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Games like The Vanished Soul

If The Vanished Soul is your kind of game, the closest matches are SURVEILLANCE DUTY: Twisted Sight, Konekomi Castle and The Street 10 — 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.

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About The Vanished Soul: The Vanished Soul is a solo-developed, first-person psychological horror set in 2016 in the fictional city of Novazenica. Explore a hauntingly realistic world, solve puzzles, make choices that matter, and face randomized scares in every playthrough.

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby InBetween Realities
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Steam players who put hours into The Vanished Soul 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. SURVEILLANCE DUTY: Twisted Sight

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Vanished Soul.

    A real-time surveillance thriller where you control security systems, switch between dozens of camera feeds, and react to anomalies before everything collapses. Observe or perish.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Konekomi Castle

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vanished Soul.

    Fifty years in the future, Japan is shaken by reports of a one-eyed alien. Chasing the story north, indie journalist Pandora gets caught in a snowstorm and seeks shelter in Konekomi Castle.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. The Street 10

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Vanished Soul.

    Caught in an infinite alley, look for Street 10 to find your way out.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Effigy : The Descent

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vanished Soul.

    Effigy : The Descent is a first-person survival-horror game in which you will face statues, with your lantern as your only tool to stop them. Gather all artefacts from the cave and freedom will be yours !

    2022ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Madness on Display

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vanished Soul.

    Venture into the world of chilling psychological horror, where the line between reality and nightmare is thinner than a spider's web. Grandview is not just a game, it is a test for your nerves and mind.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. NULL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Vanished Soul.

    It's 1998. You're trapped in an eerie neighborhood where nothing is as it seems. Unravel a psychological horror story of grief, obsession, and love. Solve puzzles, meet neighbors, and make choices as you uncover the truth behind a grieving father who created a perfect world, frozen in time forever.

    2026IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Locus Equation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Vanished Soul.

    You are an anthropod, a synthetically crafted life form. Your objective is to save the ones who are stuck on an uninhabited planet. Persuade, charm, manipulate: use your ultimate power—freedom of choice—in sci-fi role playing hyper variative game LOCUS EQUATION.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  8. Lab 1995

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Vanished Soul fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Vanished Soul.

    A psychological narrative horror game where you explore an abandoned government lab while an AI imitating your father guides you.. Would you rather sit quite OR discover the truth with Noah!!!

    2026IndieCasualSteam ↗

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 The Vanished Soul.

    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 Action and Adventure with The Vanished Soul.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Vanished Soul.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Vanished Soul.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Vanished Soul.

    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 ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Vanished Soul.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Vanished Soul.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Vanished Soul.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Vanished Soul

What games are most similar to The Vanished Soul?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Vanished Soul are SURVEILLANCE DUTY: Twisted Sight, Konekomi Castle, The Street 10.
Who developed The Vanished Soul?
The Vanished Soul was developed by InBetween Realities.

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 The Vanished Soul.

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