Games like Gemtide
If Gemtide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Harpooner, I Only Moved My Mouse and Land Drifters — 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 Gemtide: Explore the depths of the sea while collecting gems for adorable critters on your way down in this cozy incremental adventure.
Players who liked Gemtide also play
Steam players who put hours into Gemtide 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.
Harpooner
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Gemtide.
Harpooner is an action-driven incremental fishing game where you hunt bizarre alien fish from a meteor crash. Grab your gear, grow stronger with every dive, and take down massive bosses to save Earth's ecosystem!
I Only Moved My Mouse
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Gemtide.
Your cursor is the blade. Never click — move the mouse and the sword cuts whatever its edge sweeps through. Take your hand off it and the blade fights on without you. Hold the core, clear endless waves, take an Awakening, then spend the shards on 100 sword tiers and a forge with no last level.
Land Drifters
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Gemtide.
Land Drifters is an incremental RPG game that can be played idle or active. Explore islands, unlock new skills and combat classes, overcome obstacles, and more! The game is jam-packed with many paths of progression intertwined throughout the game!
Seabun
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Gemtide.
Seabun is an incremental 2D survivor-like with creature collection elements, where you play a scientist bunny diving deeper and deeper to find the source of the sea's corruption. Haul your loot home between dives, grow your lab, and raise the fish you rescue into rideable mounts.
PlinkIdle
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Gemtide.
PlinkIdle is a retro-inspired game with an idle/incremental spin on a classic ball drop mechanic. Falling balls, rare buffs, and steady upgrades unlock colorful, cozy stages and immersive environments.
Incrempire
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Gemtide.
Defend. Upgrade. Dominate. A relaxing incremental base-defense game, packed with powerful skills and a deep skill tree.
Prigod Idle
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Gemtide.
Build a hero and send them into battle. When you get stuck, look at what went wrong, change your gear, gems, relics, pet or tech tree and try again. Prigod Idle is an idle auto-battler with strange bosses, 22 minigames and offline progress. Buy it once, with no ads or microtransactions.
FishPond
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Gemtide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Gemtide.
Build a living pond where every fish has a unique genetic code. Breed for rare traits, balance oxygen and hunger, unlock new species, and watch your ecosystem compose its own soundtrack in real time. Part sim, part idle game, part science experiment gone beautifully wrong.
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 Gemtide.
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 Gemtide.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gemtide.
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 Gemtide.
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 Casual with Gemtide.
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 and Adventure with Gemtide.
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 Adventure with Gemtide.
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 Gemtide
- What games are most similar to Gemtide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gemtide are Harpooner, I Only Moved My Mouse, Land Drifters.
- Who developed Gemtide?
- Gemtide was developed by doremink.
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