Games like Abracademia
If Abracademia is your kind of game, the closest matches are Side Shop Simulator, Petunia's Purgatory and Desktop Legends — 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 Abracademia: Become a wizard, and a thumping good one! Abracademia is a cozy mage idle life-sim that lives on your screen and keeps you company while you work or play. Pick a coven, manage your daily routine, learn spells, make friends, embark on adventures, and pass exams on your way to graduation.
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Steam players who put hours into Abracademia 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.
Side Shop Simulator
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Top pick for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Abracademia.
A cozy idle shop-sim that can sit in the corner of your screen while you work or play. Stock products, upgrade your tools, and expand your business comfortably from your desktop!
Petunia's Purgatory
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Second-strongest match for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Abracademia.
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.
Desktop Legends
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Third-strongest match for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Abracademia.
Desktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against the forces of darkness right on your desktop!
Monster Hunting: Incremental Grind Forever
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Ranked #4 for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Abracademia.
An idle incremental adventure. Fight monsters, buy upgrades, recruit a party, craft equipment, join a faction, battle across different regions, and complete hundreds of rewards. Unlock a variety of fun features and use them to make your numbers go up!
Reptilarium
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Ranked #5 for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Abracademia.
Relax and collect hundreds of unique reptiles in this cozy idle game. Watch eggs hatch and babies grow in real-time, customize stunning terrariums, and discover rare species from geckos to chameleons.
Amphibarium
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Ranked #6 for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Abracademia.
Relax and collect hundreds of unique frogs and salamanders in this cozy idle game. Watch tadpoles undergo metamorphosis in real-time, customize lush terrariums, and discover rare species. Let your vivarium thrive in the background while you work or study. Start your collection today!
Lepidarium
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Ranked #7 for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Abracademia.
Relax and collect hundreds of unique butterflies and moths in this cozy idle game. Watch caterpillars transform from larva to chrysalis to winged beauty, customize lush greenhouses, and discover rare species from monarchs to atlas moths.
Aviarium
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Ranked #8 for Abracademia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Abracademia.
Aviarium is a relaxing sky sanctuary simulation filled with cute birds. Manage your floating aviary with click and idle mechanics, collect resources, and enjoy a pleasant experience in a colorful and peaceful world above the clouds.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Abracademia.
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.
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 Abracademia.
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 Abracademia.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abracademia.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 Abracademia.
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 Abracademia.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Abracademia.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with Abracademia.
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!
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Frequently asked about Abracademia
- What games are most similar to Abracademia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Abracademia are Side Shop Simulator, Petunia's Purgatory, Desktop Legends.
- Who developed Abracademia?
- Abracademia was developed by Seele Games.
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