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Games like Vengeful Heart

If Vengeful Heart is your kind of game, the closest matches are VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, Time of the Lilies and As We Know It — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and emotional. 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 Vengeful Heart: Betrayed by the calculated cruelty of an evil corporation, Josephine finds herself homeless, jobless and without a heart. With nothing to lose, she joins a ragtag group of rebels seeking vengeance. Choose a love interest and let them guide Josephine's heart in this capitalist hellscape.

2020IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Salmon Snake Games, Elmo Mustonen, Hanuli
Vengeful Heart — Steam game cover
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Characters feel complex and flawedSingle choice reshapes the endingStriking pc 98 pixel art and synthwave soundtrackAtmosphericDarkEmotional

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Steam players who put hours into Vengeful Heart 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. VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vengeful Heart.

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

    VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Time of the Lilies

    WHY THIS

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

    A spy thriller featuring an escaped State Security agent navigating a conspiracy involving federal police, foreign agitators, and a familiar face from years past.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. As We Know It

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vengeful Heart.

    Third-strongest match for Vengeful Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Vengeful Heart.

    A heavily branching visual novel, featuring love, friendship and life-sim elements in a future destroyed by the sun.

    2019IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Univocity

    WHY THIS

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

    Univocity is a short cyberpunk visual novel wrapped in neon aesthetics with a lush atmospheric soundtrack, featuring a deep and emotional conversation between two people about taking down a global tech monopoly.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Synergia

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vengeful Heart.

    Ranked #5 for Vengeful Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vengeful Heart.

    Synergia is a yuri thriller visual novel that takes place in a cyberpunk future, wrapped up in a beautifully unique, vibrant neon aesthetic. At the end of the world, sometimes love is the ultimate crime.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation4.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Ambition: A Minuet in Power

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vengeful Heart.

    Ranked #6 for Vengeful Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vengeful Heart.

    18th century Paris - a city of love, lies and revolution. You are a woman of fashion trying to survive the political turmoil. Date a cast of unforgettable characters. Amass the wealth and respect you deserve. Engage in gossip that can alter the course of history, or lead you to the guillotine.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation20.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vengeful Heart.

    Ranked #7 for Vengeful Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vengeful Heart.

    It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Solstice

    WHY THIS

    Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Vengeful Heart.

    Ranked #8 for Vengeful Heart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vengeful Heart.

    Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.

    2016IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vengeful Heart.

    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 ~50% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vengeful Heart.

    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. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vengeful Heart.

    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 ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vengeful Heart.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vengeful Heart.

    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 ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vengeful Heart.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vengeful Heart.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Vengeful Heart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vengeful Heart.

    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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Vengeful Heart.

    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. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Vengeful Heart.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Vengeful Heart.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Vengeful Heart.

    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 ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vengeful Heart.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vengeful Heart.

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Vengeful Heart

How much does Vengeful Heart cost?
Vengeful Heart is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Vengeful Heart?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vengeful Heart are VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, Time of the Lilies, As We Know It.
Who developed Vengeful Heart?
Vengeful Heart was developed by Salmon Snake Games, Elmo Mustonen, Hanuli and published by Salmon Snake 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 Vengeful Heart.

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