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Games like Almost Retired

If Almost Retired is your kind of game, the closest matches are ONE GIANT HOLE, Deep Space Exploitation and A Game About Cutting A Tree — 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 Almost Retired: A cozy zero-gravity mining sim. Cut layered meteors with three tools, fill your retirement fund, and make it to paradise, one quiet shift at a time. No death, no timers, no pressure.

2027IndieSimulationCasualWindows · Linuxby TillBlack
Almost Retired — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Almost Retired 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. ONE GIANT HOLE

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.

    Humanity teams up to dig BILLIONS of VOXELS to create the world’s biggest hole—together. Every swing makes this giant hole bigger! Obtain resources, upgrade your pickaxe, and chat with others using text or voice! Dig this giant shared hole with friends, strangers, or solo!

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Deep Space Exploitation

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.

    Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!

    2025ActionIndieSimulation8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. A Game About Cutting A Tree

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.

    A minimalist game about reclaiming an overgrown forest Chop down trees, gather Wood, sell it, upgrade your axe, and uncover secrets hidden beneath the roots.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation3.59 USDSteam ↗
  4. 10 Million Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.

    Mine through millions of pixels to find the one golden pixel. A mesmerizing incremental game about exploration and erosion.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Rockhopper

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Almost Retired.

    Become a space mining astronaut in this chill rogue-lite mining game. Explore, mine and complete objectives while unlocking and upgrading your equipment along the way.

    2024ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Asteroid Rodeo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.

    Asteroids are worth trillions. They're also spinning at 200 meters per second. You are a Wrangler—harpoon tumbling rocks, wrestle them to a dead stop with your custom-built ship, and mine them for credits. The pay is good. The survival rate is a conversation people avoid.

    2026ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Smash Hit Museum

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Almost Retired.

    Smash stones. Collect artifacts. Build the world’s most profitable museum. A short clicker game set in the archeology room of a museum. Build up your collection and Upgrade until you break it.

    2025ActionIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Hardspace: Shipbreaker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Almost Retired fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Almost Retired.

    Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

    2022Simulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Almost Retired.

    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 ↗
  4. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Almost Retired.

    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 ↗
  5. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Almost Retired.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Almost Retired

What games are most similar to Almost Retired?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Almost Retired are ONE GIANT HOLE, Deep Space Exploitation, A Game About Cutting A Tree.
Who developed Almost Retired?
Almost Retired was developed by TillBlack.

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 Almost Retired.

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