Games like The Forbidden Forest
If The Forbidden Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Phaze Shift, Li'l Red II and Set In Stone — 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 The Forbidden Forest: Jump, dash, and climb through a vibrant wilderness as three playable characters in this action-adventure metroidvania. Explore a sprawling interconnected map, master unique abilities, and face powerful foes, all while uncovering the mysteries of this war-stricken world and one special cub.
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Steam players who put hours into The Forbidden Forest 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.
Phaze Shift
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Top pick for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift! A tag-team, action Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
Li'l Red II
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Second-strongest match for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Don the red hood and venture into this fabled adventure as Lyra. Metroidvania meets Top-Down Adventure in this challenging, side-scrolling tale.
Set In Stone
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Third-strongest match for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
A 2D platformer metroidvania. Discover a strange place where everyone was turned into a tiny stone. Fight difficult bosses, explore an interconnected world, and piece together the chaotic history of people who suddenly lost their humanity (or not?).
Plus Ultra: Legado
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Ranked #4 for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Explore a vast, colorful world in this 2D hand-drawn Metroidvania set during the Age of Discoveries. Grab your halberd and become a hero amid the storm!
Graviton Reloaded
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Ranked #5 for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Graviton Reloaded is a 2D-Platformer inspired by other metroidvanias and indie games. In-game, you play as an alien, Xeon, who traverses a facility which has succumbed to the sands of time, but somehow Xeon remembers this place when it was clean. ...almost as if the facility aged without her.
Almos – A Dream Painter's Tale
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Ranked #6 for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Explore a hand-crafted Metroidvania where dreams and nightmares collide. Master fast-paced combat, craft powerful spells, and harness Color to restore a dying world while uncovering the truth behind the Dream Painters.
Faction Reticent
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Ranked #7 for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
A "whimsical fantasy" action platformer game with an open-ended progression. Utilize the given abilities to you to its fullest potential, and look epic while doing it.
Runic Curse Remastered
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Ranked #8 for The Forbidden Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
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 Action with The Forbidden Forest.
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 Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Forbidden 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 Action and Adventure with The Forbidden Forest.
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 The Forbidden Forest
- What games are most similar to The Forbidden Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Forbidden Forest are Phaze Shift, Li'l Red II, Set In Stone.
- Who developed The Forbidden Forest?
- The Forbidden Forest was developed by Stone Studios.
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 The Forbidden Forest.
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