Games like Leaves & Lanterns
If Leaves & Lanterns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Landscaper Simulator, Sealcoating Simulator and Animal Clicking — 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 Leaves & Lanterns: A cozy first-person autumn game. Rake and blow drifting leaves into big, satisfying piles, tidy three beautiful places, and light paper lanterns to bring each one aglow. No timers, no fail states — just leaves, lanterns, and calm.
Players who liked Leaves & Lanterns also play
Steam players who put hours into Leaves & Lanterns 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.
Landscaper Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Lawns are wild. Parks are buried in weeds. Streets are littered. The world needs a hero, and that’s where you come in. As the Landscaper, it’s your job to turn disorder into beauty. With your weed whacker, pressure washer, and trash vacuum, you’ll trim, wash, and restore every space to perfection.
Sealcoating Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Sealcoating Simulator is a first-person game about the oddly satisfying craft of sealing asphalt. Pour it, spread it, and watch a tired old driveway turn deep black and glossy. It is calm, cozy and weirdly hard to put down: the kind of game you start for five minutes and look up an hour later.
Animal Clicking
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
Animal Clicking is a cute, cozy island builder that blends farming, automation, and resource management with the addictive gameplay loop of clicker games into a completely new sandbox experience.
Froggy Daycare
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Baby frogs keep washing up on the shore! Help Kisu "the Gardener Cat" with the important task of taking care of the babies.
Capybaria
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
The coziest yet craziest game about capybara! Chill in hot springs, build architectural masterpieces, and start a family... then get behind the wheel, fly to space, or decide whether to let the President detonate a nuclear bomb. Your karma decides the fate of this world!
Clean It Up!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Manage your cleaning store where you clean and polish every last smudge of dirt. Use the profits to upgrade your supplies and keep everything clean.
Twigs and Firewood
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
The Office Cat
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Leaves & Lanterns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Bring chaos to the office as a playful cat! Explore, knock things over, and interact with objects to create fun messes. Discover secrets and enjoy a relaxed sandbox full of mischief.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Leaves & Lanterns at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
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 ~58% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
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 ~58% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Leaves & Lanterns on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Leaves & Lanterns.
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.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
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 with Leaves & Lanterns.
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 Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
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 with Leaves & Lanterns.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Meridian Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Meridian Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hexhorde
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
The Ancient Caverns
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
Bagatto
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
Bulwark Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
Twigs and Firewood
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
Crownhold
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie and Casual with Leaves & Lanterns.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
Verlicia Saga
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie with Leaves & Lanterns.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
The Antler and Ale Inn
WHY THIS
Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Leaves & Lanterns. Shares Indie and Simulation with Leaves & Lanterns.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.
Frequently asked about Leaves & Lanterns
- How much does Leaves & Lanterns cost?
- Leaves & Lanterns is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Leaves & Lanterns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Leaves & Lanterns are Landscaper Simulator, Sealcoating Simulator, Animal Clicking.
- Who developed Leaves & Lanterns?
- Leaves & Lanterns was developed by Meridian Studios.
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