Games like CritterGarden
If CritterGarden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Suizokukan Project, Tiny Slime Farm and Seedrun — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and cozy. 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 CritterGarden: You are an astrobiologist stranded on a lifeless planet. Breathe new life into this mysterious world by gathering plants, animals, and research upgrades to help it grow back to its full potential. Collect, breed, and evolve over 90 cute and quirky Critters to help you on your journey back home!
Players who liked CritterGarden also play
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Suizokukan Project
WHY THIS
Top pick for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with CritterGarden.
Turn your desktop into an aquarium! Fish, collect, earn, and decorate your aquarium. Suizokukan Project makes for the perfect companion while you do menial work in your computer.
Tiny Slime Farm
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
A cozy desktop idle game where cute slimes bounce around your tiny farm while you work or study.
Seedrun
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with CritterGarden.
Cultivate a secluded cave in this short & minimalist farming game. Gather resources, get upgrades through a big skill tree and grow living plants that help you fulfill tasks!
Outcity
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
Tired of big city life, you move to Outcity to start fresh in the countryside. Build your farm your way in a cozy sandbox where imagination has no limits and friendly villagers help your homestead grow into a thriving village. Gather your determination, your creativity, and get to work!
Happy Sheepies
WHY THIS
Shares farming, simulation, casual and a cozy mood with CritterGarden.
Ranked #5 for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
Happy Sheepies is a relaxing sheep farming game that includes some Crafting and Business Management elements with its simple Drag & Drop gameplay. Meet the needs of your sheepies, craft and sell your products, and grow your business!
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with CritterGarden.
Ranked #6 for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Time Is Honey
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with CritterGarden.
Ranked #7 for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with CritterGarden.
Time Is Honey is a relaxing idle game where you manage bee hives. Collect unique bees by opening bee packs, take care of them in real-time and then turn it all into profit. Unlock, upgrade and customize your hives, and enjoy completing your collection of bees.
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with CritterGarden.
Ranked #8 for CritterGarden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CritterGarden at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CritterGarden.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CritterGarden.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CritterGarden.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CritterGarden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 CritterGarden.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden.
‘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 CritterGarden.
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 CritterGarden
- How much does CritterGarden cost?
- CritterGarden is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CritterGarden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CritterGarden are Suizokukan Project, Tiny Slime Farm, Seedrun.
- Who developed CritterGarden?
- CritterGarden was developed by Minjonia Studios.
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