Games like The Greenening
If The Greenening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lyca, Pretty Sweet! Healing Guardian and Lepidarium — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and lighthearted. 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 The Greenening: A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.
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Steam players who put hours into The Greenening 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.
Lyca
WHY THIS
Shares skill tree upgrades, skill tree progression, casual and a chill mood with The Greenening.
Top pick for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Greenening.
A small, relaxing, incremental game about restoring a barren wasteland into a lush meadow. Help the magical wolf Lyca run through the land, gather resources, and unlock a vast upgrade tree.
Pretty Sweet! Healing Guardian
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Greenening.
Fulfill your dream of becoming a magical girl! In this tiny management sim you are in charge of the citizens’ well-being in a cozy town. Balance their emotions with candy magic, manage your sugary stock, upgrade your powers and raise everybody's quality of life!
Lepidarium
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
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.
Easy Bubbles
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
Easy Bubbles is a relaxing aquarium simulation filled with cute sea creatures. Manage your aquarium with click and idle mechanics, collect resources and have a pleasant experience in the colorful and peaceful underworld.
Honey Glade
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
Meet your new hardworking neighbors at the table! Watch the bees buzz, dance, and collect pollen from the flowers while you work or relax. Plant bright flowers, upgrade the hive and enjoy the picturesque meadow in this small world on your screen.
Scritchy Scratchy
WHY THIS
Shares incremental gameplay, casual and a lighthearted mood with The Greenening.
Ranked #6 for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
Scritchy Scratchy is a super-satisfying scratch card incremental game. Buy stacks of scratch-offs, unlock auto-scratching, and chase massive jackpots. Will you play it safe or go all-in?
Fishing Inc
WHY THIS
Shares incremental progression, clicker, casual and a chill mood with The Greenening.
Ranked #7 for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
Fishing Inc is a cozy incremental fishing game! Catch fish, earn cash, and unlock powerful skills. Master new ponds, fill your Fish Log with Legendary catches, and become the ultimate angler!
Cropdeck
WHY THIS
Shares resource management, casual and a chill mood with The Greenening.
Ranked #8 for The Greenening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Greenening.
Plant, grow, and harvest in this farming roguelite deckbuilder. Craft a powerful deck of plants and combine quirky scarecrows with passive effects for wild synergies. Pay taxes. Strategic, satisfying, and delightfully wholesome.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Greenening at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Greenening.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Greenening.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Greenening.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Greenening.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Greenening.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Greenening.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Greenening on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Greenening.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
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 Greenening.
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 Greenening.
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 Greenening.
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 Greenening.
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 Greenening.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Greenening.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Greenening
- Does The Greenening run on Steam Deck?
- The Greenening 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 Greenening cost?
- The Greenening is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Greenening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Greenening are Lyca, Pretty Sweet! Healing Guardian, Lepidarium.
- Who developed The Greenening?
- The Greenening was developed by Erkberg 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 The Greenening.
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