Games like The Gardener
If The Gardener is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chomp Garden, E9uations and The Court Of Wanderers — 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 The Gardener: Solve tile based lawn puzzles. Explore the grounds of a forgotten manor. Discover mysterious flora and figure out their rules. Cut grass and have fun!
Players who liked The Gardener also play
Steam players who put hours into The Gardener 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.
Chomp Garden
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Top pick for The Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
A puzzle game about guiding plants with light. Venture into a garden full of strange plants, solve puzzles, and find your pup.
The Court Of Wanderers
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener.
Enter a world where you never know what you will find behind the next door. Wander, think, solve, and be amazed as the impossible becomes possible.
Shrink Rooms
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Ranked #4 for The Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
Run! The walls are shrinking! This is about solving puzzles by pushing boxes from collapsing secret room. Accurately plan your steps, avoid deep pits and traps, use polymer and portal wall in the room, and escape from the secret room to avoid being crushed into a puddle of flesh by the walls.
A Directionless Cycle
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Ranked #5 for The Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
2D Sokoban game where you explore a game that's slowly degrading, while you control multiple tiles with different directions at the same time.
Snakeloop
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Ranked #6 for The Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
Snakeloop is a challenging puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
Block Buster Billy
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Ranked #7 for The Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Gardener.
An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
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Ranked #8 for The Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!
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 and Casual with The Gardener.
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 The Gardener.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardener.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardener.
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?
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 The Gardener.
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 The Gardener.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardener.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Gardener
- What games are most similar to The Gardener?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Gardener are Chomp Garden, E9uations, The Court Of Wanderers.
- Who developed The Gardener?
- The Gardener was developed by Adam C-W.
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 The Gardener.
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