Games like Heartwake
If Heartwake is your kind of game, the closest matches are KYORA, Huglings and Autonomica — 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 Heartwake: A cozy single-player crafting adventure where every repair brightens the island and every friendship weakens the gloom. Explore a storm-battered coast, befriend the locals, rebuild what was lost, and find the way to stop The Tornado.
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Steam players who put hours into Heartwake 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.
Huglings
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heartwake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Heartwake.
Huglings is a cozy adventure for 1-4 players where you can help the huglings restore their village, which was damaged by the goblins. Create peace as you farm, craft, and decorate your dream home. No pressure, just a peaceful world to explore and a heartwarming journey of friendship and helpfulness!
Autonomica
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heartwake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Heartwake.
A survival automation game set in an alternate 1980s. Build supply chains where farming fuels chemistry and mining drives manufacturing. Rebuild a world fractured by failed time experiments - solo or co-op. Launch time-jump extractions into unstable futures for tech that shouldn't exist yet.
Mystical Demon Farm
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heartwake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Heartwake.
Mystical Demon Farm is a cute, cozy, but lively farm game that blends farming simulation, monster collecting, and dungeon crawling. Collect Demons, grow your operation, and build an amazing farm worthy of the Queen’s recognition!
Terra Taker
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heartwake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Heartwake.
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Seaward
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heartwake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Heartwake.
Seaward is a cozy exploration game where you build a ship to discover a flooded world. Find resources and power your ship with renewable energies. Meet unique characters and help them out to build a wholesome community. Make the journey your own by taking photos and filling up your journal.
Breezevale
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heartwake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Heartwake.
Start a new life on a forgotten farm. Meet fantastical residents—elf, beastkin, demon, mermaid, ghost, and more! Restore the farm, find love, raise magical creatures, explore dungeons, and uncover the mystery behind the withering World Tree.
Windpunk
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heartwake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Heartwake.
A cozy survival craft adventure. Build a walking fortress to survive the winds of a fallen world. ♻️ Recycle ⛏️ Refine, 🔧 Rebuild, and ⛺ survive the shifting biomes. Ride the wind, heal the land, and recruit quirky survivors to help rebuild the future. (Previosly known as Wasteland Waste Disposal)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Heartwake.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Heartwake.
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!
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Heartwake.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Heartwake.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Heartwake.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Heartwake.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Heartwake
- What games are most similar to Heartwake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heartwake are KYORA, Huglings, Autonomica.
- Who developed Heartwake?
- Heartwake was developed by Knit Pixel.
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 Heartwake.
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