Games like Grind Up
If Grind Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are IDLE_DIRECTIVE, One More Shake and IncreTop — 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 Grind Up: A retro first-person game where everything turns into cash. Grind items, earn money, pay your debt, make upgrades, and don't stop until you've made a million dollars.
Players who liked Grind Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Grind Up 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.
IDLE_DIRECTIVE
WHY THIS
Top pick for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.
One More Shake
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
Shake a vending machine, collect cans, earn money, and build the ultimate idle vending empire through satisfying upgrades, automation, and endless progression.
IncreTop
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Grind Up.
IncreTop is an incremental game about whipping spinning tops. You are trapped in a series of mysterious worlds filled with nothing but tops. Keep whipping tops, earning money, upgrading, unlock and buy powerful items. Destroy world after world in search of a way out.
CasualSteam ↗Restock Master
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
The doors are locked, the parking lot is empty, and the aisles are in complete disarray. Restock Master is a first person supermarket organization game. Pick up scattered groceries, sort them out, and fill every empty shelf. No clocks, no customers, no stress.
White Hound
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Grind Up.
Run WHITE HOUND from a living guild office in the Free City of Azalea. Hire heroes, choose quests from the board, watch parties march a miniature quest map, pay salaries, fight Guild Wars, and chase fame in the Gazette... without leaving your desk of course!!!
Progress98
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
A satisfying incremental idle game that drops the pretense to give you pure unadulterated progress. Boost, earn bonuses and buy upgrades to speed up your progress or take it easy and let it make progress by itself while you make progress elsewhere. No stress, only progress!
Tidy Up Together
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
Catastrophe! An evil wizard has cast a tornado spell on your shop, and now all your products are on the floor. Maybe you'll ask some friends for help to tidy up?
Bladesong
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Grind Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
The ultimate swordmaking game. Forge unique weapons with freeform blade shaping and modular hilts, perfectly balanced to your customers’ needs. Master the art of smithing and uncover the secrets of Eren Keep, a last haven of a dying world – or so they say.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grind Up at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Grind Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grind Up.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Grind Up on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Grind Up.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Grind Up on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Grind Up.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Grind Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Grind Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Grind Up on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Grind Up.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Grind Up on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Grind Up.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
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 Grind Up.
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.
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 Grind Up.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grind Up.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Grind Up.
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 Grind Up.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Iron Forge Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Castle Guardian
WHY THIS
Another title from Iron Forge Games, the studio behind Grind Up. Shares Indie and Casual with Grind Up.
Legendary action with tower defense warfare! Become a castle guard in fantastic medieval era! Destroy the enemies with your wingman Centaur. Defend your castle!
Neon Bullet
WHY THIS
Another title from Iron Forge Games, the studio behind Grind Up. Shares Indie and Casual with Grind Up.
A minimal top-down shooter tower defense experience. Survive endless waves in pure cube chaos, and grow stronger through run-based, build-focused progression against escalating difficulty and bosses.
Frequently asked about Grind Up
- How much does Grind Up cost?
- Grind Up is listed on Steam at 2.09 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Grind Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grind Up are IDLE_DIRECTIVE, One More Shake, IncreTop.
- Who developed Grind Up?
- Grind Up was developed by Iron Forge 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 Grind Up.
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