Games like Taking Root
If Taking Root is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grow On The Go, Happy Puppy and Ant Farm Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and peaceful. 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 Taking Root: Taking Root is a cosy game about caring for houseplants and watching them thrive. Care for your houseplants in real time in this realistic simulation game and create your own urban jungle.
Players who liked Taking Root also play
Steam players who put hours into Taking Root 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.
Grow On The Go
WHY THIS
Top pick for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
Care for your leafy friends in this cosy plant care sim and explore new locations from the comfort of your store window. Design your dream workshop and find the best companions for each of your pals.
Happy Puppy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Taking Root.
Manage your own cozy garden! Care for playful puppies, clean up, and plant vibrant crops. Provide them with toys and watch their happiness grow. Decorate and expand your space to build your dream garden filled with Happy Puppies!
Ant Farm Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
Ant farm (formicarium) with a colony of ants. Ants have artificial intelligence that mimics the full life cycle, behavior, nature and physics of real insects.
Cozy Space
WHY THIS
Shares casual and a chill mood with Taking Root.
Ranked #4 for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Taking Root.
"Cozy Space" is a relaxing home decoration game with true-to-life models and rooms. Enjoy a leisurely gaming experience and easily create cozy spaces. It cleverly blends music elements, allowing you to be a composer, interior designer, or simply relax without specific tasks!
My Little Life
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, resource management, casual and a peaceful mood with Taking Root.
Ranked #5 for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
Tree Bonsai
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Taking Root.
Ranked #6 for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
An artistic bonsai tree simulation game that follows the life cycle of a plum tree. You can cut branches, add nutrients, and graft while the seasons pass and your tree grows. You can finally fulfill your dreams of a digital bonsai.
Farmtale
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a chill mood with Taking Root.
Ranked #7 for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
Build your farm from one chicken and explore the world as you progress. Buy animals, harvest crops, hire workers for management, and advance through unique buildings, quests, upgrades, and items in the ultimate idle clicker hybrid!
How to Train Your Cock
WHY THIS
Shares idle progression, resource management and casual with Taking Root.
Ranked #8 for Taking Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
A chill idle game that sits in your screen while you do other tasks. Watch your cock train and grow, decorate his island, and buy him some stylish hats. Is your cock the biggest among your friends? Now it can be!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Taking Root at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
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 ~58% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Taking Root.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Taking Root.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
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 ~58% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Taking Root.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Taking Root.
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 ~75% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Taking Root on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Taking Root.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 Taking Root.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
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?
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 Simulation with Taking Root.
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 with Taking Root.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Taking Root.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Taking Root.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Taking Root
- How much does Taking Root cost?
- Taking Root is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Taking Root?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Taking Root are Grow On The Go, Happy Puppy, Ant Farm Simulator.
- Who developed Taking Root?
- Taking Root was developed by hacktic.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Taking Root.
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