Games like Take Root
If Take Root is your kind of game, the closest matches are Settletopia, The Wuslers and Oxytopia — 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 Take Root: Take Root is a COOPERATIVE colony simulator where plants and robots survive together in an urban post-apocalypse. Develop your settlement, build outposts, explore a procedurally generated city, and uncover the mystery behind the strange Event.
Players who liked Take Root also play
Steam players who put hours into Take Root 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.
Settletopia
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Top pick for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Take Root.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
The Wuslers
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Second-strongest match for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
Build a cozy settlement and economy where little Wuslers carry every single good on foot along the roads you lay out. Feed your mines, expand your territory with barracks and play solo, against the AI or with up to eight players on PC and Android.
Oxytopia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Take Root.
A co-op colony sandbox where temperature and fluids run on a living cellular-automaton simulation. Terraform a dead world with friends, build a base that runs itself… then watch one leak bring it all down.
TimbrianGuard
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Ranked #4 for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
CircuitVeil
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Ranked #5 for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
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Ranked #6 for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Take Root.
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Forsaken: Year One
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Ranked #7 for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
After Long Night
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Ranked #8 for Take Root fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Take Root.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Take Root.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Take Root.
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?
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 Take Root.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Take Root.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Take Root.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Take Root.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Take Root.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Take Root
- Does Take Root have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Take Root supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Take Root?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Take Root are Settletopia, The Wuslers, Oxytopia.
- Who developed Take Root?
- Take Root was developed by Zhukovsky Games.
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 Take Root.
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