Games like Lakehopper
If Lakehopper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Derail Valley, Dumi's Adventure: Across Europe and Launch Window — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and cozy. 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 Lakehopper: Take flight in a seaplane flight simulator through a rugged world where you are responsible for the care and maintenance of your plane. Deliver cargo between far-flung communities in a flooded landscape that challenges your piloting skills! Fix your plane and keep flying!
Players who liked Lakehopper also play
Steam players who put hours into Lakehopper 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.
Derail Valley
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lakehopper.
Top pick for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Dumi's Adventure: Across Europe
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
A first-person road trip simulator where you drive, repair and maintain your car, explore open roads, take on small jobs and travel across a vast open world at your own pace.
Launch Window
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Lakehopper.
Launch Window is a single player physics-based automation game where you establish supply chains across an entire solar system using orbital mechanics.
Aviassembly
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization, mission based progression, relaxing and a chill mood with Lakehopper.
Ranked #4 for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Lakehopper.
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
WaggaSim
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
Take to the skies in the ultimate paragliding and speed-flying simulator. Experience lifelike physics, design or modify your own gear, and perfect your style: soaring, thermaling, acro, freestyle, and more. With soft-body wings that move like real fabric, the sky is no longer the limit!
Deadstick - Bush Pilot Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
A career-driven bush flight simulator where judgement, skill and reading the terrain determine whether you make a profit. Take on flying jobs across unforgiving wilderness, build crucial infrastructure and earn a reputation among the island's scattered communities.
A Merchant's Promise
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, resource management, simulation and a chill mood with Lakehopper.
Ranked #7 for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
Medieval Trading & Transport with Physics-Based Items. Start as a Worthless Merchant and work your way up as you carefully handle your goods through a Medieval World!
Sailwind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lakehopper.
Ranked #8 for Lakehopper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Lakehopper
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My Summer Car
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lakehopper.
Reviewers of Lakehopper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
Mon Bazou
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle upgrades, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Lakehopper.
Reviewers of Lakehopper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Sailwind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lakehopper.
Reviewers of Lakehopper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
Sailing simulator featuring realistic sailing physics and a vast open world to explore. Embark on cargo delivery missions, customize your boat, try fishing and cooking. A relaxing day sail, or an epic ocean voyage? Your sailing adventure starts here!
Derail Valley
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lakehopper.
Reviewers of Lakehopper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Pro Flight Simulator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Lakehopper cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Lakehopper.
With stunningly realistic exterior and cockpit views, you’ll feel like a true pilot as you switch between multiple camera angles to find that perfect perspective. Fly through 40 challenging levels.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lakehopper at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lakehopper.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lakehopper.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lakehopper.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lakehopper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lakehopper.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lakehopper.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lakehopper.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lakehopper.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lakehopper.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lakehopper.
‘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 Adventure with Lakehopper.
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!
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Frequently asked about Lakehopper
- Does Lakehopper run on Steam Deck?
- Lakehopper is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Lakehopper cost?
- Lakehopper is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lakehopper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lakehopper are Derail Valley, Dumi's Adventure: Across Europe, Launch Window.
- Who developed Lakehopper?
- Lakehopper was developed by Photon 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 Lakehopper.
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