Games like Dogwood
If Dogwood is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blackheart, Monster Chef and Minds Define Us — 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 Dogwood: A pup who doesn't belong discovers that feeding people is the closest thing to belonging he's ever found. Dogwood is a Cooking ARPG where the battlefield is the wilderness and the home is a restaurant you built from nothing.
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Steam players who put hours into Dogwood 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.
Blackheart
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Top pick for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogwood.
Weaving together action RPG and top-down shooter elements, Blackheart tells a tragic tale centred around the royal Blackheart family and the internal conflicts that are consuming them from the inside out.
Monster Chef
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Second-strongest match for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogwood.
FIGHT! COOK! SERVE! Play as Pranzo, a tiny chef-warrior who cooks monsters right on the battlefield. In this action RPG, explore the world of Delizia, grow your inn’s reputation, serve picky customers, and rise through the ranks of the ancient Monster Chef Order as you uncover its secrets.
Minds Define Us
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Third-strongest match for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogwood.
Fire up your camper van and hit the road! Minds Define Us is a story-driven, top-down extraction action-adventure. Scavenge supplies in robot-infested zones, safely extract, meet companions, share home-cooked campfire meals, and upgrade your gear as you uncover the truth behind the distant rumble.
The Hearth and Harbour
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Ranked #4 for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dogwood.
Transform a run-down restaurant and build a new life for yourself in this management RPG. Decide what kind of restaurant you want to create and what kind of person you want to be. As a storm brews outside, every choice you make has consequences.
Chef RPG
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Ranked #5 for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dogwood.
Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
Taste Of Heaven
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Ranked #6 for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dogwood.
Taste of heaven is a 2D cooking RPG with a pinch of roguelite ! Master the art of crafting dishes for celestial gourmets while forging bonds with a cast of unforgettable characters. Discover hidden recipes and explore a vibrant, ever-changing world brimming with charm and mystery.
Monsterest
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Ranked #7 for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogwood.
Manage a monster-friendly inn. Chop down trees to make furniture and decorate the rooms. Catch fish, hunt, and prepare meals. Befriend your guests, and they'll join you as companions. What kind of monster guest will visit today?
Spookitchen
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Ranked #8 for Dogwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dogwood.
Enjoy a unique cooking tycoon set in a cute, spooky Halloween town! Gather ingredients in the morning by foraging, fishing, and farming, then use your own recipes to satisfy ghostly customers by day. Alongside quirky monster residents, the strange and charming secrets of Spookitchen begin to unfold!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dogwood.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dogwood.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
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 Dogwood.
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 Dogwood.
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?
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 Dogwood.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dogwood.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dogwood.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dogwood
- What games are most similar to Dogwood?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dogwood are Blackheart, Monster Chef, Minds Define Us.
- Who developed Dogwood?
- Dogwood was developed by Team Soleil.
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 Dogwood.
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