Games like Kernel Ridge
If Kernel Ridge is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Tomorrow, The Eternal Bone : Shellshore and KYORA — 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 Kernel Ridge: Dave wanted a quiet weekend in the woods. The AI decided humanity was obsolete. Kernel Ridge is a single player survival game where you scavenge, craft, and survive against hostile machines in a stylised forest wilderness.
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Steam players who put hours into Kernel Ridge 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.
Project Tomorrow
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Top pick for Kernel Ridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A base-building survival game with terraforming and crafting. Earth lies poisoned and abandoned ten thousand years after invasion. Awaken from stasis, defend your fragile foothold, and restore a dead world so humanity can live here again.
The Eternal Bone : Shellshore
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Kernel Ridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
The Eternal Bone : Shellshore is a farm adventure game. You can build your own home, cultivating ,protect and harvest crops, dig resources. Or obtain weapon，defeat the monster, start a sci-fi farm adventure game along the Shellshore's river.
AdventureSteam ↗KYORA
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kernel Ridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
Delve into KYORA, a mystical multiplayer sandbox adventure, where every pixel is yours to shape, mine, build or explode.
Two Left Hands
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Ranked #4 for Kernel Ridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A co-op physics game about a broke handyman born with two left hands. Each player controls one clumsy left hand. Coordinate and catastrophize your way through wacky jobs to earn enough cash to literally fix yourself.
Graveyard Keeper 2
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Ranked #6 for Kernel Ridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
The most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim is back! Restore The Town, manage the graveyard, automate production, lead your undead army into battle and turn the zombie problem into a thriving business! Graveyard Keeper 2 is the grotesque sequel that's deeper than six feet, and more unhinged than ever!
Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Kernel Ridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Kernel Ridge.
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
Mega Dig
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Ranked #8 for Kernel Ridge fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
Meet the most gem-obsessed miner underground! Swing your pickaxe through monster-infested caverns, hoard shiny gems, dodge fireballs, and dig through ever-changing biomes. Fast, loud, and dangerously addictive — one more run always pays off.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kernel Ridge.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Kernel Ridge.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
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]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Kernel Ridge.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about Kernel Ridge
- What games are most similar to Kernel Ridge?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kernel Ridge are Project Tomorrow, The Eternal Bone : Shellshore, KYORA.
- Who developed Kernel Ridge?
- Kernel Ridge was developed by PogoPixel 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 Kernel Ridge.
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