Games like The Merlies
If The Merlies is your kind of game, the closest matches are 艾人的长夜, Jasper's Island and Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition — 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 The Merlies: Meet the Merlies, a tiny birds community trying to find harmony in a cute post-apocalyptic world filled with the remains of a long forgotten civilization. Gather your birdies, explore this wild world with your tiny bird squad and complete your village out of collected scraps!
Players who liked The Merlies also play
Steam players who put hours into The Merlies 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.
Jasper's Island
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Merlies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
Start a new job as a Lighthouse Keeper and team up with a stray cat in your cabin. Explore a lost island of creatures and locate new tools to take care of the wild and forgotten. Your journey will take you across oceans, caves, forests and deeper into the history of the island.
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Merlies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
Neva
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Merlies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
Tropical Resort Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Merlies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Merlies.
It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Merlies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Merlies.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Everdream Valley
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Merlies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.
Primal Planet
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Merlies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
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 with The Merlies.
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 The Merlies.
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 The Merlies.
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 The Merlies.
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 with The Merlies.
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 The Merlies.
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 The Merlies.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
Neva
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.
Tropical Resort Story
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Merlies.
It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Merlies.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Primal Planet
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Merlies.
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
Frequently asked about The Merlies
- What games are most similar to The Merlies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Merlies are 艾人的长夜, Jasper's Island, Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition.
- Who developed The Merlies?
- The Merlies was developed by Darjeeling, ARTE France and published by ARTE France, GCORES PUBLISHING.
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 The Merlies.
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