Games like Degrowth
If Degrowth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Retro Meadow, Progress98 and CityZen — 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 Degrowth: Unbuild various cities in order to convince citizens of the benefits of cloud based living! Perform demolition using our simple one-click interface, but be careful not to delete the homes of citizens who are still employed! Your work is complete when everyone's brain is uploaded to the cloud!
Players who liked Degrowth also play
Steam players who put hours into Degrowth 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.
Retro Meadow
WHY THIS
Top pick for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
A pixel-art sandbox where you design infinite maps. Build your perfect world with retro designs. No simulation, no action - just cozy construction. What unique worlds will you create with cute pixels? Turn your visions into peaceful creations.
Progress98
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
A retro incremental idle desktop companion all about making progress on the side and at your own pace.
CityZen
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
CityZen is a game about building small cities without stressful mechanics like confusing traffic systems, unexpected disasters or constraining resource management.
Defrag Incremental
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
A retro incremental where you optimize messy disks, choose the right algorithm, manage heat and wear, make a living from each job, and reboot for permanent BIOS upgrades.
爪爪改造家 PawRebuild
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
Five animal friends turn messy ruins into a cozy haven by matching identical items. It features 10 scenes with 5 renovation stages for each, adopts a distinctive cardboard art style, has no time limits or penalty mechanics, and allows you to unlock all achievements effortlessly.
Dwarf Eats Mountain
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
The Van Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Degrowth.
The Van Game is a retro styled epic road-trip around the USA. Manage your crew, maintain your van, and discover over a dozen national parks.
WorldShaper Idle
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Degrowth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
Relax and build your own world! Discover new tiles by experimenting with tile placement. Use their bonuses to optimize your production, or just sit back and become ever more powerful! What will your worlds look like?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
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?
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 Casual with Degrowth.
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 Degrowth.
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.
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 Degrowth.
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.
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 Degrowth.
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!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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More from Cryptomnesic
Other recommendable Steam games by Cryptomnesic, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Stella Pastoris
WHY THIS
Another title from Cryptomnesic, the studio behind Degrowth. Shares Indie with Degrowth.
Shepherd the last remnants of the Malthusian monks marooned on Proxima Centauri B. As a mechanical saint, will you delve into forbidden means to save your people or allow them to go quietly into the night? Set up production chains to spend limited resources to save as many as you can.
Xenocide
WHY THIS
Another title from Cryptomnesic, the studio behind Degrowth.
Preserve the hierarchy of humanity's distant mechanical children by cleansing the galaxy in this transhumanist turn-based tactical tale. Capture factories from unworthy machines and claim the holy words to access the tomb of the Man the All-Maker.
Frequently asked about Degrowth
- What games are most similar to Degrowth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Degrowth are Retro Meadow, Progress98, CityZen.
- Who developed Degrowth?
- Degrowth was developed by Cryptomnesic.
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 Degrowth.
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