Games like Growth
If Growth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Weidengrund, Station to Station and Mini Worlds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, chill and contemplative. 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 Growth: Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of animals. Growth blends the beauty of cozy exploration with challenging navigation around obstacles.
Players who liked Growth also play
Steam players who put hours into Growth 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.
Weidengrund
WHY THIS
Top pick for Growth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Growth.
Weidengrund is a meditative medieval village diorama builder woven into a living, breathing, painterly landscape. Snap together uniquely detailed Fachwerk architecture, design organic paths that wind through windswept meadows, and tend to your hamlet as it grows into a tranquil sanctuary.
Station to Station
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving, puzzle and a chill mood with Growth.
Second-strongest match for Growth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!
Mini Worlds
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Growth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Mini Worlds is a cozy building toy about creating tiny cities on a small world. Build and decorate with no goals or timer.
WATERFUL: a tiny oasis builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Growth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
A peaceful nature-builder where you dig riverbeds to guide water through tiny desert valleys. Grow a variety of plants and discover all the animals drawn to the new habitats. Complete quests and unlock new contraptions to transform the dry landscape into a lush oasis!
The Greenening
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving, resource management, atmospheric and a chill mood with Growth.
Ranked #6 for Growth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.
Dorfromantik
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Growth.
Ranked #7 for Growth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Terra Nil
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a chill mood with Growth.
Ranked #8 for Growth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Growth
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Solitaire
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Growth.
Reviewers of Growth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Growth.
The classic card game is back in a digital version that everyone can play! Enjoy a quick game or chase after points to climb up the world rankings. 4 different settings and 3 popular game modes. Quite simply, Solitaire.
Minesweeper Classy
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Growth.
Reviewers of Growth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Growth.
A modern and stylish take on a classic logic puzzle game. Play the classic minesweeper levels, beat unique level layouts and challenges, or create and share your own level designs. Features a ton of customization options.
Dorfromantik
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Growth.
Reviewers of Growth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Nonograms
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting, puzzle solving, casual and a chill mood with Growth.
Reviewers of Growth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
Nonograms is a relaxing puzzle game where you use logic and creativity. Your goal is to reveal hidden pictures by filling in specific grid cells, based on numerical clues provided for each row and column. The games in this genre are also known as Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Hanjie, etc.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Growth at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Growth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growth.
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 Growth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Growth.
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 Growth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growth.
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 Growth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Growth.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Growth on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Growth.
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 Growth on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Growth.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Growth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growth.
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 Growth on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Growth.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Growth.
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 and Simulation with Growth.
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 and Simulation with Growth.
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 Growth.
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.
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 Growth.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growth.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growth.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Growth
- Is Growth verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Growth 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 Growth cost?
- Growth is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Growth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Growth are Weidengrund, Station to Station, Mini Worlds.
- Who developed Growth?
- Growth was developed by VoodooDuck and published by Assemble Entertainment.
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 Growth.
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