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Games like Verne: The Shape of Fantasy

If Verne: The Shape of Fantasy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Signs of the Sojourner, the Devil rais'd the storm and Bahnsen Knights — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lore collectibles deepen background, soundtrack enhances immersion and atmospheric. 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 Verne: The Shape of Fantasy: Become Jules Verne and adventure into the dangers that hide in Hemera, a fantastic parallel world built from his own imagination. Explore, solve puzzles and unlock the most coveted secret of the mighty Atlantis.

2023IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 73Windows · macOSby Gametopia
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Players who liked Verne: The Shape of Fantasy also play

Steam players who put hours into Verne: The Shape of Fantasy 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. Signs of the Sojourner

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Top pick for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?

    2020IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. the Devil rais'd the storm

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    The Devil rais'd the storm is a mysterious science fiction visual novel with point-and-click elements. Unravel a tense and moody story as you navigate your new role stationed at a strange outpost on a remote planet.

    2025IndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Bahnsen Knights

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.

    2023IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Venba

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.

    202314.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Alcyone: The Last City

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Ranked #6 for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    A thrilling point-and-click adventure game where you play as Di Renjie, ancient China's most famous and gifted investigator, as he tracks a serial killer in the heart of the Tang Dynasty's capital city.

    2019IndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Sky of Tides

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Sky of Tides is a choice-driven isometric sci-fi adventure following Rin D’Lorah as she searches for her missing father in a shattered world where oceans float in the sky. Shape her through decisions, balance who she is becoming, and uncover a mystery where every choice quietly rewrites the future.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  8. Road 96: Mile 0

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Ranked #8 for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure12.96 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Verne: The Shape of Fantasy at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Verne: The Shape of Fantasy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Verne: The Shape of Fantasy

Does Verne: The Shape of Fantasy run on Steam Deck?
Verne: The Shape of Fantasy 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 Verne: The Shape of Fantasy cost?
Verne: The Shape of Fantasy is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Verne: The Shape of Fantasy?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Verne: The Shape of Fantasy are Signs of the Sojourner, the Devil rais'd the storm, Bahnsen Knights.
Who developed Verne: The Shape of Fantasy?
Verne: The Shape of Fantasy was developed by Gametopia and published by Assemble Entertainment, WhisperGames.

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 Verne: The Shape of Fantasy.

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