Games like Strange Horticulture
If Strange Horticulture is your kind of game, the closest matches are Strange Antiquities, Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss and Back to the Dawn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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.
Get personalized picks →Bad Viking's 2022 indie adventure sees players running a peculiar botanical establishment in the town of Undermere. The gameplay centers on plant identification using cryptic clues, building an encyclopedia of specimens, and fulfilling customer requests to progress through branching narratives. Players explore a Victorian Lovecraftian world through a map interface while organizing their shop and managing a collection of unusual flora. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric, contemplative, and cozy mood, with players describing it as mysterious. Multiple endings reward different approaches, and a hint system supports those seeking guidance. The game is verified for Steam Deck and holds a 95% positive rating from over 9500 Steam reviews. Available for $15.99 USD.
About Strange Horticulture: Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Players who liked Strange Horticulture also play
Steam players who put hours into Strange Horticulture 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.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Shares map exploration, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Top pick for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares hint system and an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Second-strongest match for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.
Back to the Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Third-strongest match for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Ranked #4 for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Ranked #5 for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Ranked #6 for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Ranked #7 for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Enigma of Fear
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Ranked #8 for Strange Horticulture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
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Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Wytchwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.
DREDGE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
SUNLESS SEA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Shares map exploration, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Plague M.D.
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Plague M.D. is a medieval medicine simulator. Become a quack doctor stuck in a backwater village in the 16th century.
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Reviewers of Strange Horticulture cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Strange Horticulture at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Strange Horticulture.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Strange Horticulture.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
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 ~69% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Strange Horticulture.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Strange Horticulture on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
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.
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 Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Strange Horticulture.
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 and Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
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. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
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 Strange Horticulture.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Strange Horticulture.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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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.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Shares map exploration, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Back to the Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Strange Horticulture.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Strange Horticulture.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Frequently asked about Strange Horticulture
- Is Strange Horticulture verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Strange Horticulture 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 Strange Horticulture cost?
- Strange Horticulture is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Strange Horticulture?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Strange Horticulture are Strange Antiquities, Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss, Back to the Dawn.
- Who developed Strange Horticulture?
- Strange Horticulture was developed by Bad Viking and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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 Strange Horticulture.
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