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Games like Garlic Builder

If Garlic Builder is your kind of game, the closest matches are BirdsBorough : Town of Alchemy, Urban Entrepreneur and Shuttle World — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming village story, cute garlic protagonist and chill. 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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About Garlic Builder: Garlic Builder is a unique building game. As the new builder of the Garlic Family, can you inherit your father's building hammer, take various orders, follow the blueprint, or use your imagination to fulfill the strange needs of your customers?

2024IndieSimulationRPGCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby CaveLiquid
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Steam players who put hours into Garlic Builder 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.

  1. BirdsBorough : Town of Alchemy

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Build and run your own alchemy store, make your own unique custom potions and learn the stories of the residents, in the ominous town of BirdsBorough...

    2023IndieSimulationRPGFreeSteam ↗
  2. Urban Entrepreneur

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Shuttle World

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Garlic Builder.

    Shuttle World is a first person open world sandbox game, integrating exploration, construction, survival, entertainment and other elements. Players can embark on adventures alone in the game, exploring the entire vast planet! Various free gameplay, welcome to download...

    2023SimulationRPGEarly Access11.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Mission: Rift seeker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Mission: Rift seeker is a colony simulation game about building and managing your base on an unknown planet and exploring the surrounding void rifts that are full of horrific and mysterious entities that you are tasked to capture before they to eat the brave and fluffy seekers that you command.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Dream Hotel Master

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Garlic Builder.

    Manage and operate your dream hotels, expand your business, enhance hotel services, and attract more guests to create a unique five-star hotel!

    2024SimulationRPGCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Recycling Center Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares crafting, resource management, casual and a peaceful mood with Garlic Builder.

    Ranked #6 for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

    2024IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Mouse People

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Mouse people is an experiential commercial game. Please use your mouse to click, drag and destroy people and things. Be chill , face up to your your own thoughts.

    2022IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Comic Company Manager

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Garlic Builder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Comic Company Manager is a comic book themed management game. Create your own comic publishing company and design your own ideas from combining 100+ concepts. Hire and manage artists to create comics for you and expand your company. Grow to dominate the industry

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Garlic Builder

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Garlic Builder cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Garlic Builder.

    Reviewers of Garlic Builder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    A unique artist sim game with realistic paint mixing, physics and numerous painting tools. Upgrade and customize your studio, complete tasks, sell and expose art, buy instruments and get famous!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Minecraft Legends

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Garlic Builder.

    Reviewers of Garlic Builder cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!

    2023ActionStrategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Garlic Builder at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garlic Builder.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garlic Builder.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~81% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garlic Builder.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~88% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Garlic Builder.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Garlic Builder.

    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!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Garlic Builder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Garlic Builder.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garlic Builder.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Garlic Builder.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garlic Builder.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Garlic Builder.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garlic Builder.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Garlic Builder.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Garlic Builder

Does Garlic Builder run on Steam Deck?
Garlic Builder 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 Garlic Builder cost?
Garlic Builder is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Garlic Builder?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Garlic Builder are BirdsBorough : Town of Alchemy, Urban Entrepreneur, Shuttle World.
Who developed Garlic Builder?
Garlic Builder was developed by CaveLiquid and published by Gamersky Games.

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 Garlic Builder.

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