Games like Tears of Vanfell
If Tears of Vanfell is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ascension Trail, Touhou Chronicle of Youkai Prayers and Edge Ember — 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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Ascension Trail
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Top pick for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
A top-down co-op action roguelike where horde-slaying combat meets a real dungeon crawl. Fight with swords, bows, spells, or bare fists, manual or full auto-aim, solo or with a friend. Just climb faster than your shard-fire burns. The dark is hungry.
Touhou Chronicle of Youkai Prayers
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Second-strongest match for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
"Touhou Chronicle of Youkai Prayers" is a Touhou fan-made roguelike action game.Due to a Kedama incident in Gensokyo, Flandre Scarlet eagerly takes the initiative to resolve it. Or rather, she's actually just causing chaos, definitely not trying to solve anything!
Edge Ember
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Third-strongest match for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
Edge Ember is a top-down action Roguelike game. You will play characters of different professions, embark on a threatening journey, challenge forces from all sides, and find the answer to save the city-state and the tribe.
Aksun
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Ranked #4 for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
A hack & slash roguelite rooted in Korean shamanism. Descend to the dark shadows of Aksun, chain hundreds of elemental artifacts and abilities into devastating reactions, and break the cursed cycle.
HERETIC
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Ranked #5 for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
Faith remains, even after the gods are dead. Branded a heretic, you must explore perilous sanctuaries to uncover a forgotten truth. Master ever-changing battles, craft powerful item and skill synergies, and overcome relentless foes in this dark fantasy roguelite action RPG.
Malignant Survivors 2
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Ranked #6 for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Tears of Vanfell.
Experience the most intense 3D crowd combat ever. Pick your hero, gear up and face the horde. Grab loot, get stronger to stay alive. Didn't work? Try another hero, another build. Find your own path to the Abyss.
Raiders Of Below
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Ranked #7 for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Tears of Vanfell.
Create absurd builds, discover powerful item synergies, discover secrets, challenge the dungeon alone or with up to 4 players.
Realmlords
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Ranked #8 for Tears of Vanfell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Tears of Vanfell.
REALMLORDS is a fast‑paced Bullet‑hell / Spell-hell roguelite with 12 distinct classes, each offering unique weapons, abilities, and build paths. Explore 9 dangerous Randomly Generated Elemental Realms filled with unique monsters, hazards, and loot as you fight to survive each run.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Tears of Vanfell.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tears of Vanfell.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tears of Vanfell.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Early Access with Tears of Vanfell.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
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Frequently asked about Tears of Vanfell
- Does Tears of Vanfell have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Tears of Vanfell supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Tears of Vanfell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tears of Vanfell are Ascension Trail, Touhou Chronicle of Youkai Prayers, Edge Ember.
- Who developed Tears of Vanfell?
- Tears of Vanfell was developed by Lazy Cat Games and published by Lazy Cat Games, Vsoo Games.
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 Tears of Vanfell.
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