Games like V Rising
If V Rising is your kind of game, the closest matches are TheDark, Out of Reach and The Riftbreaker — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and epic. 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 →V Rising is a 2024 action-adventure massively multiplayer game from Stunlock Studios priced at $34.99. Players awaken as vampires in an open world where they must hunt for blood, evade sunlight, and progress through blood-magic systems while building gothic castles with extensive customization options. The game features boss-scaling encounters that demand tactical preparation, multiple vampire transformations, and resource management alongside base-building mechanics. Players can engage in PvP sieges or cooperate in co-op PvE experiences, with server settings allowing adjustment of difficulty and grind intensity. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as dark, atmospheric, and immersive, noting the experience as epic. The game holds a 90% positive rating from over 53,000 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck.
About V Rising: Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
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Steam players who put hours into V Rising 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.
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with V Rising.
Second-strongest match for V Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with V Rising.
Third-strongest match for V Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Ranked #4 for V Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with V Rising.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Ranked #5 for V Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Ranked #6 for V Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Plains of Pain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Ranked #7 for V Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Rend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Ranked #8 for V Rising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
Epic fantasy adventure meets competitive survival in Rend. Inspired by the fabled universe of Nordic myth, choose to play solo in Classic and Exploration modes to build your stronghold, tame brutal creatures, and conquer enemy players or play among three rival factions in Faction War mode.
Reviewers mention these as similar to V Rising
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with V Rising.
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Dune: Awakening
WHY THIS
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Bloodline Champions
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with V Rising.
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with V Rising.
Bloodline Champions is a Free-to-Play online PvP Arena game where players engage in short, intense battles of up to ten players divided into two teams. Each player takes control over one of several bloodlines, each with their own unique weapons and abilities. Easy to learn, challenging to master.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with V Rising.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with V Rising.
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with V Rising.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Battlerite
WHY THIS
Reviewers of V Rising cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with V Rising.
BATTLERITE is an action-packed team arena brawler. Experience the unique combination of top-down shooter meets fast-paced fighting game and challenge friends and foes in a battle of reaction. The Arena awaits!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below V Rising at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with V Rising.
Priced ~71% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with V Rising.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with V Rising.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with V Rising.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with V Rising.
Priced ~43% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under V Rising on Steam right now. Shares Action with V Rising.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Massively Multiplayer with V Rising.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with V Rising.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with V Rising.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with V Rising.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from Stunlock Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Stunlock Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Battlerite
WHY THIS
Another title from Stunlock Studios, the studio behind V Rising. Shares Action with V Rising.
BATTLERITE is an action-packed team arena brawler. Experience the unique combination of top-down shooter meets fast-paced fighting game and challenge friends and foes in a battle of reaction. The Arena awaits!
Battlerite Royale
WHY THIS
Another title from Stunlock Studios, the studio behind V Rising. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with V Rising.
Explore the fantastical Talon Island in a thrilling fusion between a MOBA and Battle Royale game. Choose your Champion and master their unique abilities, loot for treasures alone or with a friend, and rise above the competition in a top-down action-fest. Only the best survive to the end!
Bloodline Champions
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with V Rising.
Another title from Stunlock Studios, the studio behind V Rising. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with V Rising.
Bloodline Champions is a Free-to-Play online PvP Arena game where players engage in short, intense battles of up to ten players divided into two teams. Each player takes control over one of several bloodlines, each with their own unique weapons and abilities. Easy to learn, challenging to master.
Frequently asked about V Rising
- Is V Rising verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — V Rising is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does V Rising cost?
- V Rising is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does V Rising have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — V Rising supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to V Rising?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside V Rising are TheDark, Out of Reach, The Riftbreaker.
- Who developed V Rising?
- V Rising was developed by Stunlock Studios.
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