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Games like The Forest and Geometry Dash

Looking for games like both The Forest and Geometry Dash? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Both The Forest and Geometry Dash share Action, Indie roots, making the overlapping player base a strong signal for what to play next. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own The Forest and Geometry Dash also tend to own these — with content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, plus review-mined vibe embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when genre labels differ. No Steam login required.

The Forest — Steam game coverGeometry Dash — Steam game cover
Shared genres:ActionIndie

Best matches for fans of both games

Ranked by collaborative filtering, genre overlap, and review-mined vibes — the same signals that power imho.run.

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    Don't Starve Together — Steam game cover

    Don't Starve Together

    Top pick for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

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    Terraria — Steam game cover

    Terraria

    Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

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    Soundodger+ — Steam game cover

    Soundodger+

    Third pick for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Dodge the music and dance through a mesmerizing ballet of choreographed bullets, each synced to music from over a dozen international artists. Push your creativity and skills with the fully-featured Level Editor and never run out of things to dodge.

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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Ranked #4 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

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    The Impossible Game — Steam game cover

    The Impossible Game

    Ranked #5 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie with both games.

    The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an EXCLUSIVE new Level Editor.

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    Green Hell — Steam game cover

    Green Hell

    Ranked #6 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

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    Subnautica — Steam game cover

    Subnautica

    Ranked #7 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.

    Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

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    Grounded — Steam game cover

    Grounded

    Ranked #8 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

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    Rhythm Doctor — Steam game cover

    Rhythm Doctor

    Ranked #9 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    Save patients with your rhythm mastery! Rhythm Doctor is a rhythm game where you heal patients by defibrillating in time to their heartbeats. Learn each patient's unique heartbeat and defeat boss viruses trying to sabotage your rhythm, all set to heart-pumping, soul-soothing music.

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    Sons Of The Forest — Steam game cover

    Sons Of The Forest

    Ranked #10 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

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    Thumper — Steam game cover

    Thumper

    Ranked #11 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.

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    A Dance of Fire and Ice — Steam game cover

    A Dance of Fire and Ice

    Ranked #12 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie with both games.

    A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.

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    Tadpole Treble — Steam game cover

    Tadpole Treble

    Ranked #13 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Embark on a thrilling adventure through sheet music in Tadpole Treble! Escape predatory piranhas, flirtatious tadpoles and more as you make your way back home. Shoot for the top of the leaderboards, or create your own stages and music in Composition Mode!

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    Dying Light — Steam game cover

    Dying Light

    Ranked #14 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and RPG with both games.

    First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

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    No Man's Sky — Steam game cover

    No Man's Sky

    Ranked #15 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Ranked #16 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

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    Rust — Steam game cover

    Rust

    Ranked #17 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

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    Darkwood — Steam game cover

    Darkwood

    Ranked #18 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.

    Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

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    Pistol Whip — Steam game cover

    Pistol Whip

    Ranked #19 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Sports with both games.

    Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards. Includes mod support!

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    Don't Starve — Steam game cover

    Don't Starve

    Ranked #20 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie and Adventure with both games.

    Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

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    PolyZ — Steam game cover

    PolyZ

    Ranked #21 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.

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    Project Zomboid — Steam game cover

    Project Zomboid

    Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie and Simulation with both games.

    Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

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    The Highrise — Steam game cover

    The Highrise

    Ranked #23 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.

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    Valheim — Steam game cover

    Valheim

    Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.

    A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

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