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.


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
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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Valheim
Second pick for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Soundodger+
Ranked #4 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
Ranked #5 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
Ranked #6 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
Ranked #7 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
Ranked #8 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
Ranked #9 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
Ranked #10 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
Ranked #11 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
Ranked #12 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
Ranked #13 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
Ranked #14 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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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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Dying Light
Ranked #16 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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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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Factorio
Ranked #18 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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Darkwood
Ranked #19 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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PolyZ
Ranked #20 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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The Highrise
Ranked #21 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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Beat Saber
Ranked #22 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Indie with both games.
Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you, surrounded by a futuristic world.
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Project Zomboid
Ranked #23 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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AfterBeat (Project Arrhythmia)
Ranked #24 for fans of both The Forest and Geometry Dash. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
A musical bullet-hell where all things beautiful are deadly. Dodge well little nanobot, you don't have much time.