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Games like Urban Forest

If Urban Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdom of Cards and Tiles, Faryloopa and Escape Gaia — 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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About Urban Forest: Urban Forest is a city building deckbuilder. Use different cards to build up your city to gain support to win the mayor election.

StrategyIndieWindows · macOS · Linuxby Sprouting Potato
Urban Forest — Steam game cover

Players who liked Urban Forest also play

Steam players who put hours into Urban Forest 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.

  1. Kingdom of Cards and Tiles

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    A combination of classic board games such as Carcassonne and Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure. Explore, build a deck of cards, and construct a medieval village from drawn tiles. Unlock new cards, mechanics, and magical artifacts that influence gameplay.

    2025StrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Faryloopa

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    Build the board. Play the cards. Roll the dice. Faryloopa is a roguelike deckbuilder meets boardbuilder where every run is a new layout, new synergies, and bigger scores to chase.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Escape Gaia

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    you will play as Gaia, the shattered will of a planet, and command your spaceship to explore new worlds, collect and refine various resources, build a home on the damaged spacecraft, summon a wide range of monsters, and ultimately, devour other shattered wills to repair yourself.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Concrete Jungle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    A city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.

    2015StrategyIndie3.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dawnmaker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Urban Forest.

    Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!

    2024Strategy9.89 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Last Resort Island

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    As a castaway you strand on a remote island. And that's just the beginning of a survival adventure with a big helping of goofy slapstick fun! Build your own paradise resort and keep an eye on those ex tofu lovers who have a habit of working up the wrong kind of appetite...

    2018StrategyIndieCasual8.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Vertical Kingdom

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally reaching for the sky with each city. Lead expeditions to gather resources, construct metropolises, and build ever upwards!

    2024StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Technotopia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Urban Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!

    2024StrategyIndieCasual1.69 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Urban Forest.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Sprouting Potato

Other recommendable Steam games by Sprouting Potato, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Crop Rotation

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Sprouting Potato, the studio behind Urban Forest. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    Crop Rotation is a farming-theme card drafting game. Cards are played automatically so you can focus on the deck building and building synergies.

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Dice Tribes: Ambitions

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Sprouting Potato, the studio behind Urban Forest. Shares Strategy and Indie with Urban Forest.

    A dice-based worker placement game. Manage the randomness and complete your ambition to win.

    2022StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Curse of the Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Sprouting Potato, the studio behind Urban Forest. Shares Strategy with Urban Forest.

    Curse of the Abyss is a Traditional Roguelike with a twist. Manage your resources and explore the abyss and slay the various Guardians of the Abyss and remove the curses.

    StrategySteam ↗

Frequently asked about Urban Forest

What games are most similar to Urban Forest?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Urban Forest are Kingdom of Cards and Tiles, Faryloopa, Escape Gaia.
Who developed Urban Forest?
Urban Forest was developed by Sprouting Potato.

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 Urban Forest.

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