Games like APICO
If APICO is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mudborne: Frog Management Sim, Spirit Crossing and Factorio — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming pixel art, atmospheric 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 →APICO is a cozy bee-breeding and collection simulation released in 2022 by developers ellraiser and TNgineers, published by Whitethorn Games, available for $19.99 USD. Set across a series of lush environments, the game combines resource gathering, ecosystem management, and beekeeping minigames with elements drawn from both real and fantasy apiculture and floriculture. Players track bee breeding and collection while managing seasonal events, with mod support available. Players describe it as atmospheric, cozy, and relaxing, and highlight its charming pixel art, educational content on bee conservation, and extensive customization options for breeding bees and managing ecosystems. The game is verified on Steam Deck and holds a 93% positive rating from over 1,150 Steam reviews.
About APICO: APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.
Players who liked APICO also play
Steam players who put hours into APICO 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.
Mudborne: Frog Management Sim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with APICO.
Top pick for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with APICO.
Mudborne is a casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs! Awoken from hibernation you find your pond abandoned. Through the genetic keys of new species you must unlock the paths between the waking & dreaming worlds, and embark on a journey to restore lost populations.
Spirit Crossing
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with APICO.
Rebuild the connection between worlds in Spirit Crossing, a collaborative life-sim MMO from the makers of "Cozy Grove." Explore distant mountaintop ruins, save lost spirits, befriend tiny bears, and build sanctuaries with other players while you carve out a cozy mountainside home of your own.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with APICO.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Software Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with APICO.
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Mars Horizon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with APICO.
Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.
Roots of Pacha
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with APICO.
Ranked #7 for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with APICO.
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Townseek
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for APICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
Take to the skies on a whimsical voyage across Explora and uncover the lost legacy of Sir Reginald Sharkingston! Trade, fish, mine, and farm, meet a unique cast of characters and explore vibrant towns along the way. The whole world is your sea now, so set sail and see all it has to offer!
Reviewers mention these as similar to APICO
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of APICO cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and a cozy mood with APICO.
Reviewers of APICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with APICO.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Snacktorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of APICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
Snacktorio is a factory-cooking automation game where you build and scale food production lines to feed the beasts threatening to consume your world. Manage strange ingredients across sprawling cooking factories to keep the monsters fed while you uncover what’s stirring their growing appetites...
Mudborne: Frog Management Sim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with APICO.
Reviewers of APICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with APICO.
Mudborne is a casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs! Awoken from hibernation you find your pond abandoned. Through the genetic keys of new species you must unlock the paths between the waking & dreaming worlds, and embark on a journey to restore lost populations.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below APICO at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Casual with APICO.
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!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with APICO.
Priced ~50% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with APICO.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
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 ~75% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Casual with APICO.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with APICO.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under APICO on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with APICO.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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 Casual with APICO.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with APICO.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
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.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with APICO.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Mudborne: Frog Management Sim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with APICO.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with APICO.
Mudborne is a casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs! Awoken from hibernation you find your pond abandoned. Through the genetic keys of new species you must unlock the paths between the waking & dreaming worlds, and embark on a journey to restore lost populations.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and Casual with APICO.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with APICO.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Roots of Pacha
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with APICO.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with APICO.
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Frequently asked about APICO
- Is APICO verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — APICO is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does APICO cost?
- APICO is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does APICO have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — APICO supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to APICO?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside APICO are Mudborne: Frog Management Sim, Spirit Crossing, Factorio.
- Who developed APICO?
- APICO was developed by ellraiser, TNgineers and published by Whitethorn Games.
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