Games like Varney Lake
If Varney Lake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mothmen 1966, Fledgling Manor and Mojika - Truth Rears Its Ugly Head — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its perspective switching deepens immersion, atmospheric and melancholic. 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 Varney Lake: Summer, 1954. A perfect vacation awaits three best friends, playing games, making crazy plans, and running from bullies... Until they meet the vampire. What really happened that summer at Varney Lake?
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Mothmen 1966
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Top pick for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Fledgling Manor
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Second-strongest match for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
A supernatural horror visual novel where vampires compete to save their eternal unlives in a high-stakes reality show.
Mojika - Truth Rears Its Ugly Head
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Third-strongest match for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Varney Lake.
Haunted by the ability to read minds, Suteru embarks on a journey of revenge against those who wronged him. Uncovering the secrets of his tormentors, he must confront his demons in a story that explores the depths and darkness of the human mind.
Loretta
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Ranked #4 for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Death Come True
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Ranked #5 for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Varney Lake.
Everything rides on your choices in this new wave interactive movie game. Experience a thrilling science fiction mystery in full-length live-action format—from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka!
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Ranked #6 for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
BURIED STARS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Ranked #7 for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Varney Lake.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Sumire
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Varney Lake.
Ranked #8 for Varney Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Varney Lake at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Varney Lake on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Varney Lake.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Varney Lake.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Varney Lake.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Varney Lake.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from LCB Game Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by LCB Game Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Mothmen 1966
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Another title from LCB Game Studio, the studio behind Varney Lake. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Bahnsen Knights
WHY THIS
Another title from LCB Game Studio, the studio behind Varney Lake. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
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.
Grizzly Man
WHY THIS
Another title from LCB Game Studio, the studio behind Varney Lake. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
1983, Alaska... During the Salmon Run, a deadly figure known as The Grizzly Man terrorizes a group of tourists led by Bob, an amnesiac former Man in Black. Survive the journey or become the catch of the day in this breathtaking pixel-art interactive fiction with heart-pounding pace!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Loretta
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Death Come True
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Varney Lake.
Everything rides on your choices in this new wave interactive movie game. Experience a thrilling science fiction mystery in full-length live-action format—from genius creator of the "Danganronpa" series, Kazutaka Kodaka!
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
BURIED STARS
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Varney Lake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Varney Lake.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Sumire
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Varney Lake.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Varney Lake.
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.
Frequently asked about Varney Lake
- Does Varney Lake run on Steam Deck?
- Varney Lake 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 Varney Lake cost?
- Varney Lake is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Varney Lake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Varney Lake are Mothmen 1966, Fledgling Manor, Mojika - Truth Rears Its Ugly Head.
- Who developed Varney Lake?
- Varney Lake was developed by LCB Game Studio and published by Chorus Worldwide Games.
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