Games like Metal Detecting Days
If Metal Detecting Days is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mow A Lawn, Recreation Room and Once Upon a Swagman — 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 Metal Detecting Days: A relaxing metal detecting simulator where you manually sweep your detector, interpret realistic signals, and explore beautiful locations at your own pace. Dig up historical coins, relics, and forgotten curiosities, upgrade your gear, and build a personal collection.

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Mow A Lawn
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Top pick for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Metal Detecting Days.
Cut grass. Sell grass. Buy a bigger thing to cut grass with. Repeat until the boss says so. There's treasure buried out there somewhere, and the boss is in no hurry either.
Recreation Room
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Second-strongest match for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detecting Days.
Your personal holo-deck, escape the stressful real world and take a nice walk!
Once Upon a Swagman
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Third-strongest match for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detecting Days.
A relaxing and casual survival experience where you journey from town to town along a beautiful pixel art coastline, building your skills as a traditional Australian swagman. Fish, cook, and bushcraft to survive, and enjoy the serenity of a simpler life... but not one without its own dangers
Prolific Mindset
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Ranked #4 for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Metal Detecting Days.
Opt out of the rat race in Prolific Mindset, a cozy first-person life sim where a like-minded community shares what actually works — build wealth, master habits, and learn the money and life lessons school skipped.
Bigfoot Life
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Ranked #5 for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Metal Detecting Days.
Live as Bigfoot in a peaceful forest-life simulator. Fish, forage, build, and protect wildlife as the guardian of the woods. Create your own Bigfoot and live your best Bigfoot Life.
Flea Market Simulator '24
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Ranked #6 for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Metal Detecting Days.
Flea Market Simulator '24 Work, Bargain&Buy, Repair&Sell Take care of antique or fake items. Adding this game to your wishlist allows me to improve my game further. If you care about my project, add it to your wishlist to improve the game together with me.
Pastor's Lake: The Game
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Ranked #7 for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detecting Days.
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a country village and enjoy the rhythm of life in nature. In "Pastor's Lake" you can go fishing, build a sauna, farm, hunt, explore nature and more, without being limited to a linear plot.
Castle Rock Beach, West Australia
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Ranked #8 for Metal Detecting Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detecting Days.
Explore a realistically inspired Unreal Engine recreation of Australia's south west coast. *will be included as part of the "Lushfoil Photography Sim" compilation, coming soon.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Metal Detecting Days.
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 Metal Detecting Days.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metal Detecting Days.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detecting Days.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Metal Detecting Days.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Metal Detecting Days.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detecting Days.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Detecting Days.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Metal Detecting Days
- What games are most similar to Metal Detecting Days?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metal Detecting Days are Mow A Lawn, Recreation Room, Once Upon a Swagman.
- Who developed Metal Detecting Days?
- Metal Detecting Days was developed by Ganta.
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 Metal Detecting Days.
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