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Games like Koboo: The Tree Spirit

If Koboo: The Tree Spirit is your kind of game, the closest matches are Katanaut, Shadow of the Depth and Dead Cells — 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 Koboo: The Tree Spirit: Koboo is a fast paced action rogue-lite platformer where you battle against towering hunters as a small tree spirit by attacking their weak points. Forge powerful synergies, explore the Ancient Forest's branching paths, fish, catch bugs and garden to rebuild your home!

2024ActionIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Jerome Labelle, Simon Labelle
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Players who liked Koboo: The Tree Spirit also play

Steam players who put hours into Koboo: The Tree Spirit 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. Katanaut

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.

    2025ActionSportsIndie17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Shadow of the Depth

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Shadow of the Depth is a top-down action Roguelite game. Delve into a dungeon world of light and shadow to eradicate the monsters that ravage your home. Be prepared to step into the abyss before you!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Dead Cells

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Trinity Fusion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.

    2023ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Savara

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    In this colorful action roguelite, participate in the festivities organized for the pleasure of the warrior god. Equip your best weapons, prove your valor against powerful monsters, and permanently engrave your name in history!

    2025ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallback

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Risk of Rain (2013)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

    2013ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. BELOW

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Koboo: The Tree Spirit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Koboo: The Tree Spirit at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Action with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Action with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Koboo: The Tree Spirit on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    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 ↗
  3. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    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 ↗
  4. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Floating Point

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.

    2014IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Katanaut

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.

    2025ActionSportsIndie17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Shadow of the Depth

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Shadow of the Depth is a top-down action Roguelite game. Delve into a dungeon world of light and shadow to eradicate the monsters that ravage your home. Be prepared to step into the abyss before you!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Dead Cells

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Trinity Fusion

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.

    2023ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Savara

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    In this colorful action roguelite, participate in the festivities organized for the pleasure of the warrior god. Equip your best weapons, prove your valor against powerful monsters, and permanently engrave your name in history!

    2025ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. BELOW

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

    BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Koboo: The Tree Spirit

Does Koboo: The Tree Spirit run on Steam Deck?
Koboo: The Tree Spirit is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Koboo: The Tree Spirit cost?
Koboo: The Tree Spirit is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Koboo: The Tree Spirit?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Koboo: The Tree Spirit are Katanaut, Shadow of the Depth, Dead Cells.
Who developed Koboo: The Tree Spirit?
Koboo: The Tree Spirit was developed by Jerome Labelle, Simon Labelle and published by Honest Rogue 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 Koboo: The Tree Spirit.

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