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Games like Harvest Story

If Harvest Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Robot In Kitchen, Home Brewed and Restock Master — 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 Harvest Story: Merge ingredients on a tiny platform, cook up dishes, and sell your way to survival. The landlord shows up every week like clockwork, and rent only gets steeper—so merging isn't enough, you need a plan. Hire robots to automate production, unlock a tech tree to expand your farm.

StrategyWindows · macOSby CYCLOPS
Harvest Story — Steam game cover

Players who liked Harvest Story also play

Steam players who put hours into Harvest Story 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. Robot In Kitchen

    WHY THIS

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

    Winner of four 2026 NYX Awards. Manage a classic shop through hardcore time management and order processing. Cook global cuisines, upgrade kitchen tech like Omni pots, and unlock fully automated branches. Enjoy refined animations while building your transnational culinary empire.

    2026StrategyFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  2. Home Brewed

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Harvest Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Leave everything behind and start your dream coffee business! Start your small coffee shop in your hometown, serve your friendly neighbors, and build friendships. Upgrade and expand your business to new cities, until you reach the top!

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Restock Master

    WHY THIS

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

    The doors are locked, the parking lot is empty, and the aisles are in complete disarray. Restock Master is a first person supermarket organization game. Pick up scattered groceries, sort them out, and fill every empty shelf. No clocks, no customers, no stress.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Start Your Stall JianBing Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Harvest Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A casual desktop idle simulation game. Run your own Chinese pancake stall on your desktop, unlock full automatic operation, manage cooking ingredients, and gain steady offline growth. It also includes market exploration and cozy laid-back idle gameplay for casual relaxing play.

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Tidy Up Together

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Harvest Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Catastrophe! An evil wizard has cast a tornado spell on your shop, and now all your products are on the floor. Maybe you'll ask some friends for help to tidy up?

    2026IndieSimulationCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Kinny and the Cosmic Cauldron

    WHY THIS

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

    Cook or be cooked! In this cosmic deck-building roguelike, ingredients crash, merge, and react in chaotic ways. As the witch chef of Stewpendous Spoons, craft the perfect stew, master strategic combos, and satisfy bizarre patrons, before you end up in the cauldron yourself!

    2026StrategyIndieCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Treasure Beach

    WHY THIS

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

    Scavenge the beach and run a cozy trinket shop by the sea! Find hidden treasures or trash, clean and repair your finds, put them up for sale, and upgrade your workshop. Dig deeper and faster to make more money and buy back the beach from the greedy hotel.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Box Bakery

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Harvest Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Run your dream bakery, make friends with adorable animals, collect friendship photos and unique scrapbook elements. Forge ahead, using the power of baking to solve the town’s challenges. Let every animal enjoy its favorite bread—and open up about the secrets they’ve kept hidden.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 ↗
  2. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

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

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

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

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 100 Asian Cats

    WHY THIS

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

    🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️‍♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️‍♂️🐈✅

    2023ActionSportsStrategyFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from CYCLOPS

Other recommendable Steam games by CYCLOPS, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Goblin's Shop

    WHY THIS

    Another title from CYCLOPS, the studio behind Harvest Story. Shares Strategy with Harvest Story.

    This is a pixel-art simulation game in which the player runs a shop, together with RPG adventures. In Goblin’s Shop, the player is a goblin who has been bullied by humans and he always wants to get it even. So he decided to sell weapons, armors and potions to other monsters.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Fantasy Village Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Another title from CYCLOPS, the studio behind Harvest Story. Shares Strategy with Harvest Story.

    Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Potventure

    WHY THIS

    Another title from CYCLOPS, the studio behind Harvest Story. Shares Strategy with Harvest Story.

    Open a restaurant on a fantasy continent and build a culinary empire, one dish at a time. Explore, gather, cook, and expand — while six rival empires plot their own rise. Survive crises, seize opportunities, and carve your own path to victory.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Harvest Story

What games are most similar to Harvest Story?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Harvest Story are Robot In Kitchen, Home Brewed, Restock Master.
Who developed Harvest Story?
Harvest Story was developed by CYCLOPS.

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 Harvest Story.

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