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.
Get personalized picks →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

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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.
Once Upon a Sea
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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.
Hagia Sophia VR Experience
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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.
Paint To Pixel
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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.
Floating with Spirits
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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.
The Museum of ThroughView
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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.
Solar System VR
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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.
EscapeVR: Trapped Above the Clouds
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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.
EscapeVR: The Basement
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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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Holy City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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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.
Lethal Company
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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.
People Playground
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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.
Vampire Survivors
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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!
PEAK
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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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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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.
The Looker
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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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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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!
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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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!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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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.
The Lab
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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!
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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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