Games like Guardener
If Guardener is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sprite's Honor!, NecroFarm and Cheaphaven — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bite sized roguelite runs, challenging and stressful. 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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Steam players who put hours into Guardener 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.
Sprite's Honor!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Gnomes stole your boat parts! Gather resources to master Fae powers. Farm mythical creatures and build a colony to defeat the gnome kings and get back home!
NecroFarm
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Guardener.
Turn your crops into minions and they will fend off waves of enemies in this top-down horde survival farming game. A mix of strategy and fast-paced farming that challenges you to defend the farm with your crop minions or even harvest them for gold! Gain new seeds and grow your army!
Cheaphaven
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Guardener.
Third-strongest match for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Cheaphaven features a brief respite full of farming, building and upgrading, a small town of NPCs for all your chatting and shopping needs, and vaguely humorous descriptions for everyday items. Day/night cycle, market values, a pigeon, all the things that are supposed to be in a farming game
Grandiose
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy. Land on the island that will become your domain in a universe soon to be borrowed from the ingenious and creative abilities of your mind.
Industrial Petting
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Guardener.
Ranked #5 for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Guardener.
Ranked #6 for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Guardener.
Employ lethal turrets, traps, and gadgets to defend against an onslaught of evolving creeps! Step into a twisted, hyper 3D, mind bending realm. Upgrade and adapt your defenses. Become a master maze crafter. Collect bizarre artifacts. Rush creeps for lucrative rewards, and succumb to greed!
Northend Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Guardener.
Ranked #7 for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
Jump into a realtime strategy, action filled battlefield, deploy relentless soldiers, unlock powerful troops and vehicles, upgrade your army, decimate the enemy. If that's not enough, jump into a chaotic Zombie mode, with traps, fun upgrades, and a new gameplay!
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Guardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guardener at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Guardener on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Guardener on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardener.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Guardener on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardener.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Guardener on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Guardener on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardener.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Guardener on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Guardener on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guardener.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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 Guardener.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardener.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guardener.
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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More from Sokpop Collective
Other recommendable Steam games by Sokpop Collective, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Stacklands
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guardener.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Guardener. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Simmiland
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite runs and a whimsical mood with Guardener.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Guardener. Shares Indie with Guardener.
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Grunn
WHY THIS
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Guardener. Shares Indie with Guardener.
A gardener gets hired for maintenance work over the weekend. A simple task, but strangely some tools are missing… The owner of the garden isn't around, and their house is off-limits. Perhaps new tools can be found in the mysterious town, or maybe some of the reserved townsfolk have seen them?
pyramida
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Guardener.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Guardener. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
clickyland
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Guardener.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Guardener. Shares Strategy with Guardener.
clickyland is a tower defense village builder where clicks are your main resource. Use clicks to harvest resources, fight enemies and manage your village, but use them wisely as you only get 20 clicks every day! Can you reach day 100?
White Lavender
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Guardener.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Guardener. Shares Indie with Guardener.
A challenging adventure game with RPG-elements. Be a bug, fight other critters with swords and magic, collect powerful items such as pencils and teaspoons, meet cool characters, and up your fashion game on a journey to brew a special tea!
Luckitown
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Guardener.
Another title from Sokpop Collective, the studio behind Guardener. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardener.
Luckitown is a turn-based tower defense where you roll dice to build new structures and cast spells to defend your town.
Frequently asked about Guardener
- Does Guardener run on Steam Deck?
- Guardener is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Guardener cost?
- Guardener is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Guardener?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guardener are Sprite's Honor!, NecroFarm, Cheaphaven.
- Who developed Guardener?
- Guardener was developed by Sokpop Collective.
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