Games like Vanova's Stories
If Vanova's Stories is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist, First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds and Together in Between — 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 Vanova's Stories: With your friends, play as extravagant detectives in this wacky Point & Click game to solve the mystery behind multiple crimes. Will you manage to gather the clues that only you can find and share them with your team to accuse the right suspect?
Players who liked Vanova's Stories also play
Steam players who put hours into Vanova's Stories 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.
Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist
WHY THIS
Top pick for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
"Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.
First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
"First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds" is a co-operative atmospheric escape-room-style puzzle game, set in a beautiful luxury airship. Do you think you have what it takes to overcome the challenges that await you on the airship?
Together in Between
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanova's Stories.
Together in Between is a first-person adventure-puzzle game. You have been imprisoned in a magic book with your partner, in the same place but in different dimensions. Will you be able to overcome the Wizard-King's puzzles, and see your partner again?
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
Crime O'Clock
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
The Low Road
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
Lie, blackmail, and steal your way down The Low Road. Rookie agent Noomi Kovacs must navigate her way through the world of corporate espionage in this dark spy comedy set in the 1970s.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Vanova's Stories fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vanova's Stories at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Vanova's Stories on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanova's Stories.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vanova's Stories on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vanova's Stories on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanova's Stories.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Vanova's Stories on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanova's Stories.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Vanova's Stories on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanova's Stories.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vanova's Stories.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanova's Stories.
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 Vanova's Stories.
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 and Casual with Vanova's Stories.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vanova's Stories.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanova's Stories.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Frequently asked about Vanova's Stories
- How much does Vanova's Stories cost?
- Vanova's Stories is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Vanova's Stories have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Vanova's Stories supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Vanova's Stories?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanova's Stories are Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist, First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds, Together in Between.
- Who developed Vanova's Stories?
- Vanova's Stories was developed by Madgik Yarn Studio.
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 Vanova's Stories.
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