Games like Fred's Idle Garden
If Fred's Idle Garden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tiny Farmie, Quackyard and Sprout's Meadow — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Fred's Idle 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.
Tiny Farmie
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Top pick for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
An ultra-tiny idle farming simulation you can place anywhere on your desktop. Start your cozy farming life anytime.
Quackyard
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Second-strongest match for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
A cozy incremental farming sim about helping your duck friend clean out their backyard. Dig, mine and farm your way to clearing up the space so that a tea party with friends can be hosted.
Sprout's Meadow
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Third-strongest match for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Manage a team of adorable Sproutlings in this cozy farming adventure! Assign tasks, automate chores, and turn forgotten land into a lively home. Grow crops, raise animals, and craft goods, then take to the skies in your hot air balloon to trade. Watch your little farm come alive!
Corner Market
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Ranked #4 for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A relaxing idle market simulator that sits at the corner of your screen while you do other things.
HarvestCo.
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Ranked #5 for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
HarvestCo is a farming incremental idle game where a small field turns into an increasingly efficient money-making machine. Harvest crops, buy upgrades, grow passive income, automate production, and discover rare golden crops and strange field events.
Petunia's Purgatory
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Ranked #6 for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your desktop.
Happy Roots
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Ranked #7 for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Grow a farm you actually work. Sow by hand or by seed drill, harvest with a sickle or a combine, raise chickens, cows and sheep, run mills and bakeries, set your own prices at the roadside stand, and grow one bare plot into a whole farm village.
Mana Roots
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Ranked #8 for Fred's Idle Garden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An idle-farming game where you use magic to handle the work. Plant, expand and automate with the help of animals. All from the bottom of your screen
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
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.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle 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.
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More from Pretty Fly Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Pretty Fly Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Snake vs Snake
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Another title from Pretty Fly Games, the studio behind Fred's Idle Garden.
Snake vs Snake is a fast paced snake game with an insane battle mode with power-ups and much more. Inspired by old classical Snake but with a much faster arcade pace and local multiplayer support.
Total Arcade Racing
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Another title from Pretty Fly Games, the studio behind Fred's Idle Garden. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Total Arcade Racing is a fun 2D top-down arcade racing game where you zip around closed circuits. Play solo or with up to 8 friends on the same screen in various game modes. This game is a tribute to old school arcade racing games like Super Sprint, Slicks 'n' Slide and Super Cars.
Super Jumpy Ball
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Another title from Pretty Fly Games, the studio behind Fred's Idle Garden.
A simple & fun 2D platform game for 1-8 players, inspired by retro platformers. Faced with clever level design and challenging obstacles, players must find their way through each level while bouncing, wall jumping, avoiding spikes and spike balls.
Pixel Driver
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Another title from Pretty Fly Games, the studio behind Fred's Idle Garden.
🚗 Fast paced infinite driving in heavy traffic 🚙
Traffic Race 3D 2
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Another title from Pretty Fly Games, the studio behind Fred's Idle Garden. Shares Simulation with Fred's Idle Garden.
Traffic Race 3D 2 is a tribute to retro racing, race solo or split screen with a friend. Prove that you are an awesome driver by reaching the 1st place on the online leaderboards 🏆
Frequently asked about Fred's Idle Garden
- What games are most similar to Fred's Idle Garden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fred's Idle Garden are Tiny Farmie, Quackyard, Sprout's Meadow.
- Who developed Fred's Idle Garden?
- Fred's Idle Garden was developed by Pretty Fly Games.
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 Fred's Idle Garden.
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