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Games like Layer Land

If Layer Land is your kind of game, the closest matches are FluxWerks, Skyclimbers and Shamania — 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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About Layer Land: Layerland is a sandbox survival game set in a world that mirrors Earth’s terrain. Travel through gates, capture monsters as pets, and team up to battle, gather, craft, and build.

2026ActionStrategyIndieAdventureRPGEarly Access29.99 USDWindowsby PUDDING Co. Ltd.
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Players who liked Layer Land also play

Steam players who put hours into Layer Land 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.

  1. FluxWerks

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Layer Land.

    Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Skyclimbers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Layer Land.

    Build your kingdom, choose your class, and tame monsters in this Multiplayer City-Building RPG that takes place in a procedurally generated anime-themed universe.

    2026ActionStrategyAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Shamania

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Layer Land.

    Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!

    2026ActionAdventureRPG11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Enshrouded

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure23.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Ars Notoria

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Layer Land.

    Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Layer Land.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Prospector

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Layer Land.

    Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Blossom: The Seed of Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Layer Land fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Layer Land.

    Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

    2026IndieAdventure13.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Layer Land at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Layer Land.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Layer Land.

    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?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Action with Layer Land.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Layer Land.

    The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Layer Land on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Layer Land.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Layer Land.

    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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hello Neighbor Alpha 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Layer Land.

    Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.

    2019StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Satisfactory

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Layer Land.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Prospector

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Layer Land.

    Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Blossom: The Seed of Life

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Layer Land.

    Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.

    2026IndieAdventure13.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Layer Land

How much does Layer Land cost?
Layer Land is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Layer Land?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Layer Land are FluxWerks, Skyclimbers, Shamania.
Who developed Layer Land?
Layer Land was developed by PUDDING Co. Ltd..

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 Layer Land.

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