Games like The Home County
If The Home County is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mattami Restaurant & Cafe Tycoon, Life of an NPC and Cog Foo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building community relationships, charming edwardian village aesthetic and crystal garden collection system. 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 The Home County: Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?
Players who liked The Home County also play
Steam players who put hours into The Home County 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.
Mattami Restaurant & Cafe Tycoon
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Home County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with The Home County.
♪ Mattami is a restaurant tycoon game where you start with a tiny humble place and work your way up. Manage your staff, their schedule and inventory to efficiently grow your restaurant as elegant as possible.
Life of an NPC
WHY THIS
Shares indie and a whimsical mood with The Home County.
Second-strongest match for The Home County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
An AI-directed town where anything can happen. Let your NPCs thrive, or turn them against each other. Each character has their own goals and desires and responds to events in real time.
Cog Foo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Home County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Home County.
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Cozy Garden
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Home County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Home County.
A relaxing farming sim where you manage adorable creatures that grow crops, gather resources, and build your cozy garden right at the bottom of your screen.
Mistpaw Ravine
WHY THIS
Shares building, base building, atmospheric and a peaceful mood with The Home County.
Ranked #5 for The Home County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Home County.
The witches are gone. Only their cats remain. Make a new home for them in this feline city-builder. Keep your cats fed and happy, clean their litter box, and give them a cozy life in a world ravaged by magic.
Primal Survival Wars
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Home County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
Build your own Settlement of Ancient People. Survive, Hunt, Gather, Craft Tools, Fight, Research new technologies and face the challenges that the environment throws at you.
Automated Ranch Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Home County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
Design interconnected systems to handle daily operations with minimal manual effort. Raise chickens, sheep, and cows, process eggs, wool, and milk, and turn raw products into profitable goods. Expand your facilities and fulfill growing orders from the nearby town to build a thriving ranch empire.
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Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a peaceful mood with The Home County.
Reviewers of The Home County cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Echoes of the Plum Grove
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with The Home County.
Reviewers of The Home County cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.
Fields of Mistria
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Home County.
Reviewers of The Home County cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
Grimshire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Home County cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Home County at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Home County.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with The Home County.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Home County.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Home County.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Home County.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Home County on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 The Home County.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
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 The Home County.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Home County.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Home County.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Home County.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Home County.
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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Home County.
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 The Home County
- Does The Home County run on Steam Deck?
- The Home County is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Home County cost?
- The Home County is listed on Steam at 11.89 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Home County?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Home County are Mattami Restaurant & Cafe Tycoon, Life of an NPC, Cog Foo.
- Who developed The Home County?
- The Home County was developed by Swanworth.
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 The Home County.
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