Games like HomeGrown
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to HomeGrown for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in HomeGrown also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About HomeGrown: HomeGrown is a casual clicker-style farming game in which you grow your way from a few backyard vegetable beds to a full-blown farming enterprise!
Players who liked HomeGrown also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Widle
Top pick for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HomeGrown.
Widle is a cozy 2D pixel-art idle simulation in which you tend a tiny desktop planter, watch your plant grow over time and use earned coins to unlock new species and decorative pot skins.
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Arboreal
Second-strongest match for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with HomeGrown.
Answer the call of the Nature Spirits in this peaceful tree growing simulation. Cultivate and cook various fruit species to receive help from the forest inhabitants. Automatize production with ingenious tracks and machines. Find your equilibrium to let life flourish!
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Bottled by Bears
Third-strongest match for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HomeGrown.
Join a family of bears and run the buzziest little honey farm! Collect and discover rare bees, bottle honey jars, expand your farm, and watch your flowery field bloom in this cozy idle management sim.
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Farm BoYS
Ranked #4 for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HomeGrown.
In Farm BoYS, you can enjoy the cosy experience of an idle farming game. Plant crops, catch fish and raise animals to grow your farm. Upgrade your workers and buildings, fulfil marketplace orders and uncover surprises as your farm flourishes, even when you’re away.
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Autonauts
Ranked #5 for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with HomeGrown.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Autonauts vs Piratebots
Ranked #6 for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with HomeGrown.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
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Havendock
Ranked #7 for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with HomeGrown.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
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Farm Frenzy: Refreshed
Ranked #8 for HomeGrown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with HomeGrown.
Grow and make resources to trade with the city, care for animals, and build your dream ranch in Alawar's famous Frenzy Farm with a modern twist!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with HomeGrown.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HomeGrown.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with HomeGrown.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HomeGrown.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with HomeGrown.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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The Looker
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HomeGrown.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with HomeGrown.
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.
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Frequently asked about HomeGrown
- What games are most similar to HomeGrown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HomeGrown are Widle, Arboreal, Bottled by Bears.
- Who developed HomeGrown?
- HomeGrown was developed by ThinMatrix.
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 HomeGrown.
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