Games like Home By The River
If Home By The River is your kind of game, the closest matches are Underlings, The Dream Within and Dinkum — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Home By The River: This is a resource gathering, crafting RPG, where you build your home from scratch and make whatever design you want. You start with a dead polluted land that you transform into a beautiful homestead by a river. Play single player or LAN Co-op.
Players who liked Home By The River also play
Steam players who put hours into Home By The River 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.
Underlings
WHY THIS
Top pick for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Become one of the "evil" creatures and try to survive a world where everything wants you dead, gather resources, craft them into powerful items, build a base to protect yourself from everlasting raids or challenge your bosses to be more than an underling.
The Dream Within
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Home By The River.
A pixel-graphics open world survival craft RPG, where player is locked in a deep dream world, survive in this elusive world, forage, hunt, mine, and build up shelters. Find a way to escape.
Dinkum
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Forager
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Spirit of the Island
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
Mirthwood
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Home By The River.
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Survive on Raft
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Home By The River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Home By The River at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
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 Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Home By The River.
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 Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
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 Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Home By The River.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
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 Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Home By The River.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Home By The River on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
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 Home By The River.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Home By The River.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from GTGD
Other recommendable Steam games by GTGD, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Choo Choo Survivor
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!
Gamer To Game Developer Series 1: More Than a Gamer
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River.
Welcome to the new GTGD S1, a Unity 2017 multiplayer tutorial for game developers. This training course is of intermediate difficulty so you should first be familiar with the basics of coding in Unity. This tutorial will teach you the key elements of the Unity 2017 multiplayer system.
Gamer To Game Developer Series 2 Learn Unity 2D
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River.
Welcome to Gamer To Game Developer Series 2 LEARN UNITY 2D, relaunched for Unity 2021 / 2022. In this series you will learn how to use the Unity 2D tilemap dynamically so that you develop a neat 2D construction system for making Terraria like games and you will learn to code in C#.
Guild Commander
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
In Guild Commander you manage your guild to victory! Deploy your guild members and save your world from the Necro Lord!
Gamer To Game Developer Series 3: Make A Game
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River.
Welcome to Gamer To Game Developer Series 3, an in-depth set of video tutorials where you will learn to code an awesome single player FPS system from scratch in Unity. If you want to learn how to make a game the smart way then you've come to the right place.
Weekend Drive
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River. Shares Indie with Home By The River.
Giants, zombies, aliens, dinosaurs, a fully destructible city with fun vehicles (including helicopter!) and weapons at your disposable, yes Weekend Drive is way ahead of the curve! Get set for a fun unique full on action first person shooter experience!
Model City
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
Welcome to Model City, a calm relaxing small game where you can't lose or do anything wrong.
Zero Distance
WHY THIS
Another title from GTGD, the studio behind Home By The River. Shares Indie and RPG with Home By The River.
Take the role of an Arabian freedom fighter defending against the hordes of Zion who have enslaved the super powers of the world! Seamlessly play top down or FPS. Defeat all 20 waves to win! Upgrade your weapons and abilities between waves to become powerful.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Home By The River.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Forager
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Spirit of the Island
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Home By The River.
A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!
Mirthwood
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Home By The River.
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
Frequently asked about Home By The River
- Does Home By The River run on Steam Deck?
- Home By The River 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 Home By The River cost?
- Home By The River is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Home By The River have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Home By The River supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, LAN Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Home By The River?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Home By The River are Underlings, The Dream Within, Dinkum.
- Who developed Home By The River?
- Home By The River was developed by GTGD.
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 Home By The River.
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