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Games like Long Dives

If Long Dives is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mergeopolis, The Last Mothership and Pibcremental — 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 Long Dives: Sink a mining outpost into the deep and keep it growing while you're away. Dive through ten depths, automate everything, decode the Archive, and strike covenants with the dark. A layered idle-incremental with 50 achievements, full offline progress, illustrated in pixel-art.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindowsby KazooKat
Long Dives — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Long Dives 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. Mergeopolis

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.

    Merge matching buildings to grow a tiny island into a thriving city. Plan residential, commercial, industrial, and civic districts, reinvest their income, unlock more land, and build at your own pace in this relaxing incremental city builder.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. The Last Mothership

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Long Dives.

    A short incremental game about harvesting planets to feed your mothership. Mine, manage resources, grow your fleet, and unlock upgrades to evolve your species. You are the devourer of worlds.

    CasualSteam ↗
  3. Pibcremental

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.

    A cozy, chaotic idle-incremental clicker about growing a civilisation of tiny creatures called Pibbles in a giant tree, set in a post-human world.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Incremental Donuts

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.

    Start with one donut. End with a multidimensional bakery empire. Click, automate, expand, unlock the Research Lab, run a Storefront, and break through to the Donut Hole. A layered idle game that keeps unfolding new systems until your mouse screams for mercy.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. Project: C.E.L.L.

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.

    Project: C.E.L.L. is a short arcade incremental about jumpstarting a dying cell. Break glucose, build combos, and unleash special charges inside a retro terminal simulation.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  6. SCP Idle: SECURE. CONTAIN. PROGRESS.

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.

    In this incremental game you are in charge of managing a SCP facility site. Construct and upgrade new containment chambers, prevent devastating breaches and complete the Thaumiel Containment Engine.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. What the Buck?!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.

    What the Buck?! is an incremental game about destroying money. Smash stacks of cash, upgrade your destructive power, discover game-changing skill tree upgrades, prestige and experience the dopamine of numbers exploding.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Facrobry

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Long Dives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Long Dives.

    Facrobry is a strategy-simulator in which you will manage an automated robot production station. Research upgrades, assemble robots, and send them into battle!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Long Dives.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Long Dives.

    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 ↗
  4. 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 Simulation with Long Dives.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Long Dives.

    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 ↗
  6. 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 Long Dives.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Long Dives.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Long Dives.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Long Dives

What games are most similar to Long Dives?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Long Dives are Mergeopolis, The Last Mothership, Pibcremental.
Who developed Long Dives?
Long Dives was developed by KazooKat and published by Go Do Corp..

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 Long Dives.

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