Games like Distant Garden

If Distant Garden left you wanting something atmospheric and surreal, you have options. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Cloud Gardens
A quiet puzzle toy about letting nature win. Plant seeds in little scenes of urban decay, scatter junk around them so the greenery spreads, and watch a rusted ruin turn into an overgrown garden. No timers, no failure, just the slow pleasure of making something beautiful out of what people left behind.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Relaxing
95% of 2,104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99
Lucid Blocks
A voxel survival sandbox where the world runs on dream logic. Explore an endless expanse of plastic cities, grassy voids and abandoned warehouses, fight manikins and colossal spiders, and crack an unrestricted crafting system that hides its recipes. Weird, atmospheric, sometimes scary, and unlike anything else you have built in.
Also in Survival crafting · Atmospheric, Surreal, Relaxing
93% of 4,946 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 107$6.99
Dream Garden
An easygoing simulation game about creating tiny, Japanese inspired garden dioramas. Use a wide selection of plants, decorations and tools to build and nurture the zen garden retreat of your dreams.
Atmospheric, Relaxing, Colorful
81% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Garden of the Sea
A chilled-out life sim where you play, craft, and explore across magical islands. Build a house, grow a garden, nurture animals, adventure across the surrounding ocean, and make yourself at home!
Also in Farming · Atmospheric, Relaxing, Colorful
97% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Distant Bloom
From a world in ruins to a world in bloom. This serene management game lets you explore an alien planet where things have gone amiss. Harness the power of plants to restore the environment and build a flourishing community with your crewmates.
Also in Farming · Atmospheric, Relaxing, Colorful
72% of 247 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Tiny Glade
A tiny diorama builder with no rules and no rush. Doodle a castle wall and the game lays every brick for you, ivy climbs where it pleases, and sheep waddle through your paths. No management, no combat, no wrong answers: just you, a forgotten meadow, and something pretty to make.
Atmospheric, Relaxing, Replayable
97% of 23,100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 219$14.99
The Faraway Land
The Faraway Land is an open world survival simulator. Plunge into the relaxing atmosphere of a magical world filled with cute and dangerous creatures.
Also in Survival crafting and Farming · Atmospheric, Relaxing, Retro
81% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Garden Path
A slice-of-life sim about the joy of gardening, designed to be picked up and played in short and sweet bites. Whether you’re fishing, growing, trading, or making new vegetable friends, a wonderful and wistful adventure awaits when wandering The Garden Path.
Also in Co-op · Atmospheric, Relaxing, Colorful
70% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Rising World
A voxel sandbox with a fully destructible, procedurally generated world. Start with basic tools, dig, craft and build anything from a hut to a whole city, at your own pace. Playable solo or with friends, with seasons, tameable animals, boats and surprisingly good weather.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Atmospheric, Relaxing, Replayable
85% of 5,347 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 102$14.99
Wildmender
A desert gardening survival game where you start with a tiny spring and turn a dead world green. Dig canals, grow strange plants, explore dunes and ruins, and fight the wraiths draining the land. Play solo or with up to three friends, at whatever pace suits you.
Also in Survival crafting and Farming · Atmospheric, Relaxing, Replayable
85% of 1,812 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$8.49
Garden Galaxy
Drop coins in the pot, get a random item, place it somewhere lovely, repeat. Garden Galaxy is a cozy idle sandbox where chance hands you the pieces and you arrange them into a garden that could only come from you. Leave it running in the background, come back to visitors and coins, and keep building.
Atmospheric, Relaxing, Replayable
97% of 2,499 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$9.99
Garden Simulator
PLANT - DESIGN - HARVEST - With Garden Simulator you’ll get your own allotment, place deco elements and cultivate plants to harvest and sell them. Get ready for a beautiful time in nature. Always remember: A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.
Atmospheric, Relaxing, Colorful
81% of 361 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Hidden gems like Distant Garden

ShantyTown

Stack cramped towns out of buildings, lights and odd little decorations, one hand-drawn tile at a time.

$14.99

Farlands

Clear the weeds, plant your first crops and fish quiet ponds on a little world of your own, with trips to nearby planets for what you need.

$17.99

Doloc Town

A side-scrolling pixel-art farm sim in the wasteland. Build your farm upwards on platforms, turn acid rain and lightning into tools, automate…

$15.99

Elsewhere

Craft, build and automate your way through a bright open world full of magic, quests and secrets, alone or with friends.

$15.99

Lucid Blocks

Gather, craft and build your way through plastic cities and grassy voids, where recipes stay hidden and the night is not always kind.

$6.99

Lay of the Land

Mine, build and fight on an island where fire, water and physics reshape everything, alone or with friends.

$13.99

Dystopika

Stack neon towers and giant holograms into a cyberpunk skyline with no goals to chase, then sit back and watch it shine.

$6.99

Tiny Garden

Tiny Garden lets you grow a pocket-sized garden inside a magical toy passed down through generations.

$12.99

Garden Galaxy

Drop coins, place whatever appears, and let a colorful little world grow at its own pace.

$9.99

Wildmender

Bring a dried-up world back to life, one canal and one strange plant at a time, alone or with friends.

$8.49

Outpath: First Journey

Gather resources, build and automate a base, and buy new islands to expand across, all at your own pace.

Free

Garden of the Sea (VR)

You wake up on a small island in a magical world. Grow your garden, nurture local creatures, furnish your home or adventure across the seas to…

$9.99

Newest games like Distant Garden

Runika: A World of Little Legends

Farm, craft and explore a terraformable 2D world while a mystery stirs in the Rift.

$11.69

Elsewhere

Craft, build and automate your way through a bright open world full of magic, quests and secrets, alone or with friends.

$15.99

Garden Ink

Paint, combine and discover! Garden Ink is a cozy sandbox game. Combine decorations and use painting tools to customize your world.

$9.50

Doloc Town

A side-scrolling pixel-art farm sim in the wasteland. Build your farm upwards on platforms, turn acid rain and lightning into tools, automate…

$15.99

Wonderia

Survive, farm, build and morph on a procedurally generated alien planet, solo or with up to seven friends.

$13.99

Farlands

Clear the weeds, plant your first crops and fish quiet ponds on a little world of your own, with trips to nearby planets for what you need.

$17.99

Dreamcore: Rabbit Hole

Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.

$4.19

ShantyTown

Stack cramped towns out of buildings, lights and odd little decorations, one hand-drawn tile at a time.

$14.99

Lay of the Land

Mine, build and fight on an island where fire, water and physics reshape everything, alone or with friends.

$13.99

Lucid Blocks

Gather, craft and build your way through plastic cities and grassy voids, where recipes stay hidden and the night is not always kind.

$6.99

Everdream Village

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…

$19.99

Dream Garden

An easygoing simulation game about creating tiny, Japanese inspired garden dioramas.

$7.99