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Games like Growing My Manhole

If Growing My Manhole is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sludgineers, Smashing Bottles and Build a Cat Tower to reach the Fish — 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 Growing My Manhole: Consume the universe, grow from Manhole to Black Hole in this insatiable incremental game.

2026IndieCasualWindowsby SylverDev, Gearbyte Games
Growing My Manhole — Steam game cover

Players who liked Growing My Manhole also play

Steam players who put hours into Growing My Manhole 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. Sludgineers

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.

    2026SimulationCasual5.59 USDSteam ↗
  2. Smashing Bottles

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    Smashing Bottles is a short and satisfying incremental game where you break bottles to earn money, upgrade your bat, discover new bottles, and cause chaos! Will you smash enough bottles to buy the universe?

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation4.24 USDSteam ↗
  3. Build a Cat Tower to reach the Fish

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    A short incremental game about building a Cat Tower to reach the Fish. Unlock new cats, each with their own color and special ability. Stack them higher and faster for even tastier fish.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗
  4. Everybody Loves a Good Hole

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    Everybody Loves a Good Hole is a short, satisfying incremental about steering a black hole and swallowing everything in sight. Devour colorful cubes for XP and coins, grow bigger, and pour it all into a deep upgrade tree. Bigger cubes, wilder chaos, just one more run.

    2026CasualSteam ↗
  5. Planet No More

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    An arcade-incremental game where you DESTROY planets! Build a fleet, upgrade weapons, max out your skill tree and destroy your target slowly. You'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  6. VOID CLICKER: Infinite Prestige

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    Void Clicker: Infinite Prestige is a cosmic idle clicker. Click the Black Hole, use Taskbar Mode, trade hundreds of Steam items, collect pets, meet random NPCs, master endless Prestige and create your ultimate build.

    IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Essence Harvest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    A unique combination of a classical incremental game with a more action based bullet-heaven game. Featuring a huge upgrade tree with around 200 permanent upgrades, plus relics, boons and more. Wishlist now and see how strong you can get.

    2026ActionCasualSteam ↗
  8. CQ: Calling Any Station

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Growing My Manhole fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    An idle/incremental game about a lone radio operator keying into a silent universe. Click or walk away, both work just as well. Build your station, log distant contacts, retune to grow stronger, and slowly decode what answers back.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual5.09 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Growing My Manhole.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Growing My Manhole.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Growing My Manhole.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Growing My Manhole.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Growing My Manhole.

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Growing My Manhole.

    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 ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Growing My Manhole.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Growing My Manhole

What games are most similar to Growing My Manhole?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Growing My Manhole are Sludgineers, Smashing Bottles, Build a Cat Tower to reach the Fish.
Who developed Growing My Manhole?
Growing My Manhole was developed by SylverDev, Gearbyte Games and published by Gearbyte 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 Growing My Manhole.

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