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Games like South America Gold Rush

If South America Gold Rush is your kind of game, the closest matches are Be Hero, Eden Island and Russian Village Simulator — 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 South America Gold Rush: Bandeirantes invites the player to experience the life of one of the bandeirantes who explored Brazil in the 17th century. Come to the first historicly correct game of it's kind. Survival Crafting placed in the Brazilian Rain Forest.

2025ActionStrategyIndieAdventureEarly Access9.99 USDWindowsby Argo Games
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Players who liked South America Gold Rush also play

Steam players who put hours into South America Gold Rush 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. Be Hero

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    Be Hero is a farming/crafting RPG about an aspiring hero who arrived late to the final battle and needs to work in a tavern to be able to return home.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Eden Island

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Russian Village Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with South America Gold Rush.

    This is a simulator of life in the Russian countryside, where the player will be engaged in the garden, picking mushrooms and berries, collect firewood, hunting and fishing, brew moonshine and much, much more.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Age Of Omens

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with South America Gold Rush.

    Survive in a medieval world filled with tower-defense, magic, exploration, and building. Use a unique directional combat system. Explore a rich world with dynamic weather that impacts gameplay. Uncover the secrets of the land and emerge victorious in this ultimate survival game.

    2019ActionAdventureRPG15.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Alaska Gold Fever

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with South America Gold Rush.

    Step into the role of a gold prospector during the Alaskan gold rush and build your own empire from scratch. Mine resources, refine different forms of gold, and upgrade your tools to increase efficiency. Explore diverse mines, survive the harsh climate, and complete engaging story and side quests!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie16.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Era of Survival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with South America Gold Rush.

    A new era begins as nature restores balance, ushering in a world rich with plants and animals. Survival now demands farming, hunting, and shelter. Will you rise to the challenge and make your mark?

    2020ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Florida Simulator 1986

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    Play as Kevin the gator' hunter during the hot Florida summer of 86' in this super immersive s i m u l a t i o n 😎.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Light Crawler

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for South America Gold Rush fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    A first-person dungeon crawler where you explore a procedurally generated dark world with dungeons. You only have your lantern for light. Don't let it run out as you explore the world and dungeons.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below South America Gold Rush at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    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 ~50% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    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. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Action with South America Gold Rush.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    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 ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Indie with South America Gold Rush.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    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 ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with South America Gold Rush.

    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 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under South America Gold Rush on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 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 South America Gold Rush.

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with South America Gold Rush.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with South America Gold Rush.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 ↗
  7. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with South America Gold Rush.

    『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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about South America Gold Rush

How much does South America Gold Rush cost?
South America Gold Rush is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to South America Gold Rush?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside South America Gold Rush are Be Hero, Eden Island, Russian Village Simulator.
Who developed South America Gold Rush?
South America Gold Rush was developed by Argo 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 South America Gold Rush.

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