Games like In The Roots Of The Mountain
If In The Roots Of The Mountain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beasts of Fortune, Sharp Trouble and Throughspire — 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 In The Roots Of The Mountain: Mine deep into procedurally generated caves, gather rare ores, upgrade your pickaxe, and explore an ever-changing underground world. Build your fortune with a shopkeeper, swing across caverns with your grappling hook, and uncover ancient treasures in this relaxing 2D pixel mining adventure.

Players who liked In The Roots Of The Mountain also play
Steam players who put hours into In The Roots Of The Mountain 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.
Beasts of Fortune
WHY THIS
Top pick for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
A roaming-warband roguelike with procedurally generated units and autobattler combat.
Sharp Trouble
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Sharp trouble - King, wake up, we're under attack! Evil barbarians have invaded your castle and are trying to take out the entire treasury - stop this outrage in this hardcore platformer!
Throughspire
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Reach the depths and heights of a world-piercing Spire, and uncover the truth behind the Spire and the broken world through tense runs.
Pour Boy and the Nitro Necromancer
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
A hand-animated coffee horror platformer from the world of Pour Boy Coffee. Fight zombrews, collect flies, complete quests, find secrets, and survive the crashing moon to face the Nitro Cold Brew Necromancer.
Qipa World-Hello Big Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
A lot of time (depending on your skill, hours to days) Up to dozens of background music. Well-designed game levels. Complete story, multiple game stages. Beautiful and fantastic art style. Dozens of achievements. Multiple leaderboards. This is a very challenging game. It can be very difficult, but you are worth trying.
Super Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Haiku, the Robot
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Ad Fundum
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for In The Roots Of The Mountain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below In The Roots Of The Mountain at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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 ~44% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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 ~44% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under In The Roots Of The Mountain on Steam right now. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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 In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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 In The Roots Of The Mountain.
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.
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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.
Super Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Build your own Super Mining Mech and explore the underground in search of new natural resources. Customize your mech with unlockable parts to dig deeper than ever - by yourself or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer! So, what are you waiting for? There’s mining to be done!
Haiku, the Robot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you.
Ad Fundum
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with In The Roots Of The Mountain.
Take control of a giant mech and dive into an exciting underground adventure in a dieselpunk world! Dig deep, collect valuable minerals, upgrade wisely, explore diverse locations, uncover ancient secrets, and try not to explode! Will you save the world or vanish in the depths below?
Frequently asked about In The Roots Of The Mountain
- How much does In The Roots Of The Mountain cost?
- In The Roots Of The Mountain is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to In The Roots Of The Mountain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside In The Roots Of The Mountain are Beasts of Fortune, Sharp Trouble, Throughspire.
- Who developed In The Roots Of The Mountain?
- In The Roots Of The Mountain was developed by CaljDev.
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