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Games like Population Goals!

If Population Goals! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Liberation Mutagenix, Reality Rifts and How To Bathe Your Cat: Impossible Mission — 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 Population Goals!: Mine, discover, and build to help your newly cloned citizens avoid traps and enemies on their way to the New Earth portal. Create safe pathways through different biomes in this lemmings-like puzzle strategy game, on your way to meeting your Population Goals!

2024ActionStrategyAdventureCasual3.99 USDWindowsby Thirty55 Design
Population Goals! — Steam game cover

Players who liked Population Goals! also play

Steam players who put hours into Population Goals! 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. Liberation Mutagenix

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Guide your comrades to freedom in this gravity-bending sci-fi puzzle game. Modify their genetic code, direct their movements, and provide them with the tools they need to escape.

    2021Indie1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Reality Rifts

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Population Goals!.

    3D platformer with a portal gun! Solve puzzles, exciting levels, become a master of portal travel.

    2024ActionSportsStrategy3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. How To Bathe Your Cat: Impossible Mission

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Population Goals!.

    Bathing a cat is a difficult task, but sometimes it's necessary. Use drills, blowers, rockets and a grappling hook to destroy the ground and make the water reach the cat! Can you complete this hard mission?

    2022IndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. MOVERS IN THE WAREHOUSE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Population Goals!.

    MOVERS IN THE WAREHOUSE is a puzzle game about workers in a warehouse with strategy and arcade elements, made in a 2D drawn style.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. TitTok

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Population Goals!.

    TitTok - Minimalistic adventure 2D puzzle platformer with cats, explosions and spinning saws! TikTok ≠ TitTok

    2021IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Until We Die

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Population Goals!.

    Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

    2021ActionStrategyAdventure16.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Leap Year

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Population Goals!.

    Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PONCHO

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Population Goals! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Population Goals!.

    A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?

    2015ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Population Goals! at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Population Goals!.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Population Goals!.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Population Goals!.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Population Goals!.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Population Goals!.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Population Goals!.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Population Goals!.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Population Goals! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Population Goals!.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Population Goals!.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Population Goals!.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Population Goals!.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Population Goals!.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Population Goals!.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Population Goals!.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Population Goals!.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Population Goals!

How much does Population Goals! cost?
Population Goals! is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Population Goals!?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Population Goals! are Liberation Mutagenix, Reality Rifts, How To Bathe Your Cat: Impossible Mission.
Who developed Population Goals!?
Population Goals! was developed by Thirty55 Design.

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 Population Goals!.

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