Games like Botanica
If Botanica is your kind of game, the closest matches are PARRYMAN, Dream Doctor and Ocean Planet — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its charming boss fights, charming botanical art style and cutesy art style. 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 Botanica: Botanica is a hand drawn 2D side scrolling platform-adventure in a world of sentient plants. By learning and borrowing abilities from the enemies and bosses of this world you might just be able to defeat the scourge that threatens all of plant life.
Players who liked Botanica also play
Steam players who put hours into Botanica 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.
PARRYMAN
WHY THIS
Top pick for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
'Parryman' is a hardcore action game where you fight using only the counterattack skill of parrying. Put your parrying skills to the test with 'Parryman'.
Dream Doctor
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Dream Doctor is a platformer BOSS RUSH where you take on the role of a "psychologist", capable of entering your patients' dreams to confront their worst nightmares through brute force.
Ocean Planet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Button and Drop Bear live rent-free above their friend's steam bun shop. When their friend goes missing, it's up to them to figure out what happened and bring them home.
Hoa
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a cozy mood with Botanica.
Ranked #4 for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Botanica.
Hoa is a beautiful puzzle-platforming game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.
Clan O'Conall and the Crown of the Stag
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Botanica.
Ranked #5 for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Master the powers of three Celtic Heroes in this hand-drawn action platformer! Solve challenging puzzles, slay unworldly demons, and cross beautiful landscapes by swapping instantly between characters. With an all-original Celtic soundtrack. You've never heard of it, so it must be mythical!
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Shares boss rush and collectible hunting with Botanica.
Ranked #6 for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares platforming and combat with Botanica.
Ranked #7 for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Nocturnal
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights with Botanica.
Ranked #8 for Botanica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Botanica.
Carve your way with fire and steel to find out what secrets lie beyond the Mist in this intense 2-hour-long action-platformer game. Get ready to wield the flames and burn everything!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Botanica at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Botanica.
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 ~50% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Action with Botanica.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Botanica.
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 ~50% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Botanica.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
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 ~70% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Botanica on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Botanica.
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 Action and Adventure with Botanica.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Botanica.
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 Botanica.
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 Botanica.
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 Action and Indie with Botanica.
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 Botanica.
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.
Hoa
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and a cozy mood with Botanica.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Botanica.
Hoa is a beautiful puzzle-platforming game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Shares boss rush and collectible hunting with Botanica.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Shares platforming and combat with Botanica.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Botanica.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Nocturnal
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights with Botanica.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Botanica.
Carve your way with fire and steel to find out what secrets lie beyond the Mist in this intense 2-hour-long action-platformer game. Get ready to wield the flames and burn everything!
Frequently asked about Botanica
- How much does Botanica cost?
- Botanica is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Botanica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Botanica are PARRYMAN, Dream Doctor, Ocean Planet.
- Who developed Botanica?
- Botanica was developed by Second Fiddle Studio and published by Second Fiddle Studio, Paras Games.
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