Games like Loddlenaut
If Loddlenaut is your kind of game, the closest matches are GRAV Fishing, We Love Fish Tanks and Fishlets — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, 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 →Developed by Moon Lagoon and published by Secret Mode, Loddlenaut is an indie adventure released in 2023 at $19.99. Players take on the role of an interstellar custodian tasked with restoring a polluted ocean planet, blending ecosystem restoration with creature collection, crafting, and resource management across diverse biomes. Reviewers highlight the achievement-hunting loop that keeps players returning, while players describe the experience as cozy and relaxing with a whimsical atmosphere. The gameplay loop centers on cleaning up pollution, exploring underwater environments, and caring for axolotl-like alien creatures called loddles. Players describe the cleaning mechanics as satisfying and cathartic, with the creature collection providing emotional investment in the restoration process. The game runs natively on Steam Deck and holds a 99% positive rating from over 2,600 reviews.
About Loddlenaut: Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!
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GRAV Fishing
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Top pick for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Fish are drifting in space! Play as an interstellar angler tasked with returning them to their aquatic home. Explore the ocean planet Aquaria, restore it's struggling ecosystems and save floating fish.
We Love Fish Tanks
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Loddlenaut.
We Love Fish Tanks is a cozy aquarium builder. Kick back & relax, buy, breed, & sell fish (or fish-like things), and decorate your tank exactly how you'd like!
Fishlets
WHY THIS
Shares crafting, resource management and a chill mood with Loddlenaut.
Third-strongest match for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
Decorate your own aquariums and care for a variety of fish in Fishlets, a cozy fish-collecting sim! Feed, breed, sell, and collect fish and aquatic critters in the virtual tanks mode. Drop into Adventure mode and progress through 7 unique levels, unlocking even more fish while fending off threats!
Cozy Blocks: Undersea Adventure
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Ranked #4 for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
A relaxing 3D puzzle game with a block placing mechanic to play solo or with friends in Multiplayer mode! Use your wits to help Kate Nemo and the sea creatures to solve tricky missions in a captivating underwater adventure.
Otterly Lost
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Ranked #5 for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Swim, dive, and explore as a curious sea otter far from home. Meet charming animals, discover hidden places, use tools, and solve light challenges as you make your way back with your favorite rock by your side.
Totemlands
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Shares a chill mood with Loddlenaut.
Ranked #6 for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Totemlands is a relaxing crafting, building game where you raise totem poles, hunt spirits, decorate and explore the lands.
OddFauna : Secret of the Terrabeast
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Ranked #7 for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.
Mini Pond Farm: Frogs & Lilypads
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Ranked #8 for Loddlenaut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Collect all the cute frogs! Shape your pond paradise, fill it with colorful hoppers, make them happy with reeds and lilies, and enjoy pure cozy serenity.
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Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Loddlenaut.
Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.
ABZU
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Shares a relaxing mood with Loddlenaut.
Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.
Coral Island
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Loddlenaut.
Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.
PowerWash Simulator
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Shares a chill mood with Loddlenaut.
Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.
No Place Like Home
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Loddlenaut.
Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
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!
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares biome exploration with Loddlenaut.
Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Loddlenaut.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Viscera Cleanup Detail
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a chill mood with Loddlenaut.
Reviewers of Loddlenaut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Loddlenaut.
In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Loddlenaut at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Loddlenaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
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 ~50% under Loddlenaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Loddlenaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Loddlenaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
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 ~60% under Loddlenaut on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Loddlenaut.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Loddlenaut.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Loddlenaut.
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 Loddlenaut.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Loddlenaut.
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 Loddlenaut.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Loddlenaut.
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!
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Frequently asked about Loddlenaut
- Is Loddlenaut verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Loddlenaut 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 Loddlenaut cost?
- Loddlenaut is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Loddlenaut?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Loddlenaut are GRAV Fishing, We Love Fish Tanks, Fishlets.
- Who developed Loddlenaut?
- Loddlenaut was developed by Moon Lagoon and published by Secret Mode.
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