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Games like Kabuto Park

If Kabuto Park is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mothkeep, Dark Cards of Candlewood and Lepidarium — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deck building combat system, 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.

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About Kabuto Park: Enjoy summer in Kabuto Park! Catch the cutest bugs, train them and win the Summer Beetle Battles Championship in this tiny bug collection game! Upgrade your equipment to find rarer, stronger and shinier little friends.

2025StrategyIndieSimulationRPGCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby Doot
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Bug designs are very cuteCute bug designs and art styleDeck building combat systemChillCozyLighthearted

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Steam players who put hours into Kabuto Park 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. Mothkeep

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Kabuto Park.

    Mothkeep is a singleplayer moth documenting game where you step into a peaceful nature sanctuary and discover its native moths, one journal entry at a time. ✒️🦋

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗
  2. Dark Cards of Candlewood

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kabuto Park.

    A solo collectible card game with the soul of a classic JRPG. Embark on replayable dungeon runs with deceptively deep, two-choice card combat. Draft items for your backpack, master chain attacks, and even crack a few card packs...then save the world from eternal darkness!

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  3. Lepidarium

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Relax and collect hundreds of unique butterflies and moths in this cozy idle game. Watch caterpillars transform from larva to chrysalis to winged beauty, customize lush greenhouses, and discover rare species from monarchs to atlas moths.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  4. Tiny Slime Farm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    A cozy desktop idle game where cute slimes bounce around your tiny farm while you work or study.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Lured In

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Run your own cozy aquarium! Travel to different places to catch all types of fish. Bring them back for idle profits, or sell them for instant cash. Unlock research for new upgrades, and ascend for powerful bonuses. Customize your character and tanks, and make your aquarium your own!

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  6. Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kabuto Park.

    Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Tiny Bookshop

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Kabuto Park.

    Ranked #7 for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Ooblets

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Kabuto Park.

    Ranked #8 for Kabuto Park fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kabuto Park at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kabuto Park.

    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 ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Kabuto Park.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kabuto Park.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Kabuto Park.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kabuto Park.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kabuto Park.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Kabuto Park on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Kabuto Park.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kabuto Park.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Kabuto Park.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Kabuto Park.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Doot

Other recommendable Steam games by Doot, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Minami Lane

    WHY THIS

    Shares achievement hunting, casual and a chill mood with Kabuto Park.

    Another title from Doot, the studio behind Kabuto Park. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kabuto Park.

    Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Froggy's Battle

    WHY THIS

    Shares replayability, achievement hunting, retro and a nostalgic mood with Kabuto Park.

    Another title from Doot, the studio behind Kabuto Park. Shares Indie and Casual with Kabuto Park.

    Froggy's Battle is an action roguelike game set in a loop. Help Froggy the steezy magician skater frog defeat all the baddies squatting her favorite riding spot. Choose your upgrades carefully, become more and more powerful and kickflip yourself through waves of enemies and ferocious bosses!

    2023ActionIndieCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milki Delivery

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Doot, the studio behind Kabuto Park. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Rebuild a community one bottle at a time in this tiny delivery adventure with your pet cow Milki. Gather resources and upgrade your barn, then bike along dirt paths, breezy meadows, and seaside cliffs to bring fresh milk back to the sleepy countryside.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kabuto Park.

    Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Tiny Bookshop

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Kabuto Park.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Ooblets

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Kabuto Park.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kabuto Park.

    Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Kabuto Park

Does Kabuto Park run on Steam Deck?
Kabuto Park is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Kabuto Park cost?
Kabuto Park is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Kabuto Park?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kabuto Park are Mothkeep, Dark Cards of Candlewood, Lepidarium.
Who developed Kabuto Park?
Kabuto Park was developed by Doot and published by Doot Tiny 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 Kabuto Park.

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