Games like Because It's There
If Because It's There is your kind of game, the closest matches are Woodland Rebels, Rocket Science and Worlds Adrift — 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 Because It's There: An engineering/survival game where you summit the tallest mountain in a vast, uncharted world. For the journey, carefully construct flying wooden bases with realistic structural failures. Brave thunderstorms, freezing temperatures, bears and wolves. Answer the call of the untamed wilderness.
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Steam players who put hours into Because It's There 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.
Woodland Rebels
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Top pick for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Rocket Science
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Second-strongest match for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Because It's There.
Take part in a space program. Design spacecrafts and send them off to explore the vast expanses of space. Experience the real scale of the Solar system and the size of its celestial bodies.
Worlds Adrift
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Third-strongest match for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
We're tired of endless grinding, mini-maps and predetermined fun. That's why we intend to redefine MMOs and empower our players to find their own destiny, write their own stories, and leave a lasting impression on the world they helped us create. How will you impact it and what will your legacy be?
The Ranchers
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Ranked #4 for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.
Ars Notoria
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Ranked #5 for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Because It's There.
Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.
Stars Reach
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Ranked #6 for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with Because It's There.
Explore a living galaxy in Stars Reach. Discover new planets, build settlements, and shape environments that react to everything you do. Players work together to transform untamed worlds into thriving civilizations across a single shared universe.
Island Beekeeper
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Ranked #7 for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
Build your apiary on islands above the clouds, travel on your medocycle, crossbreed bees with unique traits and create a cozy home in the sky. Grow plants, explore islands and send healing honey down to Earth, where people still hope for your help.
MISERY
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Ranked #8 for Because It's There fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Because It's There.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Because It's There.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
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!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Because It's There.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Because It's There.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Because It's There
- What games are most similar to Because It's There?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Because It's There are Woodland Rebels, Rocket Science, Worlds Adrift.
- Who developed Because It's There?
- Because It's There was developed by Garliot 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 Because It's There.
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