Games like Road Not Taken
If Road Not Taken is your kind of game, the closest matches are Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, Invisible, Inc. and Tangledeep — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. 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 Road Not Taken: Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way.
Players who liked Road Not Taken also play
Steam players who put hours into Road Not Taken 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.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Road Not Taken.
Top pick for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
Invisible, Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Road Not Taken.
Second-strongest match for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
Tangledeep
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Road Not Taken.
Third-strongest match for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Enter the magical world of Tangledeep, a beautifully polished dungeon crawler inspired by classic 16-bit RPGs! Colorful characters, a unique job system, tons of skills, items, and diverse environments with deep, turn-based roguelike gameplay. A different adventure every time you play!
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Road Not Taken.
Ranked #4 for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
WazHack
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Road Not Taken.
Ranked #5 for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Time moves forward only when you do in the dungeons of WazHack. Think your way out of problems instead of just spamming 'attack' and 'drink healing potion'.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Road Not Taken.
Ranked #6 for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Quest of Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Road Not Taken.
Ranked #7 for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Road Not Taken.
Ranked #8 for Road Not Taken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Road Not Taken at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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 Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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 ~47% under Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Road Not Taken.
Priced ~58% under Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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 Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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 ~67% under Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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 ~67% under Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Road Not Taken on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Road Not Taken.
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.
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 Road Not Taken.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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 Road Not Taken.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Spry Fox
Other recommendable Steam games by Spry Fox, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cozy Grove
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Road Not Taken.
Another title from Spry Fox, the studio behind Road Not Taken. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Welcome to Cozy Grove, a game about camping on a haunted, ever-changing island. As a Spirit Scout, you'll wander the island's forest each day, finding new hidden secrets and helping soothe the local ghosts. With a little time and a lot of crafting, you'll bring color and joy back to Cozy Grove!
Triple Town
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Road Not Taken.
Another title from Spry Fox, the studio behind Road Not Taken. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Triple Town is an award-winning original puzzle game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a bush, three bushes to make a tree...
Alphabear: Hardcover Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Road Not Taken.
Another title from Spry Fox, the studio behind Road Not Taken. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Alphabear is an award-winning, original English word puzzle game by Spry Fox. Spell words, collect bears!
Spirit Crossing
WHY THIS
Another title from Spry Fox, the studio behind Road Not Taken.
Rebuild the connection between worlds in Spirit Crossing, a collaborative life-sim MMO from the makers of "Cozy Grove." Explore distant mountaintop ruins, save lost spirits, befriend tiny bears, and build sanctuaries with other players while you carve out a cozy mountainside home of your own.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Road Not Taken.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Road Not Taken.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Quest of Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Road Not Taken.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Road Not Taken.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Road Not Taken.
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!
Frequently asked about Road Not Taken
- How much does Road Not Taken cost?
- Road Not Taken is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Road Not Taken?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Road Not Taken are Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, Invisible, Inc., Tangledeep.
- Who developed Road Not Taken?
- Road Not Taken was developed by Spry Fox.
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