Games like Phantom of the Grove
If Phantom of the Grove is your kind of game, the closest matches are Oblivions Garden, Diseased and Coralland — 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 Phantom of the Grove: A fungal fairycore colony sim where you are the vengeful spirit of an ancient forest. Possess and gaslight invaders into fighting each other, reclaim their bodies as fuel for the Grove, and guide your Seely mushroom children to build and expand. The Grove is done being nice.
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Steam players who put hours into Phantom of the Grove 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.
Oblivions Garden
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Top pick for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
Claim a hex anywhere on a 1:1 reconstruction of real Earth and build a city that never stops growing. Real satellite terrain, real building outlines, a hierarchical economy from one parcel to a continent — and an AI that grows the world while you sleep.
Diseased
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Second-strongest match for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Phantom of the Grove.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Coralland
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Third-strongest match for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
Coraland is a unique simulation and strategy game where you take on the role of a marine biologist tasked with restoring and protecting a fragile coral reef. Every coral you place, every fish that spawns, and every structure you build affects the ecosystem, for better or worse.
Copacetic
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Ranked #4 for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Imagine Earth
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Ranked #5 for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Here Comes The Swarm
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Ranked #6 for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
Ascent of Ashes
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Ranked #7 for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Whiskerwood
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Ranked #8 for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
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?
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
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.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Phantom of the Grove.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Phantom of the Grove
- Does Phantom of the Grove have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Phantom of the Grove supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Phantom of the Grove?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Phantom of the Grove are Oblivions Garden, Diseased, Coralland.
- Who developed Phantom of the Grove?
- Phantom of the Grove was developed by Survansix.
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 Phantom of the Grove.
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