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Games like Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

If Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Russian Village Simulator on Mars, Wanderstop and No Place Like Home — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its sibling relationship feels authentic, 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 Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game: A story-driven Survival/ Farm RPG about learning to live after loss. Explore 7 emotional story arcs tackling love, grief, purpose & struggle of many kinds. Farm, Forage, Hunt and Craft to endure the deserts of 1860's Oregon (on casual/ challenge). Walk the path from mere survival to something more.

2023AdventureSimulationRPGCasual14.99 USDWindows · Linuxby Calamity Bay Games
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game — Steam game cover
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High replay value with unique story arcsRomances feel natural and nuancedSibling relationship feels authenticContemplativeCozyEmotional

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Steam players who put hours into Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game 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. Russian Village Simulator on Mars

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure15.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Wanderstop

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Second-strongest match for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. No Place Like Home

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Summer in Mara Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting and a cozy mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Ranked #4 for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    A demo of Summer in Mara. Discover the beginning of this adventure and take care of your island by harvesting your crops, fishing on your pond, and cooking. Enjoy the opening act to this farming adventure.

    2020AdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. Catizens

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Ranked #5 for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation17.77 USDSteam ↗
  6. Wylde Flowers

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting and an emotional mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Ranked #6 for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.

    2022AdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Sengoku Dynasty

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival elements with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Ranked #7 for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

    2024AdventureSimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Research Story

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Ranked #8 for Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!

    2025IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    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 Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares RPG and Casual with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    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 Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    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. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    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 ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    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 ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~93% under Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

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

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. of the Devil

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Wanderstop

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Wylde Flowers

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting and an emotional mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.

    2022AdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Research Story

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

    Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!

    2025IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game

How much does Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game cost?
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game are Russian Village Simulator on Mars, Wanderstop, No Place Like Home.
Who developed Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game?
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game was developed by Calamity Bay 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 Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game.

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