Games like Dear Home
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Dear Home for fans of indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Dear Home also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Dear Home: Dear Home is an adventure game with puzzles and exploration on an unknown planet.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Nine Lives
Top pick for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dear Home.
To earn its nine lives a cat must survive the nine trials by solving increasingly intricate puzzles, that might require it to die a few times.
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Big Dig Energy
Second-strongest match for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
Do you have the Big Dig Energy!? The best co-op mining game with online multiplayer for up to 4 players! Team up, dig deep, mine energy ore, and upgrade your tools. Reach the planets core to fuel the rocket and leave Earth!
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Minecraft Dungeons
Third-strongest match for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dear Home.
Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!
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Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
Ranked #4 for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas combines captivating storytelling, breathtaking 3D visuals and exciting gameplay into one epic action-adventure experience. In the game you explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets.
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Bookbound Brigade
Ranked #5 for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
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Death's Door
Ranked #6 for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
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Echo Generation: Midnight Edition
Ranked #7 for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
Lead a gang of kids to uncover spooky mysteries, battle creatures, and explore the supernatural side of your hometown in Echo Generation, a turn-based adventure set in the 90s.
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Don't open the doors!
Ranked #8 for Dear Home fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
Claymation action adventure in an odd world of talking pumpkins, blue trees and stuff like that.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dear Home at current Steam store prices.
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~80% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
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?
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The Test
Priced ~60% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
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?
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Priced ~70% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
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.
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Blood and Bacon
Priced ~80% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dear Home.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
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shapez
Priced ~80% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dear Home.
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!
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The Test: Hypothesis Rising
Priced ~60% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
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?
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The NOexistenceN of you AND me
Priced ~60% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
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".
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Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
Priced ~80% under Dear Home on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dear Home.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dear Home.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dear Home.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dear Home.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dear Home.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dear Home.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dear Home.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dear Home
- How much does Dear Home cost?
- Dear Home is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dear Home?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dear Home are Nine Lives, Big Dig Energy, Minecraft Dungeons.
- Who developed Dear Home?
- Dear Home was developed by Growing Seed 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 Home.
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