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Petal Cat Games · 2025 · 94 % positive of 201

24 games that play like Research Story and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Cattails: Wildwood Story, Alchemy Story and Ova Magica.

Player tags

  • Early Access
  • Farming Sim
  • Life Sim
  • Simulation
  • Agriculture
  • RPG
  • Creature Collector
  • Building

At a glance

What games like Research Story have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Research Story: Farming Sim (23 of 24), Simulation (22) and Life Sim (15).
  • They came out between 2017 and 2026, 3 of them after Research Story (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Fields of Mistria (97 % positive of 19,958).
  • 6 games both play and look like Research Story, among them Cattails: Wildwood Story, Pawsome Resort and Fields of Mistria.

By gameplay

Plays like Research Story

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Everdream Valley72 % positive of 818Shared: Farming Sim · Life Sim · Simulation
  2. Gleaner Heights73 % positive of 372Shared: Farming Sim · Life Sim · Simulation
  3. Orange Season62 % positive of 394Shared: Farming Sim · Simulation · Agriculture
  4. STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town83 % positive of 1,336Shared: Farming Sim · Life Sim · Simulation
  5. Harvest Life50 % positive of 267Shared: Farming Sim · Simulation · Agriculture
  6. Garden Paws90 % positive of 2,450Shared: Farming Sim · Simulation · Agriculture
  7. Monster Harvest52 % positive of 506Shared: Farming Sim · Agriculture · RPG
  8. Kynseed82 % positive of 3,241Shared: Farming Sim · Life Sim · Simulation
  9. Peaceful Days85 % positive of 198Shared: Farming Sim · Simulation · Agriculture
  10. Song Of The Prairie79 % positive of 1,434Shared: Farming Sim · Life Sim · Simulation
  11. Deiland: Pocket Planet68 % positive of 207Shared: Farming Sim · Simulation · Agriculture
  12. Little Witch in the Woods89 % positive of 8,142Shared: Farming Sim · Life Sim · Simulation

By look

Looks like Research Story

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Warm Village 暖暖村物语65 % positive of 403
  2. Gleaner Heights73 % positive of 372
  3. Cattails: Wildwood Story97 % positive of 1,538
  4. Pawsome Resort82 % positive of 175
  5. Fields of Mistria97 % positive of 19,958
  6. dotAGE95 % positive of 2,371
  7. stein.world66 % positive of 854
  8. Travellers Rest88 % positive of 13,900
  9. Stardew Valley98 % positive of 886,195
  10. Miniland Adventure74 % positive of 302
  11. Tinkerlands85 % positive of 1,240
  12. Kynseed82 % positive of 3,241

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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