Games like Whelm
If Whelm is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Regreening, HiroBot: Clean & Restore and Project Shoreline — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Whelm: Whelm is an open world, physics playground. Save animals. Tidy up beaches. Restore strange machines. Don't forget to wear a hat.
Players who liked Whelm also play
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The Regreening
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Top pick for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
The Regreening is a cozy simulation game about restoring nature in a soilpunk fairytale. Grow plants to create living ecosystems, become friends with ancient spirits, make your own upcycling hub, and hug ALL the animals! Can you transform this deserted world into a joyful home again?
HiroBot: Clean & Restore
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
HiroBot: Clean & Restore is a relaxing single-player game you can enjoy at your own pace. Clean up dirt, dispose of trash, and restore objects. Reach every nook and cranny with your jetpack, and experience the satisfaction of bringing grimy areas back to life!
Project Shoreline
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Whelm.
Step into the tiny metaphorical shoes of a Muri, entrusted with the important task of exploring, cleaning, and restoring a corrupted and decaying beach, one sparkling satisfying patch at a time, in this cute cozy mini-adventure - Project Shoreline!
Stay: Your Forever Pet!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
Meet Ember, your furry magical companion! Bring her home, care for her, and discover the extraordinary world of the Otherlands together. Stay: Your Forever Pet! is brought to you by the team behind the VR title Stay: Forever Home.
NOK
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Ranked #5 for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
Get ready to NOK household items out of camps, aquariums and trains! Fling objects and make a huge mess in this weird, prize-awarded, physics-based 3D hidden object game to find items hinted by absurd dad jokes with satisfying “Aha!” moments that make you feel very, very smart.
Heartwood Village
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Ranked #6 for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
Team up and help Heartwood Village prepare for a festival in a tiny open world whilst exploring, collecting and being silly together and growing your friendships along the way.
Smushi Come Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!
Little Chef: Cozy Cooking
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Whelm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
Little Chef: Cozy Cooking is a physics-based cooking game full of discovery and playful chaos. Experiment with everything in the kitchen and unlock over 150 recipes on your way to becoming a master chef!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Whelm at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Whelm.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whelm.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
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 ~58% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whelm.
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 ~75% under Whelm on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whelm.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whelm.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Whelm.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
100 Asian Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whelm.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Whelm.
『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.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whelm.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whelm.
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!
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Frequently asked about Whelm
- Does Whelm work on Steam Deck?
- Whelm is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Whelm cost?
- Whelm is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Whelm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Whelm are The Regreening, HiroBot: Clean & Restore, Project Shoreline.
- Who developed Whelm?
- Whelm was developed by Lesser 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 Whelm.
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