Games like Under the Elm
If Under the Elm is your kind of game, the closest matches are Readerpet, 窗台世界（Sill World） and Moss & Destiny — 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 Under the Elm: Inherit your grandmother's cabin and the woods she loved. Forage real mushrooms and botanicals, brew the recipes she perfected, fill the field guide she left unfinished, and tend to the villagers she took care of for 40 years. A cozy game about coming home.
Players who liked Under the Elm also play
Steam players who put hours into Under the Elm 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.
Readerpet
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Top pick for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Under the Elm.
Grimalkin is a small pixel cat who believes you should be reading. Log your books, grow a garden where every plant is a story you finished, and let him keep you company — in the game, or docked at the bottom of your screen while you work. Free, cozy, and quietly judgmental.
窗台世界（Sill World）
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Under the Elm.
A desktop wallpaper game engine packed with content—cats, flowers, fish, decorating, and a pressed-flower workshop. Over 1,000 collectibles, and almost everything is customizable. Your wallpaper, your rules!
Moss & Destiny
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under the Elm.
Your forest has a story it needs to finish... and it is calling you to tell it. A 2D pixel art cozy adventure! • Grow herbs for tea and healing • Cure the strange ailments you find in your forest creatures • Solve the mystery of what is changing the forest around you.
Mattami Restaurant & Cafe Tycoon
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Ranked #4 for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Under the Elm.
♪ Mattami is a restaurant tycoon game where you start with a tiny humble place and work your way up. Manage your staff, their schedule and inventory to efficiently grow your restaurant as elegant as possible.
The Grotto Index
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Ranked #5 for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under the Elm.
A cozy nonogram (picross) adventure. Descend a living dungeon and fill a naturalist's journal one picture-logic puzzle at a time. 100 hand-crafted specimens across 10 floors. No fail states, no guessing: every puzzle is solvable by pure logic. Just you, a lantern, and quiet discovery.
Robots Haven
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Ranked #6 for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Under the Elm.
Robots Haven is a cozy job simulator about repairing robots and exploring a forgotten world. Explore a lush abandoned environment, repair adorable robots, craft and upgrade your tools and discover the joy of a simple, satisfying daily routine.
The Regreening
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Ranked #7 for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Under the Elm.
The Regreening is a cozy simulation game about restoring nature in a soilpunk fairytale. Grow plants to create living ecosystems, become friends with ancient spirits, make your own upcycling hub, and hug ALL the animals! Can you transform this deserted world into a joyful home again?
Doloc Town
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Ranked #8 for Under the Elm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under the Elm.
Doloc Town is a cozy pixel-art farming simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Build your dream farm from scratch and explore this mysterious wasteland. Harvest, plant, build, and uncover the untold stories of this forgotten land.
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 Under the Elm.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Under the Elm.
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 Under the Elm.
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 and Simulation with Under the Elm.
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 and Adventure with Under the Elm.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Under the Elm.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under the Elm.
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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Frequently asked about Under the Elm
- What games are most similar to Under the Elm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Under the Elm are Readerpet, 窗台世界（Sill World）, Moss & Destiny.
- Who developed Under the Elm?
- Under the Elm was developed by Crooked Stone Studios.
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 Under the Elm.
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