Games like Onyx
If Onyx is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Little Shop in Squirrel Town, Edengrall and Research Story — 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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Players who liked Onyx also play
Steam players who put hours into Onyx 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.
A Little Shop in Squirrel Town
WHY THIS
Top pick for Onyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
You will become the shopkeeper of grocery shop in Squirrel Town to run your own shop, replenish your stock, sell, make a profit, kill monsters, manufacture outfits, engage in agriculture, angle, cook delicious food, feed monsters and save Monster Forest controlled by the evil crystal.
Research Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Onyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!
No Place Like Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Onyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
Russian Village Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Onyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Onyx.
This is a simulator of life in the Russian countryside, where the player will be engaged in the garden, picking mushrooms and berries, collect firewood, hunting and fishing, brew moonshine and much, much more.
Ooblets
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Onyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
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!
Moonstone Island
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Onyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Onyx.
Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!
One Lonely Outpost
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Onyx fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Onyx at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Onyx on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Onyx.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Onyx on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Onyx.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Onyx on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Onyx on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Onyx.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Onyx on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Onyx.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
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?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Onyx.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Onyx.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
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.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Onyx.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Electoral Carnage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Early Access with Onyx.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Onyx.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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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.
Research Story
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!
Ooblets
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
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!
Moonstone Island
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Onyx.
Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!
One Lonely Outpost
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Onyx.
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Frequently asked about Onyx
- How much does Onyx cost?
- Onyx is listed on Steam at 0.86 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Onyx?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Onyx are A Little Shop in Squirrel Town, Edengrall, Research Story.
- Who developed Onyx?
- Onyx was developed by Dark Matter.
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 Onyx.
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