Games like Botanical Chronicle
If Botanical Chronicle is your kind of game, the closest matches are FINIS, The Crisis Zone and Shelter 2 — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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FINIS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
FINIS is a puzzle game with a difference, we create a psychological evaluation based on your choices. Each universe offers a different experience, terror, calm, destruction, war, progress... You can choose between 8 completely different paths and each path will take you to a unique ending.
The Crisis Zone
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
The Crisis Zone is a sci-fi exploration game with elements of horror in a dramatic atmosphere. Explore this open world and find information about how you got here and how you can escape from this quarantine zone. Avoid the monsters and security drones patrolling the territory
Shelter 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.
The House
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
The House is a single player horror and thriller game. As a journalist, you are trapped in a house where the paranormal is on the rise. It's up to you to find photos, notes and tapes and escape the house to survive!
LOST EMBER
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
Master the gibbon’s art of movement with a unique moveset that lets you swing, slide and somersault through a lush jungle canopy, and experience a free-flowing story of family and survival as you search for a home that may be lost forever.
Herdling
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
Guide a herd of mysterious creatures on a stirring and beautiful journey into the mountains… and beyond.
Tree Simulator 2023
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Botanical Chronicle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
It's exactly what it sounds like! Have you ever wanted to be a tree? Do you like odd numbers? How about multiplayer, weather, seasons and more!? Well then this is the game for you! Come on down to a place where you will never want to leaf. Relax and be the best tree you can be. 1-250 players.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Botanical Chronicle at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
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 ~50% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Botanical Chronicle.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Botanical Chronicle.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Botanical Chronicle.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Botanical Chronicle.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Botanical Chronicle on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Botanical Chronicle.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 Botanical Chronicle.
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 Botanical Chronicle.
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 Botanical Chronicle.
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 Botanical Chronicle.
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 Botanical Chronicle.
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 Botanical Chronicle.
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 Botanical Chronicle.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Botanical Chronicle.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shelter 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.
LOST EMBER
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
Master the gibbon’s art of movement with a unique moveset that lets you swing, slide and somersault through a lush jungle canopy, and experience a free-flowing story of family and survival as you search for a home that may be lost forever.
Tree Simulator 2023
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Botanical Chronicle.
It's exactly what it sounds like! Have you ever wanted to be a tree? Do you like odd numbers? How about multiplayer, weather, seasons and more!? Well then this is the game for you! Come on down to a place where you will never want to leaf. Relax and be the best tree you can be. 1-250 players.
Frequently asked about Botanical Chronicle
- How much does Botanical Chronicle cost?
- Botanical Chronicle is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Botanical Chronicle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Botanical Chronicle are FINIS, The Crisis Zone, Shelter 2.
- Who developed Botanical Chronicle?
- Botanical Chronicle was developed by Metapolis Games.
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