Games like GNOM
If GNOM is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Legend of Celia, Aspect and Encave — 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 GNOM: You will have to explore the Unruly Caves. Survive by mining resources and building up your base. Improve your hero's abilities by finding lost schemes and other secrets. Complete quests. Defeat enemies, find ore deposits and prove that even one dwarf can do a lot!
Players who liked GNOM also play
Steam players who put hours into GNOM 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.
The Legend of Celia
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Top pick for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
A fantasy real-time turn-based dungeon RPG. Play as the Arcane Knight, lead 5 heroes with front/back row tactics & magitech. Explore procedural dungeons, collect billions of gear & rune attributes, make choices at Obelisk Stones, rebuild a lost civilization. Native KB&M, remastered for PC.
Aspect
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Aspect is a retro-inspired roguelite dungeon crawler, where enemies drop Aspects - fragments of their power, that you can use against them. With a variety of enemies to face, weapons to find, and procedurally generated levels, no two playthroughs are the same. Will you collect all of the Aspects?
Encave
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Third-strongest match for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with GNOM.
Build customizable killrooms, scavenge, craft, upgrade and fight off waves of bioengineered monsters, that smash through walls, break your defenses, and carve new paths toward you in this hybrid FPS, tower defense and base builder set in a fully destructible underground biotech facility!
Colony 37
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Ranked #4 for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Dig deep down the abandoned planet to find its secrets and earn cash by collecting resources. Spend your money on buying various trinkets and instruments that will help you along the way to earn even more profit.
Slendrina Remake
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Ranked #5 for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Slendrina Remake is a scary survival game set in a dungeon where you must gather items, solve puzzles, and evade the sinister Slendrina herself to make it out alive. Experience the atmosphere of fear and tension in this gripping horror adventure.
Gateworlds
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Ranked #6 for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Darkness Maze Cube - Hardcore Puzzle Game
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Ranked #7 for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Darkness Maze Cube - A new perspective for traditional maze games. In a mood of suspense and apprehension prepare for many surprises in increasingly difficult mazes, where death is just around the corner, all in Brutal HardCore style without tutorials and tips.
Fosoria
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Ranked #8 for GNOM fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with GNOM.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with GNOM.
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.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with GNOM.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with GNOM.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about GNOM
- What games are most similar to GNOM?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside GNOM are The Legend of Celia, Aspect, Encave.
- Who developed GNOM?
- GNOM was developed by Eskov Aleksey.
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 GNOM.
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