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Games like Vain Riser

If Vain Riser is your kind of game, the closest matches are 空之歌:每当磁针再次振动,我便在此等待, BROKEN God Awakening and Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋 — 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 Vain Riser: "Vain Riser" is an AVG developed by Team Strrationalism. In the game, girls gather in the Victorian coastal town "Gloden Sand Town" to realize their dream of flying into the blue sky step by step.

2021IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDWindowsby 弦语蝶梦
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Steam players who put hours into Vain Riser 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. 空之歌:每当磁针再次振动,我便在此等待

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vain Riser.

    这是一款剧情向视觉小说游戏。来自乡村的学生们的故事。 嗯?是我的青梅竹马?我该去做什么? 好好上学,走出大山?是么......我.....我知道了。是这样吗?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  2. BROKEN God Awakening

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vain Riser.

    BROKEN God Awakening is a Galgame with supernatural abilities in a modern urban background.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vain Riser.

    Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. chihan

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vain Riser.

    《赤涵》是一款百合文字冒险游戏。失去母亲的高中生王静,为了忘却过去而沉浸在两点一线的平凡生活中。然而在高二的开学典礼后,两个神秘的转校生闯入了她的视野,回家路上还被一个美丽女孩吸取鲜血,怪事频频发生,从此与名叫“赤涵”的生物纠缠不清,唤醒母亲的奇迹似乎触手可及……

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  5. WAGAMAMA HIGH SPEC OC

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vain Riser.

    Kouki Narumi and the girls are back in this fan disc release with side stories featuring each of the heroines from WAGAMAMA HIGH SPEC including new stories focusing on the minor heroines as well. Enjoy the hijinks and romantic encounters in WAGAMAMA HIGH SPEC OC!

    2025RPGCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Your Love Story 被你忘记的那个夏天

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    This is a AVG with love as the theme. No matter how old you grow, every summer when cicadas sing, you can still remenber of your childhood dreams, childhood friends with whom you share memories, and those pure and shining love like crystal.

    2022IndieRPGCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. 错误之事

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    The Wrong Thing is an avg short visual novel produced by Coffee Studio. It tells the story of a former company's slaves who was fired at home and a female high school student from the first person perspective.

    2023IndieRPGCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. 在一切晴朗的日子里|On all clear days

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Vain Riser fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    This is an ADV game work in the style of short story writing. On a sunny holiday, the main character returns with his sister to the place where he went when he was a child. "There are so many things I want to say to her, and I want to tell her that I wish I could live with her like I used to.

    2024IndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vain Riser at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    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 ~62% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    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. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vain Riser.

    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 ↗
  4. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    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 ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vain Riser.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under Vain Riser on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vain Riser.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. 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 Vain Riser.

    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 ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vain Riser.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Vain Riser

How much does Vain Riser cost?
Vain Riser is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Vain Riser?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vain Riser are 空之歌:每当磁针再次振动,我便在此等待, BROKEN God Awakening, Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋.
Who developed Vain Riser?
Vain Riser was developed by 弦语蝶梦.

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 Vain Riser.

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