    2022StrategyIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Root

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Viticulture Essential Edition.

    Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Viticulture Essential Edition

Does Viticulture Essential Edition run on Steam Deck?
Viticulture Essential Edition 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 Viticulture Essential Edition cost?
Viticulture Essential Edition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Viticulture Essential Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Viticulture Essential Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to Viticulture Essential Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Viticulture Essential Edition are Terra Mystica, Small World, Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics.
Who developed Viticulture Essential Edition?
Viticulture Essential Edition was developed by DIGIDICED.

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