Games like Vanishing Realms™
If Vanishing Realms™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shadow of Valhalla, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR and Shonen Adventure : The Dual Blades Hero — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and mysterious. 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 →Vanishing Realms is a 2019 VR action-adventure RPG developed by Indimo Labs LLC, priced at $19.99. Designed exclusively for virtual reality, it combines melee combat with dungeon exploration in a fantasy setting. The game features smooth locomotion, climbing mechanics, inventory management, and environmental puzzles alongside traps. Players engage in what reviewers describe as accurate and satisfying VR sword combat, while exploring hand-crafted environments to uncover hidden treasures. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, immersive, mysterious, and retro. The title is noted for pioneering early VR dungeon crawler design, with its mechanics and narrative expanded through downloadable content. It currently holds a 91% positive rating from over 2,000 Steam reviews, and supports a normal difficulty with a short session length in solo play.
About Vanishing Realms™: Vanishing Realms is an immersive RPG designed exclusively for Virtual Reality. Grab your sword and fight life-sized monsters in epic face-to-face melee combat. Explore mystic domains, outwit magical wards, seek lost artifacts, wield sorcery and steel to take on denizens of the Undead Realm.
Players who liked Vanishing Realms™ also play
Steam players who put hours into Vanishing Realms™ 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.
Shadow of Valhalla
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Top pick for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Visceral physics-based VR combat set within an ancient realm of Viking lore and mystic powers! Discover magical runes and unlock spells while battling evil forces throughout eternity!
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Second-strongest match for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Vanishing Realms™.
A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.
Shonen Adventure : The Dual Blades Hero
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Explore multiple worlds, fight creatures, level up, unlock powerful elemental skills, sell your loot, buy items to increase specific stats and more. Start from the bottom and become a hero with the shonen spirit. You can also rank yourself among all the other players and try to reach the top.
Karnage Chronicles
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Ranked #4 for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
A true VR Action RPG built from ground up to fully immerse you in what VR has to offer.
Legendary Tales
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Shares an immersive mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Ranked #5 for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.
Sword Reverie
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Ranked #6 for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Be an anime protagonist and explore a fantasy world in VR. Use your unique abilities and sword skills to defeat invading enemies. Come join Stella on an adventure now!
Tracery of Fate
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Ranked #7 for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Tracery of Fate is a dark fantasy cooperative/solo VR game in magic post-apocalyptic world.
The Morrigan
WHY THIS
Shares weapon progression and an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Ranked #8 for Vanishing Realms™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Step into this world of beautiful stylised graphics and explore striking, handcrafted environments - torch in one hand, big axe in the other. Built exclusively for VR.
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Karnage Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Reviewers of Vanishing Realms™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
A true VR Action RPG built from ground up to fully immerse you in what VR has to offer.
Rec Room
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Reviewers of Vanishing Realms™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
VR Dungeon Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Reviewers of Vanishing Realms™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
VR Dungeon Knight is a dungeon crawler with random level generation and Online Co-op. Explore, fight monsters, loot dungeons, level up, unlock classes and become the ultimate Dungeon Knight!
Primordian
WHY THIS
Shares weapon progression and an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Reviewers of Vanishing Realms™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
These are the last days of the first planet, experience a vast ancient world and civilization as you travel through the twisting story mode. Strange and unique weapons, creatures and characters from the dawn of time and beyond.
Vengeful Rites
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Reviewers of Vanishing Realms™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Embark on an epic adventure designed exclusively for VR! Use your own hands to cast magic, fire bows and slice through your enemies on your quest to exact vengeance against the evil Dragore. Learn new spells and craft new gear to become the greatest Serafin Warrior of all time! Demo available.
Half-Life: Alyx
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Reviewers of Vanishing Realms™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
The Legend of Zuri
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Vanishing Realms™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
The Legend of Zuri is a "pick a path" style raunchy adventure with over 180 CG images. Will the Princess Zuri remain unsullied or will she experience something unmentionable? That depends on which paths you choose!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vanishing Realms™ at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Vanishing Realms™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Vanishing Realms™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vanishing Realms™.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vanishing Realms™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vanishing Realms™.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Vanishing Realms™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Vanishing Realms™.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Vanishing Realms™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Vanishing Realms™.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Vanishing Realms™.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Vanishing Realms™.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Vanishing Realms™.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Vanishing Realms™.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Vanishing Realms™
- Does Vanishing Realms™ work on Steam Deck?
- Vanishing Realms™ is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Vanishing Realms™ cost?
- Vanishing Realms™ is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vanishing Realms™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vanishing Realms™ are Shadow of Valhalla, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR, Shonen Adventure : The Dual Blades Hero.
- Who developed Vanishing Realms™?
- Vanishing Realms™ was developed by Indimo Labs LLC.
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