Games like The Vellescian Gambit
If The Vellescian Gambit is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vigil: A Knight Story, 1453: Fall of Constantinople and The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — 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 Vellescian Gambit: Play the role of a merchant's apprentice in this 1600s-inspired realistic setting full with trading companies and business ploys. A short (2-3h) but replayable visual novel/RPG with logistics and trading aspects, brought to life with beautiful baroque paintings and classical music.
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Steam players who put hours into The Vellescian Gambit 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.
Vigil: A Knight Story
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.
1453: Fall of Constantinople
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Survive or Thrive
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Ranked #4 for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Crikey, mate! You shouldn't be out here all on your own! There's big MONSTAS' runnin' about! And besides... It's not always the beasts that you gotta watch out for. Beasts are easy to predict! They just wanna kill and eat ya! Humans are much harder... They'll pretend to be your friend first!
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Unrest
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Ranked #6 for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Roadwarden
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Vellescian Gambit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Vellescian Gambit at current Steam store prices.
Hentai Girl
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Priced ~50% under The Vellescian Gambit on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Relax class puzzle game to keep you in a good mood
Overlord™
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under The Vellescian Gambit on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation. Your actions impact the game world. With incredible power at your disposal and a team of evil minded minions to do your evil bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be incredibly despotic?
The Vagrant
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Vellescian Gambit on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
House of Detention
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vellescian Gambit on Steam right now.
Unique horror with a Deep plot, a lot of characters, great sound effects and a creepy atmosphere of Real Dungeon. Locker Room, Gym, Various Monsters, Atmospheric Music, Meme Scrolls, The Lash of the Spain King and much more! Right Version Included.
Furry Love
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vellescian Gambit on Steam right now.
Entertaining Arcade Game, consisting of a Series of Exciting Mini-Games with the Beautiful Furry Girls. Amazing Atmosphere, Great Music, 32 Levels with Full HD Furry Artworks. Join us! 🐺
The Deed
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vellescian Gambit on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
A keenly dark twist on the traditional murder mystery setting, The Deed is an Adventure/RPG game about getting away with murder. Arran Bruce, the rightful heir to Dunshiel House, returns home to settle a score with his estranged family.
Hentai Girl Karen
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vellescian Gambit on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Relax class puzzle game to keep you in a good mood
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with The Vellescian Gambit.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Overboard!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Frequently asked about The Vellescian Gambit
- How much does The Vellescian Gambit cost?
- The Vellescian Gambit is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Vellescian Gambit?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Vellescian Gambit are Vigil: A Knight Story, 1453: Fall of Constantinople, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante.
- Who developed The Vellescian Gambit?
- The Vellescian Gambit was developed by Vellescian Games.
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