Games like Detectimental
If Detectimental is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sushi Yummy, Farm to Fortune and It's Chopping Time! — 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 Detectimental: A metal detecting incremental game! Use your metal detector to find treasures hidden in the sand. The closer you move towards a treasure, the faster your blinker will beep. Make sure to recruit some crabs to help you out.
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Steam players who put hours into Detectimental 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.
Sushi Yummy
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Top pick for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Detectimental.
Eat 'em up!! Sushi Yummy is a cozy clicker about just eating sushi. Let's eat sushi, upgrade skills, and stack up plates to the sky!
Farm to Fortune
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Second-strongest match for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
Turn a tiny plot into a fortune, one seed at a time. Grow crops, sell them in your shop, and reinvest everything you earn. Better tools, more land, richer harvests. Relaxing from the first seed to the last field.
It's Chopping Time!
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Third-strongest match for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
Summon the mighty power of gods in this fun incremental game about chopping down trees on a secluded island by using the forces of nature: earthquakes, sunbeams, tornadoes, hail, lightning strikes and tidal waves! It's Chopping Time!
CRETA: Taskbar Fishing
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Ranked #4 for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
A cozy idle fishing game that lives on your taskbar. Catch and collect fish while you work, stream, or play something else, then open Advanced Mode to manage gear, professions, shack upgrades, and new regions.
Bottled by Bears
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Ranked #5 for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
Join a family of bears and run the buzziest little honey farm! Collect and discover rare bees, bottle honey jars, expand your farm, and watch your flowery field bloom in this cozy idle management game.
The Waking Grove
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Ranked #6 for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
A cozy incremental idle about restoring a dead garden, one tile at a time. Spread life across the seasons and let the soil remember everything you grew.
Dinosaurium
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Ranked #7 for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
Relax and collect over 500 unique dinosaurs in this cozy idle game. Watch hatchlings grow into towering giants in real-time, customize prehistoric habitats across 9 themed packs, and discover rare species from tiny raptors to mighty sauropods.
Gacha The Frog
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Ranked #8 for Detectimental fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Detectimental.
Collect and play with cute frogs in a cozy physics simulation. Use the machine to get new frogs, play mini-games to improve the odds of getting legendary frogs and manage your space so you can keep playing. Can you complete the album?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Detectimental.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
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.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Detectimental.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Detectimental.
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.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Detectimental.
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.
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Frequently asked about Detectimental
- What games are most similar to Detectimental?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Detectimental are Sushi Yummy, Farm to Fortune, It's Chopping Time!.
- Who developed Detectimental?
- Detectimental was developed by Riverstorm.
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 Detectimental.
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