Games like Roots Devour
If Roots Devour is your kind of game, the closest matches are Memories Loaming, SOMA and WAGON — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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 Roots Devour: Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Players who liked Roots Devour also play
Steam players who put hours into Roots Devour 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.
Memories Loaming
WHY THIS
Top pick for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
A horror anthology about people working along a remote highway in Labrador, Canada. Try to remain balanced and lucid at your normal job. Also, there's a bear.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Roots Devour.
Second-strongest match for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
WAGON
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression, exploration, horror and an atmospheric mood with Roots Devour.
Third-strongest match for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
WAGON is a 1-bit card game where you make tough decisions to try and survive winter on the Oregon Trail.
Death Trials (Director's Cut)
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Roots Devour.
An action horror game about scientific trials gone wrong! Run and hide or FIGHT your way to escape. Plenty of jump-scares and perfect for streaming!
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Roots Devour.
Ranked #5 for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Roots Devour.
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.
Dark ill 暗黑蛊国
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
This card adventure game combines elements of darkness, card and roguelike. Upgrading the cards will bring random attributes, creating various and unique adventure experiences. Design your custom card sets to defeat the decaying monsters, face the darkness and break the curse!
Menace from the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, build variety, horror and an atmospheric mood with Roots Devour.
Ranked #7 for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.
Evil Nightmares
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Roots Devour fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
The Bell is ringing and there is no escape. The world is quickly shrouded in darkness and horrifying creatures lurk for Marv. He must face his fears and find a way out of this nightmare or he will be trapped in hellfire forever.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Roots Devour.
Reviewers of Roots Devour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
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!
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Roots Devour.
Reviewers of Roots Devour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Roots Devour.
Reviewers of Roots Devour cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
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...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Roots Devour at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roots Devour.
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 ~63% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roots Devour.
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 ~41% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Roots Devour.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Roots Devour.
Priced ~54% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
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
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Roots Devour.
Priced ~41% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
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 ~63% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
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 ~63% under Roots Devour on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roots Devour.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 with Roots Devour.
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 Roots Devour.
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 Roots Devour.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
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 with Roots Devour.
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 Roots Devour.
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 Roots Devour.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Roots Devour
- Does Roots Devour run on Steam Deck?
- Roots Devour is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Roots Devour cost?
- Roots Devour is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Roots Devour?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Roots Devour are Memories Loaming, SOMA, WAGON.
- Who developed Roots Devour?
- Roots Devour was developed by Rewinding Games and published by GCORES PUBLISHING.
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