Games like Rock and Roots
If Rock and Roots is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Giant Problem, Conquest and Caelum's Crux — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Rock and Roots: Rock and Roots is a captivating VR journey where you wield the power to dictate the ebb and flow of battle. Summon your enigmatic guardians of the woods with a magical hand to face the challenges. Conjure spells, dive into the magic world and reclaim your rightful place on the throne!

Players who liked Rock and Roots also play
Steam players who put hours into Rock and Roots 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.
A Giant Problem
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rock and Roots.
Smash, bash and mash away your enemies as a giant set on defending a village under siege. Command troops, sling magic, rebuild your defenses - anything you can get your hands on could be a weapon!
Conquest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rock and Roots.
Go from alone in the forest, to leading your army to victory! Choose your weapons and level up to unlock new skills, kill enemies to earn loot and gold, and construct a village to raise an army. The open world is full of enemies and villages, all of which are ready for combat.
Caelum's Crux
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
A new card based action adventure RPG game set in the world of Caelum. Embark into a mysterious journey full of secrets and collect powerful cards to solve the riddles of this epic land and battle with other collectors!
Mage Mayhem
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rock and Roots.
Mage Mayhem is a roguelike featuring unique magic with hundreds of different styles to explore. Customize your experience through a variety of abilities and upgrades. Enjoy alongside your friends, then battle them in various other PvP game modes.
Tower Defender VR: Last Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rock and Roots.
Tower Defender is a strategy TD game with roguelike gameplay. Brave knight, draw the sword to defeat the dragon boss, and restore world peace!
Cruo Domine
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rock and Roots.
Survive in a hostile space environment with randomized damage, drop and enemy strength. Adjust difficulty yourself dynamically with upgrading weapons, but be careful not always the upgrade succeeds.
Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Rock and Roots.
Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown is a role playing adventure that brings tabletop gaming to life in virtual reality! Also includes a new non-VR mode for players without VR hardware. Join a band of scoundrels in this unique sea-faring tabletop RPG adventure!
Police Response VR : Disturbance
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rock and Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Rock and Roots.
Experience an original cartoon reality. Quick Reactions based SIM. Have you got the weapon drawing skills to cope in pressure situations? Set at 1 Disturbance address. Toughest Police SIM Game you'll play!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rock and Roots at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rock and Roots.
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 Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rock and Roots.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rock and Roots.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rock and Roots.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rock and Roots.
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 Rock and Roots on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rock and Roots.
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...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rock and Roots.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Rock and Roots.
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 Rock and Roots.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Rock and Roots.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rock and Roots.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rock and Roots.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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More from XOCUS
Other recommendable Steam games by XOCUS, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fighting Clans
WHY THIS
Another title from XOCUS, the studio behind Rock and Roots. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
A true, FIRST VR Street Fight! You’re just a regular guy, doing your best to get by, but you made your choices and now you’re in debt to the mafia. The only way you are going to save yourself is to fight. Prepare to engage in combat with no limits, no rules. You fight to win, you win to survive.
Z-Race
WHY THIS
Another title from XOCUS, the studio behind Rock and Roots. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
Z-Race is a fun arcade hand-racing VR game. Control futuristic ships designed in the style of your favourite VR creators with their voice acting. Fly at super-fast speeds on chic sci-fi tracks, collecting nitro boosts and coins, avoiding energy traps and obstacles to become the first!
Omega Pilot
WHY THIS
Another title from XOCUS, the studio behind Rock and Roots. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
Omega Pilot is an exciting first-person VR racing game with realistic physics and control mechanics. Compete for in-ring races with other pilots in asynchronous multiplayer and enjoy the view from the cockpit at high speed!
Presentiment of Death
WHY THIS
Another title from XOCUS, the studio behind Rock and Roots. Shares Action and Indie with Rock and Roots.
Do you hear that? Sounds of classical music and an arrow rushing by. Burst your way through the enemies inhabiting on different game levels and come out a winner. Remember, all in your hands — a bow and a chance to survive...
EXOcars
WHY THIS
Another title from XOCUS, the studio behind Rock and Roots. Shares Action with Rock and Roots.
Strap into EXOcars and compete against real players in single-player races and real-time multiplayer. Exciting driving feedback, advanced physics and graphics make for an unparalleled VR buggy racing experience.
Frequently asked about Rock and Roots
- How much does Rock and Roots cost?
- Rock and Roots is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rock and Roots?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rock and Roots are A Giant Problem, Conquest, Caelum's Crux.
- Who developed Rock and Roots?
- Rock and Roots was developed by XOCUS.
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 Rock and Roots.
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