Games like Botanicula
If Botanicula is your kind of game, the closest matches are Samorost 3, Machinarium and CHUCHEL — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, peaceful and whimsical. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Botanicula is a 2012 point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design, available for $14.99 USD. The game centers on five small forest creatures navigating through a lush, hand-illustrated environment filled with interactive puzzles and environmental challenges. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and peaceful, with whimsical character designs and imaginative puzzle mechanics. The soundtrack has been highlighted by reviewers as relaxing and enchanting. Botanicula runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 95% positive rating from over 2,000 Steam reviews. The solo adventure emphasizes short, chill sessions suitable for casual play and family-friendly audiences.
About Botanicula: Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Players who liked Botanicula also play
Steam players who put hours into Botanicula also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Top pick for Botanicula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Second-strongest match for Botanicula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Botanicula.
Third-strongest match for Botanicula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Papetura
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Ranked #5 for Botanicula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Ranked #6 for Botanicula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Ranked #7 for Botanicula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
TOHU
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Ranked #8 for Botanicula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Botanicula
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Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Reviewers of Botanicula cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Reviewers of Botanicula cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Unmechanical
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Reviewers of Botanicula cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!
Gemini Rue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Reviewers of Botanicula cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Resonance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Reviewers of Botanicula cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Botanicula.
Reviewers of Botanicula cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Botanicula.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Botanicula.
Reviewers of Botanicula cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Botanicula.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Botanicula at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Botanicula.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Botanicula.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Botanicula.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Botanicula.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Botanicula.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Botanicula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Botanicula.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Botanicula.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Botanicula.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Botanicula.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Botanicula.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Amanita Design
Other recommendable Steam games by Amanita Design, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
Creaks
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Happy Game
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?
Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Phonopolis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Another title from Amanita Design, the studio behind Botanicula. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Phonopolis is a story-driven puzzle adventure set in a hand-painted 3D world made of cardboard. Solve a wide variety of playful puzzles and help Felix end the Leader's oppressive influence in a resonant dystopian city inspired by avant-garde art.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Samorost 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.
Machinarium
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
CHUCHEL
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a whimsical mood with Botanicula.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
CHUCHEL is a comedy adventure game from the creators of Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost. Join the hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel as they will be facing numerous puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry!
Papetura
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.
Samorost 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Samorost 2 tells a surreal story of a space gnome whose dog just got kidnapped by mischievous aliens. Set out on a short expedition to rescue the pup, deal with curious strangers and relax to the soothing music by Tomáš "Floex" Dvořák.
Pilgrims
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Pilgrims is a playful adventure game, created by the team behind Machinarium and Samorost. Roam the land as you please and make new friends, share a laugh with your fellow travelers and help them complete their little stories, your way. How many different solutions can you find?
TOHU
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Botanicula.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanicula.
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Frequently asked about Botanicula
- Is Botanicula verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Botanicula is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Botanicula cost?
- Botanicula is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Botanicula?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Botanicula are Samorost 3, Machinarium, CHUCHEL.
- Who developed Botanicula?
- Botanicula was developed by Amanita Design.
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