Games like Forager
If Forager is your kind of game, the closest matches are Core Keeper, Satisfactory and Survive on Raft — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its automation feels satisfying, chill and cozy. 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 →Forager is a 2019 action-adventure indie game from HopFrog, priced at $19.99 and verified for Steam Deck. Players explore multiple procedurally generated islands, gathering resources, crafting items, and expanding their base through automation systems, while also facing boss fights throughout the experience. The game blends survival-crafting with island expansion and inventory management across bite-sized locations. Reviewers describe the art style as cute and inviting, while players note the automation feels satisfying and boss encounters are tense but fair. The 88% positive rating from over 13,000 Steam reviews reflects its appeal to fans of simulation and crafting games seeking a chill experience.
About Forager: The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Players who liked Forager also play
Steam players who put hours into Forager 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.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares automation, crafting and a cozy mood with Forager.
Top pick for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Survive on Raft
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with Forager.
Third-strongest match for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
Survive on Raft is a Survival Sandbox Simulator on the Raft in the middle of the ocean! Fight with shark, build base, craft, loot islands, farm and survive. Play solo or with friends.
Outpath
WHY THIS
Shares automation, resource gathering and a relaxing mood with Forager.
Ranked #4 for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Forager.
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Forager.
Ranked #5 for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Forager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Forager
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Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Forager.
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Outpath
WHY THIS
Shares automation, resource gathering and a relaxing mood with Forager.
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Forager.
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares automation, crafting and a cozy mood with Forager.
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Vexlands
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Vexlands is a realm of surprises. Every newly opened space brings a surprise: loot, resources, dungeons, monsters and disasters! Build your village where you craft new equipment before you explore uncharted areas, and find relics that explain who came before and why these lands are cursed.
Child of Light
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and procedural generation with Forager.
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Forager.
Reviewers of Forager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forager at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and procedural generation with Forager.
Priced ~50% under Forager on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Forager on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forager on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forager on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forager.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forager on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forager on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forager.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Indie with Forager.
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 Action and Adventure with Forager.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
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 Action and Indie with Forager.
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. Shares Indie with Forager.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Core Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares automation, crafting and a cozy mood with Forager.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Forager.
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Nova Lands
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Forager.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Forager.
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Forager.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Frequently asked about Forager
- Is Forager verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Forager is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Forager cost?
- Forager is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Forager?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forager are Core Keeper, Satisfactory, Survive on Raft.
- Who developed Forager?
- Forager was developed by HopFrog and published by Balor Games.
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