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Games like ChingMing

If ChingMing is your kind of game, the closest matches are Welcome to Elite Cafe, SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist and Out of Ore — 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 ChingMing: As a Taoist from the Heavenly Master's Mansion, you will come down the mountain to experience various demons and monsters on this land. You need to personally build a camp, search for food, establish defenses, and do everything you can to survive.

2024StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasual1.99 USDWindowsby Summer
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Players who liked ChingMing also play

Steam players who put hours into ChingMing 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. Welcome to Elite Cafe

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for ChingMing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ChingMing.

    A heart-pounding café management game! Serve customers, cook meals, and invent new menu items — Elite Cafe is busy again today! You can even make your own cookies and drinks. Change outfits and your favorite character becomes the manager?

    2026IndieSimulationCasual8.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation17.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Out of Ore

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for ChingMing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with ChingMing.

    A casual heavy equipment experience. Mine ore, Move dirt, Build and repair.

    2022StrategyAdventureSimulation24.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Catizens

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for ChingMing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ChingMing.

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation17.77 USDSteam ↗
  5. Territory: Farming and Warfare

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for ChingMing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ChingMing.

    From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sugar Shack

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for ChingMing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ChingMing.

    Grab some friends, fire up the boiler, and let the syrup flow! Build the world around your cabin as you fulfill orders of hungry villagers with endless sweet tooths. There's never a dull moment in this cozy forest inspired by Quebec lore and art!

    2023IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Farmington County: The Ultimate Farming Tycoon Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for ChingMing fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ChingMing.

    Farming & town living sim. Develop the farm of your dreams using tools, tractors, trucks & other vehicles. Build cabins, sheds, barns, and more! Hire workers to help out in your farm. Grow thousands of crops, raise hundreds of livestock and explore the world of Farmington County!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Timberborn

    WHY THIS

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

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ChingMing.

    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. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with ChingMing.

    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 ↗
  3. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with ChingMing.

    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 ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ChingMing.

    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 ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ChingMing.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Casual with ChingMing.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ChingMing.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under ChingMing on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with ChingMing.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

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

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about ChingMing

How much does ChingMing cost?
ChingMing is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to ChingMing?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ChingMing are Welcome to Elite Cafe, SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist, Out of Ore.
Who developed ChingMing?
ChingMing was developed by Summer.

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 ChingMing.

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