Games like Rich River
If Rich River is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crystal Ascend, Sporbs and Artillery Miner — 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 Rich River: Pan for gold, unearth buried gems, and build a frontier town from the ground up. Explore, trade, upgrade your tools, and transformyour life. A cozy clicker where every swing of the pickaxe funds your dream.
Players who liked Rich River also play
Steam players who put hours into Rich River 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.
Crystal Ascend
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Top pick for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Rich River.
A simple incremental game where you nurture crystal elementals by destroying floating crystals and harvesting aether. Upgrade the skill tree, unlock new abilities to gather resources faster, and build your ultimate crystal companions.
Sporbs
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
A relaxing incremental game where you harvest resources from alien organisms. Upgrade your extraction technology, discover unique abilities, manage resources, automate a factory and unlock new areas to maximise your yield.
Artillery Miner
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
An incremental mining game, where you mine through massive blocks using guns, fire, lasers and nuclear missiles. Discover new ores, unlock new worlds and weapons as you progress through the upgrades tree and become the ultimate Artillery Miner!
Monger Drop
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Ranked #4 for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Rich River.
Throw dwarves, unleash rats, and toss bombs as you dig ever deeper in this chaotic incremental mining adventure.
Spin Power
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Ranked #5 for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Rich River.
A short incremental building game where everything functions with your Spin Power. Build structures, mine resources, unlock new lands, upgrade yourself inside the big skill tree, automate resource mining to increase your income and awake the mysterious water tank from eternal slumber!
Mining and Dwarves
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Ranked #6 for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Rich River.
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
A Game About Getting Bigger
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Ranked #7 for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
A Game About Getting Bigger is a loot-driven incremental game about feeding a growing black hole. Destroy celestial bodies to make the black hole at the center grow larger and larger.
Drillbound
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Ranked #8 for Rich River fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
Drillbound is a short incremental game about mining your way to the planet’s core. Crush layers of rock, gather resources, upgrade your drill, and unlock powerful machines as you descend into the depths.
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 Rich River.
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 Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rich River.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Rich River.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Rich River.
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 Indie and Simulation with Rich River.
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.
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Frequently asked about Rich River
- What games are most similar to Rich River?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rich River are Crystal Ascend, Sporbs, Artillery Miner.
- Who developed Rich River?
- Rich River was developed by Garry Gatling and published by Garry Gatling Games.
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