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Games like Farmer's Diary

If Farmer's Diary is your kind of game, the closest matches are Harvest Together, The Ranchers and Gardener: Master of Trees and Flowers — 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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About Farmer's Diary: There is a lot of work to be done on this farm, a long-term adventure awaits you where you can take farming, orcharding and animal husbandry to the next level with your friends.

IndieSimulationCasualEarly AccessWindowsby FiftyEight Studios
Farmer's Diary — Steam game cover

Players who liked Farmer's Diary also play

Steam players who put hours into Farmer's Diary 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. Harvest Together

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Build a cozy farm with friends or solo! Grow crops, raise animals, and ride your horse across the meadows. Dynamic weather waters your crops when it rains and blankets your farm in winter snow. Online co-op for up to 4 players — sow together, grow together.

    2026IndieSimulationEarly AccessSteam ↗
  2. The Ranchers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Gardener: Master of Trees and Flowers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Cultivate unique gardens, timelapse seeds to blooming orchards in seconds, design procedurally generated plants, nurture ecosystems and discover rare genetic traits in wild flora, to create ultimate species, in state-of-the-art botanical simulation.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Farm Together 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in the long awaited sequel to the cozy, relaxing farming experience!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual25.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Farming Simulator 22

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

    2021Simulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Farmer's Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    🌾Unleash the Farmer within. 🚜 Dive into the rustic charm of rural living in "Farmer's Life," where you'll experience the joy and challenges of life on a vibrant farmstead. Plant, grow, and embrace a country living in a vast open world. You choose from diverse mechanics and endless possibilities.

    2023IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Farm Together

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

    2018IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Coral Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Farmer's Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 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 Farmer's Diary.

    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. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Farmer's Diary.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Farmer's Diary.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Farm Together 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in the long awaited sequel to the cozy, relaxing farming experience!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual25.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Farm Together

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

    2018IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Coral Island

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farmer's Diary.

    Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Farmer's Diary

Does Farmer's Diary have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Farmer's Diary supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Farmer's Diary?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Farmer's Diary are Harvest Together, The Ranchers, Gardener: Master of Trees and Flowers.
Who developed Farmer's Diary?
Farmer's Diary was developed by FiftyEight Studios.

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 Farmer's Diary.

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