Games like Whispers in the Forest
If Whispers in the Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Colony Survival, Final Outpost: Definitive Edition and Grim Nights — 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 Whispers in the Forest: Whispers in the Forest is a single-player base defense strategy game where you must build, upgrade, and defend your base against demonic creatures in a cursed forest. Manage your resources, lead your troops, and survive the darkness of the night as you fight to protect your only hope for salvation.
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Colony Survival
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Top pick for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Whispers in the Forest.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Grim Nights
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Third-strongest match for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
From Glory To Goo
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Ranked #4 for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Whispers in the Forest.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Phoenix Hope
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Ranked #5 for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Kingdom Two Crowns
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Ranked #6 for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Kingdom Eighties
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Ranked #7 for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Whispers in the Forest.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Rise to Ruins
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Ranked #8 for Whispers in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Whispers in the Forest at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~45% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
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
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Priced ~45% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~45% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
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
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Priced ~45% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Whispers in the Forest.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~45% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Whispers in the Forest.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~45% under Whispers in the Forest on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Whispers in the 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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Whispers in the Forest.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Whispers in the Forest.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whispers in the 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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Whispers in the Forest.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Kingdom Two Crowns
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Whispers in the Forest.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
Kingdom Eighties
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Whispers in the Forest.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Frequently asked about Whispers in the Forest
- How much does Whispers in the Forest cost?
- Whispers in the Forest is listed on Steam at 9.00 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Whispers in the Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Whispers in the Forest are Colony Survival, Final Outpost: Definitive Edition, Grim Nights.
- Who developed Whispers in the Forest?
- Whispers in the Forest was developed by Atzi Games Team and published by Atzi Games Studio.
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