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Games like NuTREEnts

If NuTREEnts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Afterglow Fortress, Von Neumann Project and Factorwave — 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 NuTREEnts: NuTREEnts is a strategic tower defense roguelike about growing and expanding your forest. Plant saplings, fend off bugs, and explore a desolate planet while you grow a mighty colony of trees!

StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindowsby Goose Machine
NuTREEnts — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into NuTREEnts 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. Afterglow Fortress

    WHY THIS

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

    A cute hand-drawn 2D medieval RTS game. Gather resources, build your base, develop by day, and defend against monster hordes at night to protect your realm.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Von Neumann Project

    WHY THIS

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

    Von Neumann Project is a space based RTS where you build, mine, and expand across the universe in an attempt to find your creator's equals. Play across 4 different sectors with 28 handcrafted missions, with each sector introducing unique enemies, buildings, and missions.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Factorwave

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for NuTREEnts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with NuTREEnts.

    Fast-paced factory builder with combat and territorial logistics. Automate production, unlock powerful Sector Hub bonuses, defend your infrastructure, and expand across a hostile planet.

    2026IndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Brews & Kings

    WHY THIS

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

    A roguelike medieval city builder where your whole city feeds one sprawling brewing operation. Scout for rare ingredients and resources, raise the farms, mills, and workshops that keep it running, and supply the factions you want to win over. Kings rise or fall on the strength of your beer.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Defe

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for NuTREEnts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NuTREEnts.

    Tower Defense Roguelike with Action RPG elements, combining base building, real-time strategy, resource management, and intense top-down combat. Build by day. Defend by night. Explore and survive, if you can.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  6. OUTWORKS

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a towering 3D fortress and hold the line. Stack floors, raise walls, and place turrets by altitude to survive escalating swarms of ground and flying machines closing on your core — then watch one collapsing tower take everything with it. A lean, neon, code-built base-defense roguelite.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation4.24 USDSteam ↗
  7. Rise Under the Warstorm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for NuTREEnts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with NuTREEnts.

    Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.

    2027StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  8. Fab.exe

    WHY THIS

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

    Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with NuTREEnts.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with NuTREEnts.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NuTREEnts.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with NuTREEnts.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with NuTREEnts.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about NuTREEnts

What games are most similar to NuTREEnts?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NuTREEnts are Afterglow Fortress, Von Neumann Project, Factorwave.
Who developed NuTREEnts?
NuTREEnts was developed by Goose Machine.

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 NuTREEnts.

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