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Games like Bone Meal

If Bone Meal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Len's Island, Good For Nothing and NEO Scavenger — 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 Bone Meal: Plant strange, mutated crops in a chilling roguelike with strategic resource management. Use a wide variety of seeds through three seasons to survive the blinding glow of the sun. Brew tonics, produce biofuel, upgrade facilities, and don't go hungry.

2024StrategyIndieAdventureCasual10.99 USDWindowsby Rook Book Games
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Players who liked Bone Meal also play

Steam players who put hours into Bone Meal 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. Len's Island

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bone Meal.

    An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Good For Nothing

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bone Meal.

    Good For Nothing is a cozy scavenger shop game where you explore dumpsters, storage units, and forgotten thrift stores to find hidden gems or total junk. Sell your finds, charm oddball customers, and turn garbage into gold, one questionable item at a time.

    2025StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. NEO Scavenger

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bone Meal.

    NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Don't Starve

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bone Meal.

    Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

    2013IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Flame in the Flood

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bone Meal.

    A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Insurmountable

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bone Meal.

    Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magicite

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bone Meal.

    Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

    2014ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Card Survival: Tropical Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Bone Meal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bone Meal.

    Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bone Meal at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Bone Meal.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Bone Meal.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bone Meal.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Bone Meal.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bone Meal.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Bone Meal.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~91% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bone Meal.

    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 ↗
  8. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Bone Meal on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Bone Meal.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Bone Meal.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Bone Meal.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bone Meal.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bone Meal.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bone Meal.

    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 ↗
  6. 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 Casual with Bone Meal.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bone Meal.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Bone Meal

How much does Bone Meal cost?
Bone Meal is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Bone Meal?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bone Meal are Len's Island, Good For Nothing, NEO Scavenger.
Who developed Bone Meal?
Bone Meal was developed by Rook Book Games.

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 Bone Meal.

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