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Games like Beyond The Roots

If Beyond The Roots is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forsaken Ones, Nimbusfall and ABYSSAL BLADE — 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 Beyond The Roots: Rise to the ranks of gods. Defeat the powerful fallen angels standing in your way in this challenging pixel-art boss rush, and earn your place in paradise.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Requiem For A New God
Beyond The Roots — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Beyond The Roots 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. Forsaken Ones

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    A soulslike action game focused on boss battles. Push your limits, learn from death, and overcome obstacles in a hostile world.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Nimbusfall

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    Dive into a new and thrilling boss rush-style video game where revenge is the only motivation. Step into the shoes of the last survivor of a race decimated by The Moon, now seeking to settle the score with the culprit of its extinction. But what secrets does The Moon hold?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. ABYSSAL BLADE

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    ABYSSAL BLADE is a pixel-art boss rush inspired by MMO raid mechanics. With only 1 HP, take up your blade and challenge the five stages of grief.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Jacob The Farmer

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    Jacob The Farmer - is a story about a farmer who died from being hit by his cow. But this is clinical death and he can return. Help Jacob navigate through evil demons and seething lava to return to his farm! The game has excellent graphics, a frightening atmosphere and a lot of fun !!!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Onikura

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    A frantic and challenging boss rush with options to customize your play style as you progress. Defeat all enemies in your path with attacks, specials, parries, and unique abilities.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. NanoApostle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    NanoApostle is a dark sci-fi boss rush action game featuring intense reaction-based combat and the unique "Destruction Point" system. Play as Anita, a child augmented with lethal nanomachines, as she battles against twisted cybernetic experiments to escape a top-secret facility.

    2024ActionIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    Battle your way through the grim Underground world in this brutal action-adventure RPG. Exterminate hordes of enemies, fight dangerous bosses and explore the world the way you want!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 异世界生存指南

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Beyond The Roots fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    【Real and authentic CRPG】 Online, a unique adventure game! Each character has a distinctive image and skills, with unique styles of movements. Players can work together to encircle powerful fantasy legendary creatures, obtain fantasy ingredients,

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Beyond The Roots.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beyond The Roots.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Beyond The Roots.

    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 ↗
  5. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beyond The Roots.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond The Roots.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Beyond The Roots

What games are most similar to Beyond The Roots?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beyond The Roots are Forsaken Ones, Nimbusfall, ABYSSAL BLADE.
Who developed Beyond The Roots?
Beyond The Roots was developed by Requiem For A New God.

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 Beyond The Roots.

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