Games like Wildmender
If Wildmender is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starseed, Russian Village Simulator on Mars and Dinkum — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and relaxing. 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 →Wildmender is a sandbox gardening strategy game developed by Muse Games and published by Kwalee, released in 2023 at $24.99. Players terraform a desert environment into a lush oasis using garden-terraforming, oasis-management, and plant-crossbreeding mechanics, with procedural-garden-generation ensuring each playthrough differs. Combat-with-spells and environmental-hazards add challenging gameplay alongside the simulation elements. The game supports online_coop for multiplayer sessions and runs verified on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, cozy, relaxing, and whimsical, with players highlighting the uniquely beautiful music and visuals, satisfying late-game progression, and the compelling goal of restoring life to a corrupted world. The 89% positive review score from 1023 Steam reviews reflects appreciation for its ambitious scope and blend of strategy and survival crafting.
About Wildmender: A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Players who liked Wildmender also play
Steam players who put hours into Wildmender 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.
Starseed
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Top pick for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Starseed is an immersive farming sim that blends tranquility and subtle dark undertones in an atmosphere of isolation. Millions of miles from civilization, you find yourself alone on distant worlds, working without the distraction of combat. It’s a peaceful experience about saving our home world.
Russian Village Simulator on Mars
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.
Dinkum
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Wildmender.
Third-strongest match for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildmender.
Ranked #4 for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
No Place Like Home
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildmender.
Ranked #5 for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
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!
Satisfactory
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Ranked #6 for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
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!
Force of Nature
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Ranked #7 for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
CryoFall
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Ranked #8 for Wildmender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wildmender at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wildmender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wildmender.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Wildmender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Wildmender on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Wildmender.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Wildmender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wildmender.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Wildmender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wildmender.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
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 Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Wildmender.
『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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Wildmender.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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More from Muse Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Muse Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Guns of Icarus Online
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Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Wildmender. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.
Embr
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Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Wildmender. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildmender.
Fight fires for fun and profit in this unpredictable and frantic multiplayer game. Team up with friends, take on daily challenges and climb to the top of the corporate firefighting ladder. More than one way to become a hero!
Guns of Icarus Alliance
WHY THIS
Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Wildmender. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wildmender.
Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.
Flight of the Icarus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildmender.
Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Wildmender. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
Flight of the Icarus is a game where you play as a privateer who owns an airship that helps ferry goods from town to town in a post-apocalyptic world where the skies are dominated by pirates and danger. Shoot down enemy aeroplanes with a variety of deadly weaponry. Keep the ship from falling out the sky.
CreaVures
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildmender.
Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Wildmender. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
Take control of five cute, mystical creatures of miniature proportions called CreaVures. CreaVures always travel in pairs, and they must use their special abilities to help each other solve interesting platforming puzzles.
Hamsterdam
WHY THIS
Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Wildmender. Shares Indie with Wildmender.
An arcade brawler where you become the Hamster-fu master to save the town of Hamsterdam. Will you be the hero your town needs? Will you defeat the whisker twister in chief, the vile Chinchilla Marlo? You bet your bushy tail!
Stars of Icarus
WHY THIS
Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Wildmender. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wildmender.
The ultimate space battle PvP experience. Captain frigates, pilot fighters, and man the guns. In the forgotten arenas of space, communication with your crew is key. Victory or death, together.
Frequently asked about Wildmender
- Is Wildmender verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Wildmender 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 Wildmender cost?
- Wildmender is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Wildmender have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Wildmender supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Wildmender?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wildmender are Starseed, Russian Village Simulator on Mars, Dinkum.
- Who developed Wildmender?
- Wildmender was developed by Muse Games and published by Kwalee.
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