Games like Hawthorn
If Hawthorn is your kind of game, the closest matches are VirtualSociety, Starting Life In Another World Naked and Stardew Valley — 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 Hawthorn: Former developers from Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog bring you the sandbox RPG realm of anthropomorphic animals and fairy creatures. This early Proof-of-Concept Demo is an intentional look back at where Hawthorn's development journey began and an invitation to shape the future of Hawthorn!
Players who liked Hawthorn also play
Steam players who put hours into Hawthorn 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.
VirtualSociety
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Top pick for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
VirtualSociety is a creative life sim where you build your own worlds, customize their residents, and design how they interact. Create the places your stories need, play as your characters, and share your worlds with friends.
Starting Life In Another World Naked
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Hawthorn.
You will venture into a world much like ours before you are "taken" to another world, a fantasy world. You are the hero of this new world, but sadly you start off with nothing. You must survive and build your way to defeating the Demon King; that's why you were summoned in the first place.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hawthorn.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Craftopia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
My Time at Sandrock
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hawthorn.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
The Ranchers
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Ranked #6 for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Roots of Pacha
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hawthorn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hawthorn.
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Hawthorn.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hawthorn.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hawthorn.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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 Hawthorn.
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.
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!
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Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hawthorn.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
My Time at Sandrock
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hawthorn.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Hawthorn.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Roots of Pacha
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hawthorn.
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Frequently asked about Hawthorn
- Does Hawthorn have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hawthorn supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hawthorn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hawthorn are VirtualSociety, Starting Life In Another World Naked, Stardew Valley.
- Who developed Hawthorn?
- Hawthorn was developed by NEARstudios and published by TBD.
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 Hawthorn.
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