Games like Lost in the Roots
If Lost in the Roots is your kind of game, the closest matches are Viy: Retold Story, Your Computer Might Be At Risk and 逆光迷途 Lost in Darklight — 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 Lost in the Roots: A 2D adventure with psychological thriller elements exploring guilt and fear. A young girl wakes in a stranger's attic, lost in the middle of nowhere. Who took her—and why? With no way out and something lurking in the shadows, escape may be just an illusion.
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Viy: Retold Story
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Top pick for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
the game in the quest genre is based on the Gogol's story 'Vij'.
Your Computer Might Be At Risk
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Second-strongest match for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
Your Computer Might Be At Risk is a first-person narrative puzzle game. Locked up in a room after a mysterious car accident, you must figure out how to escape while surviving dangerous trials.
逆光迷途 Lost in Darklight
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
Themed on urban suspense, Lost in Darklight is a live action interactive game. A retired ace soldier, four girls, a hidden chamber at home, genetic cloning tech... Experience interactive VR panoramic evidence searching with this game and decide your own ending. Every choice you make is crucial!
CLeM
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Ranked #4 for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist. Wake up in a world where puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a unique narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It gives you purpose. To guide you, you find a notebook with mysterious entries and a house to explore.
The Dark Side of the Moon: An Interactive FMV Thriller
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Ranked #5 for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
When his 2 young children vanish mysteriously throughout the night, it's up to single-dad Dean Hamilton to do what any good dad would do: Go to the end of the universe and bring them back home in this thrilling FMV/Interactive Movie.
Attentat 1942
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Ranked #6 for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
Boxville
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Ranked #7 for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.
Once Alive
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Ranked #8 for Lost in the Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the Roots.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lost in the 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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Trioskaz, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
No, I'm not a Human
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Another title from Trioskaz, the studio behind Lost in the Roots. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Violent Horror Stories: anthology
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Another title from Trioskaz, the studio behind Lost in the Roots. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
4 short horror games from different authors and in different genres. Each game is an author's vision on the theme of 'pursuit'.
Violent Horror Stories 2
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Another title from Trioskaz, the studio behind Lost in the Roots. Shares Indie with Lost in the Roots.
A brand‑new bundle from the creators of the short‑form horror hit Violent Horror Stories. This time the collection revolves around one chilling theme: confinement.
Frequently asked about Lost in the Roots
- What games are most similar to Lost in the Roots?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lost in the Roots are Viy: Retold Story, Your Computer Might Be At Risk, 逆光迷途 Lost in Darklight.
- Who developed Lost in the Roots?
- Lost in the Roots was developed by Trioskaz and published by Trioskaz, Spaghetti Cat.
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 Lost in the Roots.
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