Games like Herder
If Herder is your kind of game, the closest matches are NecroFarm, Gutfarm and Farmageddon: Undead — 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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NecroFarm
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Top pick for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Herder.
Turn your crops into minions and they will fend off waves of enemies in this top-down horde survival farming game. A mix of strategy and fast-paced farming that challenges you to defend the farm with your crop minions or even harvest them for gold! Gain new seeds and grow your army!
Gutfarm
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Herder.
Gutfarm is a top-down 2D pixel art game that blends farming, tower defense, and survival elements. On this alien island, you will expand and grow your farm by planting crops, unlocking genetically mutated varieties, defending against waves of monster attacks, collecting relics, and more!
Farmageddon: Undead
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Herder.
Farmageddon Undead is Tower Defense, Strategy game based on post-apocalyptic Story. Step into the role of a farmer who must save the world! Lead the world leaderboards! This game won't give you anything for free. Prepare yourself, you might suffer.
Freedome Farmers
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Ranked #4 for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Herder.
Freedome Farmers is a third person coop horde defense game with up to 4 players. You use the resources you have harvested to build defenses and weapons. At night, you defend against waves of alien possessed farm animals. Will you make it through 10 days ?
Orcs Must Die!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Herder.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
Cannabis Farmer Strain Master
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Ranked #6 for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Herder.
Cannabis Farmer Strain Master is a Unique and Timeless experience to test your skills to be come the ultimate Strain Master.
Timemelters
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Ranked #7 for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Herder.
Prevent Doomsday AFTER it happened! Designed by the co-creator of Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves and featuring both a single-player and co-op campaign, TimeMelters is a strategy hero defense where you go back in time and fight alongside your past selves.
Voodolls
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Ranked #8 for Herder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Herder.
Voodolls is an Action Tower Defense game in spherical worlds. You play as voodoo dolls looking for redemption and are forced to protect your Puppet Master from the demons that are chasing you. Friends, totems, and rituals will be your most valuable assets during this crazy adventure!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Herder at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Herder.
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 ~60% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Herder.
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 ~70% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Herder.
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 ~80% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Action with Herder.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Action with Herder.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Herder.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Action with Herder.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Herder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Herder.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Herder.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Herder.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Herder.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Herder.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Herder.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Herder.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
Wires And Whiskers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Herder.
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
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Frequently asked about Herder
- How much does Herder cost?
- Herder is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Herder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Herder are NecroFarm, Gutfarm, Farmageddon: Undead.
- Who developed Herder?
- Herder was developed by Porchman 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 Herder.
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