Games like Distant Garden
If Distant Garden is your kind of game, the closest matches are friends world, Just Your Average Survival Game and Evospace — 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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friends world
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Top pick for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Distant Garden.
This is a voxel style sandbox game that focuses on survival. You can do anything inside and destroy any block. and cooperatively survive and fight with friends in a world. If you like playing Minecraft, this is a game you must not miss.
Just Your Average Survival Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Distant Garden.
"Just Your Average Survival Game" is an experience where you explore an island with a finite amount of resources. Beware of the dark past of the island.
Evospace
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Third-strongest match for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.
Realmcraft VR
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Ranked #4 for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Distant Garden.
RealmCraft is an immersive 3D sandbox VR adventure in a blocky world, blending creativity and survival. Explore a vast procedurally generated open world, mine resources, craft tools, and build anything. Fight hostile mobs, find treasures, and enjoy smooth, intuitive VR gameplay.
Luminids
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Ranked #5 for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Start and evolve a colony of Luminids, little creatures with personalities and needs of their own. Shape the land and watch them gather, build, and grow across forests, mountains, deserts, and frozen lands. Plan from above then step into first person to explore the world you built together.
Escape The Pacific
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Ranked #6 for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Raw, real survival in the Pacific. Build a modular floating base. Master realistic sailing mechanics. Face challenging Pacific-like weather & seasons. Hunt, craft, build & navigate using Sun Dial, Sextant & Triangulation. Explore an endless island cluster-based world. Simulate real life scenarios!
Icaria
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Ranked #7 for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Distant Garden.
Icaria is a robot colony builder where everything can be programmed. Build factories, design logistic networks, terraform the landscape, and explore an unknown alien world.
FOUNDRY
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Ranked #8 for Distant Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Distant Garden.
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
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Frequently asked about Distant Garden
- Does Distant Garden work on Steam Deck?
- Distant Garden is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Is Distant Garden free to play?
- Yes — Distant Garden is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Distant Garden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Distant Garden are friends world, Just Your Average Survival Game, Evospace.
- Who developed Distant Garden?
- Distant Garden was developed by Jackson Levine and published by Jackson Levine Software.
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 Distant Garden.
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