Games like By My Side
If By My Side is your kind of game, the closest matches are Island Beekeeper, Witchspire and Windpunk — 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 By My Side: Survive the wild with a loyal dog at your side. Wash up with nothing, tame a stray and raise it as your companion — build and power a home, outlast brutal winters, and face a world that fights back.
Players who liked By My Side also play
Steam players who put hours into By My Side 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.
Island Beekeeper
WHY THIS
Top pick for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
Witchspire
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with By My Side.
Step into the ultimate open-world witch adventure. Befriend and battle creatures, and conjure up a sanctuary alongside other witches in co-op or single-player.
Windpunk
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
A cozy survival craft adventure. Build a walking fortress to survive the winds of a fallen world. ♻️ Recycle ⛏️ Refine, 🔧 Rebuild, and ⛺ survive the shifting biomes. Ride the wind, heal the land, and recruit quirky survivors to help rebuild the future. (Previosly known as Wasteland Waste Disposal)
Solarpunk™
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Shorekeeper
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
You washed ashore on a mysterious island. Now what? Build a shelter, find food, and explore the unknown. Or just sit by the campfire and watch the sunset. Farm, craft, and manage your new island life entirely at your own pace.
Road Survival: Bigger on the Inside
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
In a toxic, zombie-ridden wasteland, survival is brutal. Upgrade your RV into a foldable-space mobile base—farm, craft, gather resources, and fend off the undead to build your last safe haven.
Brightfall
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Brightfall is an isometric open-world survival-craft for 1-4 players where light is your last defence against a living darkness. Explore a cursed Celtic island, craft powerful weapons, build a safe haven, and fight to keep your flame alive - because when it dies, your sanity follows.
Frost Survival VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for By My Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Sandbox Survival in VR. Face a frozen wilderness solo or in co-op - build a shelter, craft tools, hunt for food, and manage your resources to endure harsh conditions. Strategize your moves against unpredictable weather and lurking dangers. And remember to keep yourself safe and sane!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below By My Side at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with By My Side.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie with By My Side.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie with By My Side.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with By My Side.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie with By My Side.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under By My Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Liquidators
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Stray Cats in Cozy Town
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with By My Side.
Welcome to Cozy Town, where every day is International Cat Day! Be part of a village community where every stray is respected, loved and fed. Explore the charming streets and alleys to discover all the stray cats in this hidden-object game.
Children of Silentown: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with By My Side.
Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.
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Frequently asked about By My Side
- How much does By My Side cost?
- By My Side is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does By My Side have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — By My Side supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to By My Side?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside By My Side are Island Beekeeper, Witchspire, Windpunk.
- Who developed By My Side?
- By My Side was developed by OverLKD Studio .
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 By My Side.
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