Games like Trace of the Villa
If Trace of the Villa is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rite of Osiris, Nocturne Island Obscuria and Hunted Within: The Walls — 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 Trace of the Villa: Jin has spent years searching for his missing sister, pursuing leads that took him to a remote, decaying mansion where he recovered manifests and hints that indicate his sister may still be alive, somewhere at the end of the trail he is about to follow.
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Steam players who put hours into Trace of the Villa 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.
Rite of Osiris
WHY THIS
Top pick for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Trace of the Villa.
Something is hunting you in the dark. Descend into buried Egyptian tombs in a first-person psychological survival horror, where your only light is a dwindling candle and your only hope is whatever scraps you can scavenge and craft before it finds you.
Nocturne Island Obscuria
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Obscuria 2 is a horror and adventure experience created in Unreal Engine 5, where you will investigate an abandoned island with many secrets, mysteries and scares.
Hunted Within: The Walls
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Dive into a gripping first-person horror Survival game Where you're trapped in a terrifying towering maze. Explore, craft tools and Fight by day, watch out over night when the Darkness hunts you within the walls. Uncover the truth behind the walls and Escape, or become a part of the nightmare.
PENANCE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
PENANCE is a single-player experience where you play as Calen, a former ranger trapped in a place that feels familiar, yet wrong. Day and night levels bring different dangers, forcing you to fight with whatever you can find to survive and uncover the truth behind it.
Dualis
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Dualis is a sci-fi horror thriller whose story takes you to an underground research complex. You will have to fight not only for your life, but also to understand if you really exist. What is consciousness and personality are the questions you will have to ask yourself.
My Putrid Ponies
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Ranked #6 for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
A zombie ponies game where you have to survive with a shotgun.
Bughouse
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Ranked #7 for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Trace of the Villa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Trace of the Villa at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trace of the Villa.
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 ~67% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Action with Trace of the Villa.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Action with Trace of the Villa.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trace of the Villa.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trace of the Villa.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Trace of the Villa on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trace of the Villa.
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.
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 Trace of the Villa.
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 Action and Adventure with Trace of the Villa.
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 Action and Indie with Trace of the Villa.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Trace of the Villa.
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 Indie with Trace of the Villa.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace of the Villa.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trace of the Villa.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Trace of the Villa
- How much does Trace of the Villa cost?
- Trace of the Villa is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Trace of the Villa?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trace of the Villa are Rite of Osiris, Nocturne Island Obscuria, Hunted Within: The Walls.
- Who developed Trace of the Villa?
- Trace of the Villa was developed by Steadyturtle Co., Ltd..
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