Games like Mike's Garden
If Mike's Garden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Magic Bubbles, Matching Meadows and Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle — 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.
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Magic Bubbles
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Top pick for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mike's Garden.
A classic puzzle both simple and challenging. It offers an engaging gameplay that will exercise cognitive skills like strategy, logic and problem-solving. With charming graphics, relaxing sound effects and availability on multiple platforms, Magic Bubbles is a must play for gamers of all ages.
Matching Meadows
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mike's Garden.
Matching Meadows is a deck-based puzzle game that combines the simple pleasures of building a vibrant city with challenging objectives. Build your own idyllic landscape! To reach the top of the leaderboards, you'll have to strategize and carefully plan ahead.
Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Mike's Garden.
The new adventures of Lucian and his friend XO! This time the friends are traveling through mysterious planets in search of delicacies!
Match! The 12 CZ Wars
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Ranked #4 for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mike's Garden.
"Match! The 12 CZ Wars" is a roguelike strategy game blending match-3 and buff-building. Partner with 12 Zodiac Maidens to repel ancient primordial beasts. Navigate random events, battles, and upgrades. Carefully choose paths, manage resources, and empower your Maidens to secure victory.
Spin Tactics
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Ranked #5 for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mike's Garden.
SpinTactics is a tactical slot-machine roguelike built on real decisions. Spend limited Actions, craft powerful combos, stack rune synergies, and push your luck against escalating bosses.
Gambetto
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Ranked #6 for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mike's Garden.
Gambetto is a fast-paced PvP card game that fuses chess tactics with deep deck-building. Command pieces on a 5×5 board, create clever combos, and outsmart opponents. Play competitively or craft custom game modes for endless strategic variety.
Conquest Tactics : Realm of Sin
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Ranked #7 for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mike's Garden.
Conquest Tactics: Realm of Sin is a dark-fantasy roguelite tactics game. Command your army and engage in turn-based battles on a hex-based board as you advance step by step to conquer a land shrouded in sin. Your choices carry weight: will you restore order… or allow eternal darkness to reign?
Chess Brain
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Ranked #8 for Mike's Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mike's Garden.
Chess Brain is a chess puzzle game. Draw the correct path and don't let the King get killed by the opposite pieces! Every second all the pieces will move!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mike's Garden at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
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
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Priced ~50% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
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
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Priced ~75% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Mike's Garden.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Mike's Garden on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Mike's Garden.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
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 Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mike's Garden.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mike's Garden.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mike's Garden.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mike's Garden.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Mike's Garden.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Mike's Garden
- How much does Mike's Garden cost?
- Mike's Garden is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mike's Garden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mike's Garden are Magic Bubbles, Matching Meadows, Fish Story: Gourmet Puzzle.
- Who developed Mike's Garden?
- Mike's Garden was developed by Unchew Studios.
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 Mike's Garden.
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