Games like Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship
If Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship is your kind of game, the closest matches are Windstorm: An Unexpected Arrival, Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship - Remastered and Reiterland - Meine Rennpferde — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and relaxing. 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 Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship: Discover the fascinating story of Mika, a girl known as a horse whisperer, as she tries to befriend the black stallion called Windstorm.
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Steam players who put hours into Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship 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.
Windstorm: An Unexpected Arrival
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Top pick for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
In the official game based on the movie ’Windstorm: Ari’s Arrival’, experience the story of Ari as she arrives in the Alpine area and quickly befriends Windstorm. Together they will go on exciting horse riding adventures and discover the true meaning of friendship!
Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship - Remastered
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Rediscover the breathtaking world of Windstorm. Delve into the fascinating story of Mika, a girl known as a horse whisperer, as she befriends the majestic black stallion called Windstorm – with fully updated graphics and a new photo mode!
Reiterland - Meine Rennpferde
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Reiterland: Meine Rennpferde is a horse racing game. Select your horse and equipment for the race and beat the time or complete missions. Control the horse with the keyboard in three difficulty levels. Compete against up to 7 other players via the internet on different tracks in all four seasons.
The Legend of Khiimori
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Ranked #4 for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Take on the role of a brave courier rider in The Legend of Khiimori! Bond with your horse and tame the open wilds of 13th century Mongolia. Breed and train horses with specialized abilities to explore every aspect of this diverse and fascinating landscape.
Offroad Frontiers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Racing with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Offroad Frontiers is an off-road driving experience that combines realistic vehicle physics with vast, immersive environments designed for exploration, challenge, and freedom. Drive your favorite 4x4 vehicle and push it to the limit across different terrains.
Horse Riding Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and a cozy mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Ranked #6 for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Explore a beautiful open world, full of horses and other animals. Or just enjoy the beautiful view while riding. In the world of Horse Riding Deluxe you and your horses have no limits. But train and care for your horses well because the various races will demand everything from you!
My Life: Riding Stables 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Racing with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Love horses more than all else? Join us in the exciting world of horses!
Horse Riding Deluxe 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Horse Riding Deluxe 2 is almost all about horses. You can buy, tame, train, feed, and personalize horses. A number of quests and racetracks await you in the huge open world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship
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Red Dead Redemption 2
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Reviewers of Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
Star Fable
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Play as the last Star Princess in a magical Metroidvania adventure. Transform into Stardust to slip through walls, or summon a Slurp to squeeze into hidden spaces. Restore the broken wishes of a land in mourning.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Reviewers of Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship cross-mention this title as a similar play.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
Farming Simulator 19
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Reviewers of Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.
Yu Crossing Animals
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Reviewers of Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Yu's got a new job - working as a mayor's assistant in a small town.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Aesir Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Aesir Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Welcome to Brighton! Join the police force of this fictitious American city and experience the day to day life of a police officer.
The Legend of Khiimori
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Take on the role of a brave courier rider in The Legend of Khiimori! Bond with your horse and tame the open wilds of 13th century Mongolia. Breed and train horses with specialized abilities to explore every aspect of this diverse and fascinating landscape.
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Dedicate your life to saving others. As soon as you receive the emergency call, speed off to the site of the accident in your ambulance, sirens wailing. Apply first aid and transport the seriously injured to hospital. Every second counts!
Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Set off on a captivating horseback adventure and discover the mysteries of Emerald Valley!
Race.a.bit
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Racing with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
A retro racing on crazy tracks – completely in the style of 8 and 16-bit classics. Enjoy the reinterpretation of old-school gameplay in combination with perfect controls and the driving beats of unique artist Bit Shifter!
Windstorm: An Unexpected Arrival
WHY THIS
Shares open world exploration and an atmospheric mood with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
In the official game based on the movie ’Windstorm: Ari’s Arrival’, experience the story of Ari as she arrives in the Alpine area and quickly befriends Windstorm. Together they will go on exciting horse riding adventures and discover the true meaning of friendship!
Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship - Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
Rediscover the breathtaking world of Windstorm. Delve into the fascinating story of Mika, a girl known as a horse whisperer, as she befriends the majestic black stallion called Windstorm – with fully updated graphics and a new photo mode!
EverRail
WHY THIS
Another title from Aesir Interactive, the studio behind Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship.
A survival crafting adventure set in an infinite frozen world, where your train is your only refuge. Build and expand it into a moving fortress as you journey alone or with up to 4 players. Rescue survivors to stay alive, every loss costs a passenger. Stop for too long, and you risk losing it all.
Frequently asked about Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship
- Does Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship run on Steam Deck?
- Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship cost?
- Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship are Windstorm: An Unexpected Arrival, Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship - Remastered, Reiterland - Meine Rennpferde.
- Who developed Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship?
- Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship was developed by Aesir Interactive and published by Mindscape.
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