Games like Garden Buddies
If Garden Buddies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fields of Aaru, Cottonville and Timber Life — 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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Players who liked Garden Buddies also play
Steam players who put hours into Garden Buddies 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.
Fields of Aaru
WHY THIS
Top pick for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
A cozy life sim set in the mystical afterlife of Ancient Egypt. Farm along the Nile, befriend the locals, and decorate your eternal home. Venture into the desert and discover oases, pyramids, and tombs. Unlock magical powers by restoring ancient obelisks and making offerings to the gods.
Cottonville
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Garden Buddies.
Create, farm, and style in Cottonville – a cozy dress-up game with farming and sim mechanics!
Timber Life
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Casual with Garden Buddies.
Build and customize your homestead of timber, crops, and animals, while you manage the eco diversity of a small town. Go off exploring and foraging in the woods while evading predators. Craft goods and get to know the local townsfolk in this wholesome and cozy farming life sim.
My Time at Portia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Garden Buddies.
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?
Summer in Mara
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.
Hokko Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Dinkum
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Garden Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Garden Buddies at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Garden Buddies.
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 ~67% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Garden Buddies.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garden Buddies.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Garden Buddies.
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 ~67% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Garden Buddies.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Garden Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Garden Buddies.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Garden Buddies.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garden Buddies.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Casual with Garden Buddies.
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 and Adventure with Garden Buddies.
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 Garden Buddies.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Garden Buddies
- Does Garden Buddies run on Steam Deck?
- Garden Buddies 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 Garden Buddies cost?
- Garden Buddies is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Garden Buddies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Garden Buddies are Fields of Aaru, Cottonville, Timber Life.
- Who developed Garden Buddies?
- Garden Buddies was developed by JamPics and published by RedDeer.Games, Untold Tales .
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 Garden Buddies.
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