Games like Hard Work
If Hard Work is your kind of game, the closest matches are Villa's Blinds, Weedcraft Inc and Little Big Workshop — 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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Villa's Blinds
WHY THIS
Top pick for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Hello graduates! You have a degree on computer engineering and you can’t find a job? Start now to develop a game in your rental garage. Advertise them and gather your own fan base. Earn your pocket money! Of course, you won’t live in this garbage dump till the end!
Weedcraft Inc
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.
Little Big Workshop
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hard Work.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Potionomics
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
MineMogul
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Startup Company
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hard Work fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hard Work at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard Work.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Work.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard Work.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hard Work.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Work.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Hard Work.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Hard Work on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard Work.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Work.
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.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Work.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Work.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hard Work.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard Work.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard Work.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
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Frequently asked about Hard Work
- How much does Hard Work cost?
- Hard Work is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hard Work?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hard Work are Villa's Blinds, Weedcraft Inc, Little Big Workshop.
- Who developed Hard Work?
- Hard Work was developed by ZarioSide.
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 Hard Work.
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