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Games like Essence Harvest

If Essence Harvest is your kind of game, the closest matches are ORE x TRACTOR, HordeFall and Protect the Pit — 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.

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About Essence Harvest: A unique combination of a classical incremental game with a more action based bullet-heaven game. Featuring a huge upgrade tree with around 200 permanent upgrades, plus relics, boons and more. Wishlist now and see how strong you can get.

2026ActionCasualWindows · Linuxby SinusQuell Games
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Steam players who put hours into Essence Harvest 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.

  1. ORE x TRACTOR

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    ORE x TRACTOR is a short, incremental game about demolishing space rocks with a variety of weaponry.

    2026StrategyCasualSteam ↗
  2. HordeFall

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Essence Harvest.

    A bulletheaven x incremental game that runs as a desktop companion in the corner of your screen! While you work, your hero automatically fights thousands of enemies. Unlock upgrades and manage your economy, attributes, and spells. Your screen is your battlefield - minimal space, maximum progress!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. Protect the Pit

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    Attack with your cursor, build towers and walls to defend your pit! An incremental clicker that combines tower defense, maze building, and large upgrade trees. Earn money, upgrade your defenses, and build winding mazes to stop the hordes of the Dark Forest.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  4. Growing My Manhole

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    Consume the universe, grow from Manhole to Black Hole in this insatiable incremental game.

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. Sludgineers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    Clean, mine and refine pollution in this active incremental game. Cruise through the countryside earning cash and resources, build a refinery, process materials, upgrade equipment, unlock new areas and complete quests.

    2026SimulationCasual5.59 USDSteam ↗
  6. Everybody Loves a Good Hole

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    Everybody Loves a Good Hole is a short, satisfying incremental about steering a black hole and swallowing everything in sight. Devour colorful cubes for XP and coins, grow bigger, and pour it all into a deep upgrade tree. Bigger cubes, wilder chaos, just one more run.

    2026CasualSteam ↗
  7. When stars rest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    A cozy third-person incremental shooter about awakening sleeping stars. Charge stars with your shots to collect energy, upgrade your weapons, unlock powerful automation, and awaken every star across the island.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  8. Harpooner

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Essence Harvest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Essence Harvest.

    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!

    2027ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

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  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Essence Harvest.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Essence Harvest.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Essence Harvest.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Essence Harvest.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Essence Harvest.

    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!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Essence Harvest

What games are most similar to Essence Harvest?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Essence Harvest are ORE x TRACTOR, HordeFall, Protect the Pit.
Who developed Essence Harvest?
Essence Harvest was developed by SinusQuell Games.

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 Essence Harvest.

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