Games like Arborist
If Arborist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Celestial 9, Pearls of Wisdom and Black Jacket — 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 Arborist: Build a garden, survive the forecast, and follow a trail of birds through wild habitats in this cozy roguelike card game. Discover new cards, tools, and enchantments as you shape unique builds that keep every run feeling fresh.
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Celestial 9
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Top pick for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arborist.
Celestial 9 is a deckbuilding roguelike inspired by Mushi, a traditional card game from Teochew in southern China. Build powerful hands, stack multipliers, and unleash epic combos. Defeat foes, help your bloodline thrive, and burn incense to honor your ancestors.
Pearls of Wisdom
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Second-strongest match for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Arborist.
A relaxing card game with real-world side quests. Match inspiring and reflective quotes, combine special effect emblems, do out of game side quests and build your deck to get high scores. Reflect, relax, and walk away feeling good after you've finished playing.
Black Jacket
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Third-strongest match for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arborist.
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
Cropdeck
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Ranked #4 for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arborist.
Plant, grow, and harvest in this farming roguelite deckbuilder. Craft a powerful deck of plants and combine quirky scarecrows with passive effects for wild synergies. Pay taxes. Strategic, satisfying, and delightfully wholesome.
Slay the Spire 2
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Ranked #5 for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arborist.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
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Ranked #6 for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arborist.
Become the coolest kid of the playground in this playful roguelike deckbuilder. Craft every card yourself with adorable stickers and wow your rivals in tug-of-war card battles full of wonder!
RogueJack21
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Ranked #7 for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arborist.
RogueJack21 is a Blackjack-inspired deckbuilder where you build and upgrade your deck to battle your opponents. Navigate through procedurally generated casinos and take revenge on The House, the ruthless mafia ruling Noir City that stole everything from you.
Replicat
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Ranked #8 for Arborist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arborist.
A roguelike memory deckbuilder where you bend the rules of card matching with wild combos, strategy-defining items and cards featuring some personality-packed cats.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Indie with Arborist.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Arborist.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Arborist.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Arborist.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Arborist.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Arborist
- What games are most similar to Arborist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Arborist are Celestial 9, Pearls of Wisdom, Black Jacket.
- Who developed Arborist?
- Arborist was developed by Sprout and Sesame.
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 Arborist.
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