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Games like Moondrop

If Moondrop is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cottonville, Shorekeeper and Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming pixel art aesthetic, chill and contemplative. 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 Moondrop: Moondrop is a cozy farming roguelite. Build a farm on a shifting mountain. Find treasure in its hidden trails. Use your skill at farming and alchemy to hold off the vanishing mists. When they inevitably arrive, retreat and rebuild the village to upgrade your next farm. Can you reach the summit?

2023ActionIndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · Linuxby Moonroof Studios
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Adjacency bonuses change every playthroughCharming pixel art aestheticCrop placement feels like a puzzleChillContemplativeRelaxing

Players who liked Moondrop also play

Steam players who put hours into Moondrop 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. Cottonville

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Moondrop.

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

    Create, farm, and style in Cottonville – a cozy dress-up game with farming and sim mechanics!

    2025IndieSimulationRPG10.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Shorekeeper

    WHY THIS

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

    You washed ashore on a mysterious island. Now what? Build a shelter, find food, and explore the unknown. Or just sit by the campfire and watch the sunset. Farm, craft, and manage your new island life entirely at your own pace.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Moondrop.

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

    Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Hokko Life

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Moondrop.

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

    Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Pawsome Resort

    WHY THIS

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

    Pawsome Resort is a cozy life sim where you run an animal hotel in a charming pixel-art village. Design your resort, care for cute animals, grow crops, craft things, complete quests, and bond with villagers. With farming and RPG elements, it's a perfect cozy escape.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Garden of the Sea (VR)

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Moondrop.

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

    You wake up on a small island in a magical world. Grow your garden, nurture local creatures, furnish your home or adventure across the seas to explore more islands and gather new resources. This world is for you.

    2022IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Firefly Village

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Moondrop.

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

    The Firefly Village awaits! A bite-sized, streamlined farming sim that focuses on moments that matter, without wasting a single second of your time. Build a homestead, raise crops, tend to livestock, make friends, and enjoy a pocket of paradise where farming is a delight and friends plentiful.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Moondrop.

    Ranked #8 for Moondrop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Moondrop.

    Foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru, a cozy frog collecting game, where you take pictures of frogs, play mini-games and decorate your habitat. Hop right to it!

    2024SimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Moondrop.

    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 Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Moondrop.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moondrop.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Moondrop.

    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 ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moondrop.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moondrop.

    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 ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moondrop.

    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 ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Moondrop on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Moondrop.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Moonroof Studios

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

  1. Within a Dead City

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Moonroof Studios, the studio behind Moondrop. Shares Simulation with Moondrop.

    Within a Dead City is a tiny RTS / autobattler inspired by Majesty. Hire autonomous heroes to search for gold and glory. Build shops where they can spend their hard-earned loot. Place bounties on monsters to influence their behavior. With skill and strategy, you will find riches in the fallen city.

    2023StrategySimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Neongarten

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Moondrop.

    Another title from Moonroof Studios, the studio behind Moondrop. Shares Indie and Simulation with Moondrop.

    A minimalist cyberpunk city builder inspired by Islanders and Luck Be a Landlord.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ball, Fall, Dungeon Crawl

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Moonroof Studios, the studio behind Moondrop. Shares RPG with Moondrop.

    Drop and merge balls to do battle, slay your foes, and get that sweet loot. Explore, dodge traps, and keep your torch lit. Retrieve the Amulet of Endor from the darkest levels of the dungeon.

    2026StrategyRPGSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Moondrop.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Moondrop.

    Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Hokko Life

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Moondrop.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Moondrop.

    Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Firefly Village

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Moondrop.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Moondrop.

    The Firefly Village awaits! A bite-sized, streamlined farming sim that focuses on moments that matter, without wasting a single second of your time. Build a homestead, raise crops, tend to livestock, make friends, and enjoy a pocket of paradise where farming is a delight and friends plentiful.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Moondrop.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Moondrop.

    Foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru, a cozy frog collecting game, where you take pictures of frogs, play mini-games and decorate your habitat. Hop right to it!

    2024SimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Moondrop

Does Moondrop run on Steam Deck?
Moondrop 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 Moondrop cost?
Moondrop is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Moondrop?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Moondrop are Cottonville, Shorekeeper, Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands.
Who developed Moondrop?
Moondrop was developed by Moonroof 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 Moondrop.

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