Games like Heliotropism
If Heliotropism is your kind of game, the closest matches are Plant Game, Altwaldheim: Town in Turmoil and AgriLife — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, hypnotic 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 →About Heliotropism: From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!
Players who liked Heliotropism also play
Steam players who put hours into Heliotropism 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.
Plant Game
WHY THIS
Top pick for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
Run-based plant survival and growth game about learning the world through imperfect senses. Grow leaves, roots, and resilience, unlock biological “sensors” as UI progression, and earn your reveal when you bloom or die.
Altwaldheim: Town in Turmoil
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Heliotropism.
Second-strongest match for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
Be the mayor of this great old town! Construct buildings, recruit soldiers and send them to war. Will you be able to keep Altwaldheim safe?
AgriLife
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Heliotropism.
Between turn-based management and farming game, AgriLife puts you in the shoes of a farmer. Plant your crops in a living soil, move on to the next week and watch their evolution! Master this little world, try several strategies… or just enjoy the sunshine and birdsongs.
Insurmountable
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Heliotropism.
Ranked #4 for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!
Preserve
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Heliotropism.
Ranked #5 for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heliotropism.
Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.
Kingdom's Deck
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Heliotropism.
Ranked #6 for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Roots of Yggdrasil
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Heliotropism.
Ranked #7 for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world?
Coal LLC
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a hypnotic mood with Heliotropism.
Ranked #8 for Heliotropism fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heliotropism at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliotropism.
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 ~50% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliotropism.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
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 ~50% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliotropism.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliotropism.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Heliotropism.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliotropism.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heliotropism on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heliotropism.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliotropism.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliotropism.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heliotropism.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heliotropism.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heliotropism.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Heliotropism.
『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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Heliotropism.
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!
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Frequently asked about Heliotropism
- How much does Heliotropism cost?
- Heliotropism is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heliotropism?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heliotropism are Plant Game, Altwaldheim: Town in Turmoil, AgriLife.
- Who developed Heliotropism?
- Heliotropism was developed by Verde.
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 Heliotropism.
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