Games like Grow Home
Closest overall match: Proteus (★ 3.0). Highest rated: OneShot at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: Proteus at about 1 hours.
We compared Grow Home against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Great Soundtrack, Exploration and Full controller support. Updated Oct 15, 2026.
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65%
1. Proteus
Shares Short, Cute, Exploration, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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64%
2. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Shares Exploration, Open World, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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58%
3. Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Shares Exploration, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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58%
4. Never Alone
Shares Short, Cute, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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58%
5. A Story About My Uncle
Shares 3D Platformer, Parkour, Short, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags; rated 0.3 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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56%
6. Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Shares Controller, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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56%
7. OneShot
Shares Cute, Exploration, Great Soundtrack, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 0.8 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 90%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
-
55%
8. Dear Esther
Shares Short, Exploration, Open World, Great Soundtrack and Steam Cloud and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
-
55%
9. The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Shares Exploration, Great Soundtrack, steam-trading-cards, Steam Cloud and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
-
55%
10. DISTRAINT
Shares steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
-
54%
11. Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Shares 3D Platformer, Short, Controller, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 4 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 72%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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54%
12. Snake Pass
Shares 3D Platformer, Cute, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 30%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Grow Home?
On our similarity model, Proteus is the closest match to Grow Home — shares Short, Cute, Exploration, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 lower; released within 1 year.
Which game like Grow Home is rated highest?
OneShot holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 192 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Grow Home on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.