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Games like The Holy City

If The Holy City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Once Upon a Sea, Hagia Sophia VR Experience and Paint To Pixel — 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 The Holy City: Gamified and Interactive documentary experience. Traveling through volumetric captures, the user unlocks clues and completes challenges illuminating common values between the three Abrahamic religions. Each section concludes with a video of the holiest day, making rare moments, accessible virtually

2020StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDWindowsby Holy City VR, Nimrod Shanit, Sean Thomas Evans
The Holy City — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Holy City also play

Steam players who put hours into The Holy City 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. Once Upon a Sea

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Holy City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Holy City.

    Once Upon a Sea is a poetic, interactive XR documentary telling the tragic tale of the legendary Dead Sea.

    2021AdventureCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Hagia Sophia VR Experience

    WHY THIS

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

    Hagia Sophia literally Holy Mosque of Hagia Sophia the Grand, and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul, designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Paint To Pixel

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Holy City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Paint To Pixel is a Virtual Reality exhibition that charts the history of UK graffiti. It features interviews with prominent UK artists and personal photo archives that cover 6 decades of graffiti writing.

    2022Casual7.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Floating with Spirits

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Holy City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Holy City.

    In this cinematic virtual reality, magical stories are told by 2 young Mazatec, indigenous sisters, Jocelynne and Jaquelyne, who recall the ancestral knowledge and mystical cosmogony that their shaman grandmother used to share with them, in the misty mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.

    2024Indie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. The Museum of ThroughView

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Holy City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.

    The Museum of ThroughView is a VR museum unlike anything else. This is the first time a virtual reality app showcases 2d to 3d conversions of famous paintings and old photographs. When looking at these paintings in VR, the paintings themselves can also be experienced in 3d.

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Solar System VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Holy City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.

    An educational virtual reality journey through space. Be the first space tourist in history and explore planets and moons in our Solar System like never before. You can experience a journey to the Earth's moon, explore Mars, and even see the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. EscapeVR: Trapped Above the Clouds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Holy City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.

    You find yourself trapped above the clouds - in a mile high building which is still partly under construction! Can you escape? Explore the environment, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and find your way through a total of 3 large areas to -hopefully- escape the penthouse of this VR escape room game.

    2017IndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. EscapeVR: The Basement

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Holy City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.

    You find yourself locked in the cell of an unknown basement with nothing else than a bed and a toilet. Can you escape? Explore the environment, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and find your way through a total of 7 rooms to -hopefully- escape the basement of this VR escape room game.

    2016IndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Holy City at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Holy City.

    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 ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Holy City.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Holy City.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Holy City.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Holy City.

    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 ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Holy City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Holy City.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 The Holy City.

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Holy City.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Holy City.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

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

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

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

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Holy City

How much does The Holy City cost?
The Holy City is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Holy City?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Holy City are Once Upon a Sea, Hagia Sophia VR Experience, Paint To Pixel.
Who developed The Holy City?
The Holy City was developed by Holy City VR, Nimrod Shanit, Sean Thomas Evans and published by Holy City VR inc.

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 The Holy City.

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