Games like Halcyon Days at Taoyuan
If Halcyon Days at Taoyuan is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frog Island, Retire in the Fairy Mountains and Ooblets — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bartering replaces money, classical chinese aesthetics shine and atmospheric. 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 Halcyon Days at Taoyuan: Welcome to Taoyuan Village to heal your loneliness. Here, you can lead a carefree, self-sufficient life: farm, tame animals, raise livestock, fish, and build a prosperous homestead. Or, immerse in village life, meet kindred spirits, find love, and influence their destinies with your choices.

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Frog Island
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Top pick for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Start your new life as a caretaker for an island of frogs in this cozy creature-collector! Build your dream island, discover magical wildlife, and uncover the island's many hidden secrets, to try and piece together the past life you've somehow forgotten.
Retire in the Fairy Mountains
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Second-strongest match for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Retire in the Fairy Mountains is a Chinese-style farming game that integrates planting, fishing, livestock breeding, cooking, mining and free building. Players take on the role of a farmer at the foot of the Immortal Mountain, unlock various interesting items and build their own world.
Ooblets
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Shares a cozy mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Third-strongest match for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Moonlit Horizons
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Ranked #4 for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
After you start seeing and hearing things, you receive an invitation to the First Continent. With only a small shack, a few seeds, and a handful of coins, a new life begins. Uncover Moonlit Cove’s secrets in a farming sim with surprise elements, where no two playthroughs are the same!
Isle Frontier
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Ranked #5 for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Make a life of your own in this isometric point-and-click life simulator. Level up your skills by fishing, hunting, cooking, crafting, and much more. The island has everything you need to not only survive, but thrive!
Field of Growth: A Farmer's Odyssey
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Ranked #6 for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Embark on a first-person farming simulator in Field of Growth: A Farmer's Odyssey. Cultivate your land, craft, gather resources, raise livestock, and defend your farm. Every sunrise brings new adventures. Are you ready to grow?
Evergreen Tavern
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Ranked #7 for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Run a cozy medieval tavern... staffed by monsters from your basement! Grow and cook delicious things and serve them to your customers. Decorate and customize your place. Explore dark places, befriend and hire monsters, and sell your loot for a good price!
Monster Harvest
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Shares a chill mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Ranked #8 for Halcyon Days at Taoyuan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Monster Harvest is a monster collecting and farming action RPG with a twist! Grow, collect and mutate your crops then take them into battle! Filled with places to discover and multiple ways to build your farm, get ready to craft, explore and battle across the vibrant world of Planimal Point.
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Stardew Valley
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Shares a peaceful mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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?
Roots of Pacha
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Shares bartering and a chill mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Potion Permit
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Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG and Casual with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.
Sun Haven
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Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!
Peaceful Days
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Shares crafting and a peaceful mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Take over a cozy local farm in the charming seaside town of Aurora, meet friendly locals, reveal the secrets and enjoy your new peaceful life!
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
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Shares farming, relationship building, slice of life and an atmospheric mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Welcome to the eastern nation of Azuma! In this fresh take on Rune Factory, use your powers as an Earth Dancer to restore the land, its people, and even its gods. Along the way, battle corrupted monsters, rebuild seasonal farms and villages, and form bonds with the colorful locals.
Fields of Mistria
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
World's Dawn
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Shares relationship building, mini games and a cozy mood with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Reviewers of Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Bring life back to a sleepy seaside village by building friendships, finding love, harvesting crops, tending livestock, competing in festivals, fishing, mining, discovering magical secrets and more!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Halcyon Days at Taoyuan at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~54% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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
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Priced ~54% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~42% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~54% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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
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Priced ~54% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~91% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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 ~72% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
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Priced ~44% under Halcyon Days at Taoyuan on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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
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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 Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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 and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Halcyon Days at Taoyuan.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Halcyon Days at Taoyuan
- Does Halcyon Days at Taoyuan run on Steam Deck?
- Halcyon Days at Taoyuan 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 Halcyon Days at Taoyuan cost?
- Halcyon Days at Taoyuan is listed on Steam at 10.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Halcyon Days at Taoyuan?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Halcyon Days at Taoyuan are Frog Island, Retire in the Fairy Mountains, Ooblets.
- Who developed Halcyon Days at Taoyuan?
- Halcyon Days at Taoyuan was developed by BotanX and published by 方块游戏(CubeGame).
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