Games like The Abbess Garden
If The Abbess Garden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Strange Antiquities, Pentiment and Memories of the Pinewood Islands — 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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Players who liked The Abbess Garden also play
Steam players who put hours into The Abbess Garden 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.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Abbess Garden.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Memories of the Pinewood Islands
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
"Memories of the Pinewood Islands" is a cozy walking sim and treasure hunting game where you explore the hauntingly gorgeous Pinewood Islands in search of some missing artefacts belonging to the Good King Harold. Immerse yourself in this rich and ethereal world to solve the realm's greatest mystery,
Case Solved: The London Files
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Abbess Garden.
A cozy noir puzzle game where you must investigate the dark underbelly of London. Murders have taken place, witness statements conflict and alibis aren’t adding up. Everyone has a motive, only logic reveals the truth.
Dungeon Bodega Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Dungeon Bodega Simulator is a retro styled fantasy shop game where you can grow crops, brew potions, sell items and raise slimes as pets! Can you build up your bodega into a one stop adventuring shop while solving the mysteries of the dungeon beneath you?
Best Served Cold
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Strange Horticulture
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
The Dream Globe
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Abbess Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Idler game inside an antique dream globe, build the small home and help the mini dream world grow
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Abbess Garden at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
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 The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abbess Garden.
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 The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
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 The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abbess Garden.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Abbess Garden.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
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 The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abbess Garden.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Abbess Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abbess Garden.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Abbess Garden.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 The Abbess Garden.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Abbess Garden.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Abbess Garden.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 The Abbess Garden.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from MD Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by MD Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cave Quest
WHY THIS
Another title from MD Studio, the studio behind The Abbess Garden. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abbess Garden.
Play a thrilling Match3 game! Match gems of the same kind to destroy them and to get bonuses and power-ups.
Bato: Treasures of Tibet
WHY THIS
Another title from MD Studio, the studio behind The Abbess Garden. Shares Indie and Casual with The Abbess Garden.
Help the young master of an ancient Tibetan game hunt for amazing treasures in this thrilling Match 3 game. Play quickly, strategically, and accurately to clear the board.
Cave Quest 2
WHY THIS
Another title from MD Studio, the studio behind The Abbess Garden. Shares Casual with The Abbess Garden.
Fight back against the underworld by acquiring powerful talents and spells on your journey to save your friends in this exciting and clever Match 3 game!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Strange Antiquities
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with The Abbess Garden.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Strange Horticulture
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
The Dream Globe
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Abbess Garden.
Idler game inside an antique dream globe, build the small home and help the mini dream world grow
Frequently asked about The Abbess Garden
- Does The Abbess Garden run on Steam Deck?
- The Abbess Garden 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 The Abbess Garden cost?
- The Abbess Garden is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Abbess Garden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Abbess Garden are Strange Antiquities, Pentiment, Memories of the Pinewood Islands.
- Who developed The Abbess Garden?
- The Abbess Garden was developed by MD Studio and published by indie.io.
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 The Abbess Garden.
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