Games like CRUFT
If CRUFT is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dough it Yourself, Sunshine Farm and Plantera 2: Golden Acorn — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cheevos push creative efficiency, chill and cozy. 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 CRUFT: A cozy crafter with tons of things to create, sell, or just have fun making. Every recipe always makes a bit of CRUFT too, so you should probably clean up after yourself!
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Steam players who put hours into CRUFT 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.
Dough it Yourself
WHY THIS
Top pick for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
Create your own cozy farm and bakery, where you grow crops, care for animals, craft ingredients, and bake delicious goods entirely from your own production.
Sunshine Farm
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
Sunshine Farm is a farming simulator with shop management. Grow your farm, explore a vast world, expand the fair, and run a successful store.
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with CRUFT.
Third-strongest match for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
The round blue Mellows return to tend to the Garden once more. Grow plants, bushes, trees, animals, water features and the great magical oak tree that has been rumored to have placed its seed there. Tend to the oak tree and grow it to the sky to harvest its Golden Acorns.
Hayfield: Co-op Farm & Shop
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Ranked #4 for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with CRUFT.
A cozy farming sim where your farm keeps running while you're offline. Grow crops, breed animals, run a shop. Visit any player's farm anytime, or co-op your own with friends. Come back to a farm that's been busy without you.
SimulationSteam ↗Sproutmart – Grocery Store Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
Run your own grocery store. Stock shelves, scan items at the checkout, and keep the store moving — solo or with friends. Farm, process, and fish for goods to expand what you can sell.
Farm Manager 2021
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression and a chill mood with CRUFT.
Ranked #6 for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with CRUFT.
Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.
TerraForge
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, roguelite progression, casual and a chill mood with CRUFT.
Ranked #7 for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
TerraForge is a mining simulation game mixed with a bit of shop management. You dig for ores, craft items, research new blueprints, improve your shop, sell your items and slowly grow your own little mining town.
Cute Farmer Life
WHY THIS
Shares resource gathering, cozy and a chill mood with CRUFT.
Ranked #8 for CRUFT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
Cute Farmer Life is a small indie farm game. Grow, craft and collect resources in a game designed to relax and enjoy the moment. Discover the secrets of the small town you have moved to.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CRUFT at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
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 ~50% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CRUFT.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with CRUFT.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CRUFT.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CRUFT.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with CRUFT.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CRUFT on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CRUFT.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 CRUFT.
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 Simulation with CRUFT.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRUFT.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CRUFT.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
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 CRUFT.
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 Strategy and Indie with CRUFT.
🏮🐈 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? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
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Frequently asked about CRUFT
- How much does CRUFT cost?
- CRUFT is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CRUFT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CRUFT are Dough it Yourself, Sunshine Farm, Plantera 2: Golden Acorn.
- Who developed CRUFT?
- CRUFT was developed by Go On Entertainment.
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