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Games like Dear Gardener

If Dear Gardener is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tidy Up Together, Medovox and Supermarket Organizer — 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 Dear Gardener: A quiet first-person game about honest work, kind employers with secrets, and a crow who steals.

2026IndieAdventureSimulationCasualWindowsby Youkoso Games
Dear Gardener — Steam game cover

Players who liked Dear Gardener also play

Steam players who put hours into Dear Gardener 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. Tidy Up Together

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. Medovox

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dear Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Gardener.

    Medovox is a cozy life simulator and open-world sandbox. Manage your farm, complete quests, and freely explore nature. Enjoy complete freedom, customize your home, and experience the ultimate countryside tranquility.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Supermarket Organizer

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dear Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Dear Gardener.

    Transform empty Japanese convenience stores into cozy konbinis. Unbox furniture, organize products, and enjoy the relaxing satisfaction of creating the perfect little shop.

    2026SimulationCasualSteam ↗
  4. Family Time

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dear Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Gardener.

    Build a family of thousands of wolf children with your own wolf partner!

    2027IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Hardware Store: Tidy Up

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dear Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dear Gardener.

    A cozy sorting simulator about calmly putting a chaotic hardware store back in order. Pick up tools, find their shelves, and enjoy the relaxing rhythm of organizing.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  6. Quadrillion Carrots

    WHY THIS

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

    Harvest an absurd number of carrots! Start with your bare hands, unlock powerful tools and helper robots, explore six farming zones, catch living carrots, survive explosive ones, and turn manual labor into harvesting chaos.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  7. Shrommzzz: Mushroom Foraging

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dear Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Gardener.

    Fung around and find out! A cozy mushroom foraging and exploration game. Plant shromspores on 6 different islands to unlock all combinations. Can you make all 105 of 'em pop up? Challenge accepted!

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. A Needle In A Haystack: Sorting Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dear Gardener fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Gardener.

    Find the needle in a haystack! Dig, sort and sell your way through mountains of hay in this satisfying sorting simulation game. Earn money, upgrade your barn, unlock new tools and make finding that needle a little easier!

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Dear Gardener.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dear Gardener.

    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 ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Gardener.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Dear Gardener.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Gardener.

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dear Gardener

What games are most similar to Dear Gardener?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dear Gardener are Tidy Up Together, Medovox, Supermarket Organizer.
Who developed Dear Gardener?
Dear Gardener was developed by Youkoso Games.

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 Dear Gardener.

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