Games like Desk Garden
If Desk Garden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Plantera, Plantera 2: Golden Acorn and Summoner's Cookbook — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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 Desk Garden: Relax and grow! A laid-back idle game where you nurture mysterious plants (some even human-like!), watch them flourish, then sell them to expand your magical garden. Design your own unique oasis at your own pace.
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Steam players who put hours into Desk 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.
Plantera
WHY THIS
Shares achievement hunting and a cozy mood with Desk Garden.
Top pick for Desk Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desk Garden.
Second-strongest match for Desk Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
The round blue Mellows return to tend to the Garden once more. Grow plants, bushes, trees, animals, water features and the great magical oak tree that has been rumored to have placed its seed there. Tend to the oak tree and grow it to the sky to harvest its Golden Acorns.
Summoner's Cookbook
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Desk Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
An incremental, idle, creature collector about summoning creatures and giving them tasks. Craft them using ingredients and fill out your Cookbook with your discoveries. Take on requests, build, expand and let your creatures do the hard work while you discover new recipes or do other things!
Cutout Village
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Desk Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
Cutout Village is a narrative, cozy, city-builder game in which you will have to build villages using simple and unique mechanics: cutting, folding and gluing. Restore the family home, revive your village and create spaces filled with fruit trees and histories to live!
Littlewood
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Desk Garden.
Ranked #5 for Desk Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Assembly Planter
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desk Garden.
Ranked #7 for Desk Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.
Autonauts vs Piratebots
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desk Garden.
Ranked #8 for Desk Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desk Garden at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desk Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desk 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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desk Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desk Garden.
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 ~67% under Desk Garden on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Desk Garden.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desk Garden on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Desk Garden.
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 ~67% under Desk Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desk Garden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desk Garden on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Desk Garden.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk 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?
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 Desk Garden.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
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!
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 Desk Garden.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Desk Garden.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Desk Garden.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desk Garden.
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Frequently asked about Desk Garden
- Does Desk Garden work on Steam Deck?
- Desk Garden is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Desk Garden cost?
- Desk Garden is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desk Garden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desk Garden are Plantera, Plantera 2: Golden Acorn, Summoner's Cookbook.
- Who developed Desk Garden?
- Desk Garden was developed by Siesta Studio.
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