Games like Phantom of the Grove
If Phantom of the Grove is your kind of game, the closest matches are Oblivions Garden, FerroFrame 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.
FerroFrame
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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.
FerroFrame is a real-time strategy ecology simulator — dig, dam, redirect and blast industry into high gear, then survive the world as the balance tilts in either direction. Use gigantic mechs called frames to terraform the planet to your needs and replenish your world with asteroids!
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.
Kingdom III: Rising Realms
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Ranked #4 for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom of the Grove.
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Stone to Stars
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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.
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Hellcrown
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Ranked #6 for Phantom of the Grove fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phantom of the Grove.
You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.
Imagine Earth
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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.
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.
Corsair Cove
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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.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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, FerroFrame, 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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