Games Like No Place Like Home

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.7%, Agriculture 17.8% ★, Life Sim 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the cozy post-apocalyptic aesthetic, focusing on salvaging trash and rebuilding a home on a rooftop.

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.2%, Life Sim 15.6%, Agriculture 15% ★, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the core loop of rebuilding a town through crafting, farming, and fulfilling requests for the local community.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.5%, Life Sim 21%, Crafting 14%, Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep crafting and community restoration mechanics set in a desert environment that requires significant effort to improve.

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Base Building 30.3%, Crafting 22.6%, Building 18%, Open World 10.7%, Immersive Sim 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like No Place Like Home, this game centers on terraforming a hostile, barren wasteland into a lush environment through exploration and base-building.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Agriculture 25% ★, Farming Sim 19.4%, Fishing 13.6% ★, Life Sim 11.3%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival and farming with the goal of building up a town in a unique, nature-focused setting.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Cute 27%, Open World 26.4%, Exploration 23.7%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar loop of exploring a vibrant world, gathering resources, and managing a farm while cleaning up the environment.

Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.6%, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Life Sim 15%, Fishing 9.6% ★, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This modern farming sim features a strong environmental theme where you actively clean up the ocean floor and restore the island's health.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24%, Agriculture 17% ★, Life Sim 12.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on community development and agricultural advancement in a prehistoric setting that feels rewarding and cozy.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Agriculture 19.5% ★, Farming Sim 15.9%, Life Sim 14.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Fishing 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing life-sim that focuses on rebuilding a town after a world-saving event, emphasizing peaceful progression.

You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Why similar: Agriculture 24.6% ★, Farming Sim 23%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.4%, Open World 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on animal-based farming, crafting, and exploration in a colorful world that encourages creative building.

A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.

Why similar: Dogs 34.4% ★, Farming Sim 15.1%, Fishing 11.6% ★, Life Sim 8%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy farming sim that places a heavy emphasis on animal interaction and restoring a neglected farmstead.

Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.6%, Agriculture 18.9% ★, Life Sim 15.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Nature 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features island exploration, farming, and environmental care, capturing a similar sense of cozy isolation.

Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.9%, Agriculture 21.7% ★, Life Sim 14.3%, Nature 9.7%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the restoration of a dying world through gardening, exploration, and nurturing the environment back to life.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Crafting 22.1%, Base Building 21.2%, Building 19.1%, Nature 18.7%, Open World 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends exploration, dungeon crawling, and farming, allowing you to build a home while uncovering the secrets of a mysterious island.

Unwind and enjoy the slow life in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a relaxing open-world adventure game. Yonder is set in the world of Gemea. A natural island paradise with eight distinct environments ranging from tropical beaches to snow-capped summits.

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.9%, Agriculture 15.3% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Open World 10.5%, Fishing 8.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: You explore a beautiful world and clear away the 'murk' to restore the land, which mirrors the environmental cleanup aspect of your seed game.

Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.4%, Agriculture 17.5% ★, Fishing 16.1% ★, Life Sim 13.3%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers extensive creative building and town management tools for players who enjoy customizing their environment.

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Base Building 29.2%, Building 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Open World 12.9%, Exploration 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that starts with primitive crafting and evolves into complex base-building and technology restoration.

A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

Why similar: Farming Sim 25%, Agriculture 16.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Nature 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game tasks you with restoring a desert landscape through gardening and survival, mirroring the theme of healing a damaged world.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Crafting 33.1%, Base Building 28.6%, Building 21.3%, Open World 14.2%, Simulation 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Much like the recycling mechanic in your seed game, this title tasks you with gathering trash from the ocean to expand and sustain your base.

Welcome to Olive Town, a peaceful community established by your trailblazing grandfather and his friends. Now that you've taken over his farm, it's your job to carry on his legacy. Plant crops, raise animals, build relationships, and get to know the residents of your new home!

Why similar: Dogs 25% ★, Farming Sim 24.4%, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Life Sim 12.9%, Building 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title features land clearing and farm development mechanics that feel very similar to the initial stages of No Place Like Home.

Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

Why similar: Fishing 22.5% ★, Farming Sim 21.9%, Life Sim 12.9%, Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features cute, cat-led island restoration and farming, focusing on rebuilding a community from scratch.

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25%, Agriculture 19.6% ★, Life Sim 13.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi farming sim that focuses on colony building and transforming a barren alien planet into a productive farm.

LIVE like a LATIN COWBOY as you EXPLORE, HELP others, and bring HARMONY between HUMANS and MYSTICAL BEINGS in a RELAXING COZY ADVENTURE.

Why similar: Dogs 31.9% ★, Farming Sim 14.8%, Fishing 11.8% ★, Life Sim 7.9%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on animal husbandry and exploration in a cozy, stylized world.

Build your dream farm with your friends & animals in Big Farm Story. Grow crops, tend your fields, craft and explore the world in this farming adventure. Meet new friends around each corner, shape your own community and have fun writing your own story.

Why similar: Dogs 29.8% ★, Farming Sim 21.2%, Life Sim 13.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Nature 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a story-driven approach to farming and animal care that feels approachable and relaxing.

Put down roots on your new farm in the peaceful town of Forgotten Valley. Bring life to the land by cultivating crops and raising animals, find love among the town's friendly folk, and make lasting memories with a family of your very own.

Why similar: Dogs 25.9% ★, Agriculture 20.7% ★, Farming Sim 13.5%, Life Sim 13.1%, Nature 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic farming experience that emphasizes long-term growth and life simulation in a cozy, rural setting.

Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.6%, Agriculture 20.9% ★, Life Sim 15.9%, Crafting 6.8%, Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines traditional farming with a focus on repairing and restoring old, dilapidated farm buildings.

First-person Alchemist Simulator with RPG elements. Explore the world, gather ingredients, and sell or use potions you craft to help others and fend off enemies. Adopt pets to help you with your alchemy knowledge (and to pet them). Decorate your home however you like and brew your destiny!

Why similar: Dogs 28% ★, Farming Sim 20.6%, Life Sim 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines exploration and crafting with a focus on cozy mechanics and interacting with a whimsical world.

Heal a scarred island, rebuild habitats, play with your dog, design your sanctuary, and relax by the fire. Turn this broken, trash-filled island into a thriving sanctuary — one clean sweep at a time.

Why similar: Dogs 56.3% ★, Life Sim 12.5%, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Relaxing 6%, Exploration 5.2%

Forage, frolic and zoomie as an intelligent, aww-dorable animal who discovers an ancient mech. Pilot the mech and use a suite of powerful tools to gather resources, shape the land, and build your ideal town alongside a growing cast of characters—solo or with up to three friends.

Why similar: Dogs 26.4% ★, Farming Sim 15.8%, Fishing 14% ★, Life Sim 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%

Discover a world of magic, cute creatures and adventure in Alchemy Story, a casual farming simulation game! Grow your garden, brew potions, care for your pets and meet new friends!

Why similar: Farming Sim 22%, Agriculture 19.9% ★, Fishing 15.1% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Life Sim 9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy game that mixes farming and alchemy, focusing on helping villagers and restoring the land.

Sunrise's Order is a farm simulation game in which the player is alone on an island, and seeks to become an accomplished small farmer. The player must use a delivery service called Animazon to support the farm and grow the farm's reputation.

Why similar: Dogs 19.9% ★, Farming Sim 18.1%, Agriculture 16.6% ★, Life Sim 9.8%, Crafting 7.4%

Escape the stress of the big city and enjoy the country life. Take care of your farm, explore the open game world and create your farming paradise. Take care of your animals, cultivate the fields, produce useful and decorative items and build your dream ranch.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.3%, Agriculture 18.3% ★, Fishing 15.4% ★, Life Sim 9.1%, Nature 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world farming sim that encourages exploration and building your farm at your own pace.

Discover the wild planet Ankora and explore freely around this mysterious world full of promise and danger. Craft different tools, build structures and terraform yourself a new home in this cute-as-heck survival game.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.6%, Agriculture 22% ★, Nature 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival and exploration game set on a strange planet that requires crafting and resource management to survive.

Doloc Town is a cozy pixel-art farming simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Build your dream farm from scratch and explore this mysterious wasteland. Harvest, plant, build, and uncover the untold stories of this forgotten land.

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.6%, Fishing 19.7% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Building 9.5%

Build your ideal, cozy farm in a living village. Form bonds with fellow villagers to lend a hand as you grow crops, care for animals, and craft a corner of paradise. Sail across enchanted islands to discover new resources and adventures along the way.

Why similar: Dogs 32.1% ★, Farming Sim 23.6%, Life Sim 11.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 7%

Armed with hand-me-down tools and some cash, you begin your new life as THE Chief Farmer, a position your grandfather once excelled in. Can you honor his legacy and transform the overgrown, untamed and desolate floating island into a flourishing farm abundant with produce?

Why similar: Farming Sim 19%, Agriculture 16% ★, Fishing 14.2% ★, Life Sim 10.8%, Crafting 9%

Tired of the city grind? Escape to Starsand Island and embrace the simple joys of country life! Live alongside capybaras, cats, and dogs, reel in a big catch, and explore the enchanting Moonlit Forest. Leave the hustle behind and experience the charm of this seaside paradise.

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.3%, Life Sim 16.6%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 11%, Immersive Sim 7.9%

“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Why similar: Farming Sim 19.4%, Agriculture 16.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Life Sim 10.7%, Crafting 10.6%

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.2%, Life Sim 18.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Open World 7.4%, RPG 6.8%

Song of The Prairie is a 3D relaxing farm game. A hero who defeat the demon begins a new rural life. Experiencing the fun of exploration to the town. Harvesting giant fruits and crops. Taking care fantastic animals. Dating with someone you like. Just enjoy the farming life only belongs to you!

Why similar: Farming Sim 25%, Agriculture 22.5% ★, Life Sim 14.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 5.5%

A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.7%, Fishing 23.3% ★, Life Sim 15.6%, Open World 7%, Relaxing 6.3%

Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20%, Agriculture 18.7% ★, Fishing 16.2% ★, Life Sim 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%

Run a diner on the last island in the world after the destruction of humankind! For the cute animals and robots that survived, cook delicious food, run a farm, explore the forest, and create the best diner!

Why similar: Farming Sim 23%, Agriculture 19.8% ★, Life Sim 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Immersive Sim 9.4%

Develop a village colony on Mars, using various resources and bringing the unique flavor of Russian culture to the distant space.

Why similar: Agriculture 20.5% ★, Farming Sim 18.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Fishing 11.9% ★, Life Sim 11.4%

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.3%, Agriculture 16.6% ★, Life Sim 14.3%, Fishing 12.6% ★, Crafting 9.6%

Awaken as Robert, an adorable lost robot in a machine-ruled wasteland. Grow bizarre robo-crops like gears and lightbulbs, craft gadgets, upgrade yourself with teleportation powers, and explore ruined cities to uncover Earth's dark secrets. Cozy farming meets post-apoc adventure!

Why similar: Farming Sim 18.8%, Agriculture 16.6% ★, Fishing 14.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.2%

Take part in healing after the Great Calamity. Tend your farm, complete quests for the villagers, and explore dungeons filled with challenge and treasure in this cozy, solo-developed farming sim. Build a new life in a recovering world with your fluffy Spellbook Companion.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.4%, Agriculture 20.3% ★, Life Sim 13.8%, Fishing 10.8% ★, Crafting 10%

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Base Building 19%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 14.2%, Open World 10.7%, Female Protagonist 10.3%

Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.2%, Crafting 14.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 9.9%, Agriculture 9.5% ★

Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.9%, Agriculture 19.3% ★, Life Sim 12.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 7.7%

Show your mettle as both an aspiring organic farmer and a part-time adventurer. And then you might be in for a romantic happy ending.

Why similar: Farming Sim 46.1%, Agriculture 17.2% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Fishing 8.8% ★, Simulation 7.4%

Stardew Valley meets Paper Mario in the coziest farming RPG you've never played. Romance 34+ characters, befriend 50+, raise adorable animals, and grow crops using real soil science. No forced bedtime. A handcrafted 2.5D world full of charm, secrets, and the dream life you've been waiting for.

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.4%, Agriculture 18.1% ★, Life Sim 11.8%, Fishing 10.3% ★, Crafting 9.6%

Explore the wide world of Anthos with the help of your wacky inventor friend Doc Jr. and many others! It’ll be up to you to revive the Harvest Goddess and the Harvest Sprites, as well as reconnect all of the villages of Anthos with each other! Farm all around Anthos using the improved Expando-Farm!

Why similar: Farming Sim 35.2%, Life Sim 19.4%, Fishing 11.2% ★, RPG 9.2%, Simulation 7.2%

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Agriculture 19.5% ★, Fishing 19.1% ★, Crafting 18.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 9.9%

Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.4%, Agriculture 24.9% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Nature 9.4%, Open World 6%

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?

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.3%, Agriculture 17.4% ★, Life Sim 14.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Fishing 6.9% ★

Cultivate crops, care for animals, fish, mine resources, and explore diverse environments while growing the local community. Invite village residents to work with you and collaborate to meet city targets, helping you achieve goals more efficiently.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.7%, Agriculture 19.9% ★, Fishing 15.2% ★, Life Sim 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%

Find inner peace in a small, open-world game. On these carefully handcrafted islands, you can take a nap on a giant monster, feed baby dragons, take care of the fauna and flora... ...but demons from your past might come back to remind you what you want to forget.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.6%, Life Sim 16%, Crafting 12.9%, Nature 10.3%, Building 9.8%

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Farming Sim 36%, Life Sim 19.7%, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 9.2%, Exploration 6.9%