Games like Forestrike
If Forestrike is your kind of game, the closest matches are Animation VERSUS, CHOPSTICKS: Stick Figure Fighting and Flame Up — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 →About Forestrike: Forestrike is a martial arts roguelite where every death brings you closer to winning the fight before it begins. Use your ‘Foresight’ ability to experiment without consequences before fighting for real until earning the ultimate reward - victory without ‘Foresight’.
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Animation VERSUS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Animation VERSUS is an action-fighting game based on Animator vs. Animation, the hit YouTube series. Play locally with friends, test your skills in Online VS, and explore the world of Internet Space in a single-player or co-op Story Mode - plus a challenging Roguelite gauntlet!
CHOPSTICKS: Stick Figure Fighting
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
CHOPSTICKS is a stick figure fighting game set across the globe. With just one attack button and a focus on parrying, strategy is key. Each map opens up unique gameplay opportunities with map specific elements: from giant lasers to sticks that can be used as swords!
Flame Up
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Flame Up is a simplistic fighting game with no jumping, no blocking, no health, and no fuss, only you and your neutral. Featuring easy to learn systems, intuitive controls, and ROLLBACK NETCODE.
生命火热 / Desperate 1
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, skill tree progression and an epic mood with Forestrike.
Ranked #4 for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
The first work of the "Desperate" series - After Sunset, it’s a horizontal 2D action game with hand-painted, and using a new keyboard operation, you can feel a more intuitive combat experience in this game. Fight for the thing you loved in your life in every street you pass by！
Generic Fighter Maybe
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A classic arcade-style 2D Fighting Game, wrapped up in a goofy, full-of-energy, stylized presentation that mixes great animation and zany battle moves with simplistic doodles!
Impound Rumble
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Impound Rumble is an upcoming indie platform fighter bursting with personality! Rumble online with rollback or offline in a co-op story mode or duke it out PvP-style. Pop-off and go crazy with Turbo Mode and send friends and foes flying through stages that adapt to the chaos you create!
Forest Fighters
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Pure old-school arcade puzzle-battle with strategic depth. Build megablocks, trigger chains to send junk flying in the other camp. Counter incoming attacks through careful timing. 23 characters, each playing uniquely. No pay-to-win.
Breakdown: Silent Riot
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Forestrike fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A brutal, narrative-driven beat ’em up set in a dark Eastern European city. Hunted by the mafia, you fight to survive through precise, close-quarters combat with no easy wins, while something inside you begins to break and violence turns into obsession.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Forestrike
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SONOKUNI
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Forestrike.
Reviewers of Forestrike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Forestrike.
Battle your way through a biopunk and Japanese mythology-inspired landscape filled with over-the-top, hip hop-infused 2D action. A single hit means death, but use your time-bending skills to take down your oppressors and you might yet save your dying nation.
Shogun Showdown
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Forestrike.
Reviewers of Forestrike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forestrike.
Reviewers of Forestrike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and a challenging mood with Forestrike.
Reviewers of Forestrike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Forestrike.
Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.
Midnight Fight Express
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Forestrike.
Reviewers of Forestrike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A former member of the criminal underworld is lured back into “the life” by a mysterious drone claiming they have until sunrise to prevent a citywide criminal takeover together.
Sifu
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Forestrike.
Reviewers of Forestrike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Sifu is a realistic third-person brawler with tight Kung Fu combat mechanics and cinematic martial arts action embarking you on a path for revenge.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Forestrike.
Reviewers of Forestrike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Forestrike at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
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 ~50% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Action with Forestrike.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
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 ~50% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Forestrike on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Forestrike.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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More from Skeleton Crew Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Skeleton Crew Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Olija
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Forestrike.
Another title from Skeleton Crew Studio, the studio behind Forestrike. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
Olija is a game about Faraday's quest, a man shipwrecked then trapped in the mysterious country of Terraphage. Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands.
NINJA SLAYER NEO-SAITAMA IN FLAMES(ニンジャスレイヤー ネオサイタマ炎上)
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, boss fights, action adventure and an atmospheric mood with Forestrike.
Another title from Skeleton Crew Studio, the studio behind Forestrike. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
A fast-paced action platformer based on the world of Ninja Slayer, a hit manga that sold 4.44 million copies! In the fictional cyberpunk city of Neo-Saitama, take control of Ninja Slayer as he does battle with numerous evil ninjas, all to avenge the death of his wife and child.
BackSlash
WHY THIS
Another title from Skeleton Crew Studio, the studio behind Forestrike. Shares Action and Indie with Forestrike.
BackSlash is a spell casting brawler featuring style-mixing, arena destruction, and accelerating duels. Combine two styles to plunge into a dance of destruction through flying blades, bone breaking punches and devastating spells.
Frequently asked about Forestrike
- Is Forestrike verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Forestrike 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 Forestrike cost?
- Forestrike is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Forestrike?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Forestrike are Animation VERSUS, CHOPSTICKS: Stick Figure Fighting, Flame Up.
- Who developed Forestrike?
- Forestrike was developed by Skeleton Crew Studio, Thomas Olsson and published by Devolver Digital.
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