Games like Vast Sands
If Vast Sands is your kind of game, the closest matches are Farther West, Mafia Hero: Streets of Survival and Age of Sail — 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 Vast Sands: Fight you way through the mutated wasteland to try to save a crazy scientist. Over run by Mutated Bugs, you must uncover the truth of what happened to a scientist and cure him before it's to late.
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Farther West
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Top pick for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vast Sands.
Farther West is a Roguelite hack-and-slash set in Journey to the West. Slay hordes of demons, unlock maps and heroes like Sun Wukong, and defeat bosses by finding their weaknesses. Attacks cause dismemberment and elemental explosions. Some dialogue may offend.
Mafia Hero: Streets of Survival
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Second-strongest match for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
Survivors-like game with ONLINE CO-OP (1–4 PLAYERS). The man who had always played by the rules was dead.! Mafia Hero: Streets of Survival is an online co-op auto-shooter roguelite for up to 4 players. Build your criminal empire, craft powerful builds, and battle massive bosses.
Age of Sail
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Third-strongest match for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
Pirate boats shooting cannons on the open ocean? Check. Docks that work as safe zones to sell loot and upgrade your ship? Check. Multiplayer? Check. Enjoy this game on your own or with friends! Many ai pirate ships to shoot, or steal the loot of other players before they sell it!
A.V.E.N.A.
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Ranked #4 for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
Pilot disposable combat drones through the Primal Portal in a sci-fi action roguelike. Customize your drone, fight through various missions, recover research data and alien technology to enhance your drone setup for the next session.
Lunaris
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Ranked #5 for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
Lunaris is a fast-paced sci-fi top-down roguelite shooter: survive escalating enemy waves, stack powerful passive and active abilities, craft wild build synergies, and turn the arena into a neon storm of lasers and explosions. Every run feels fresh and intense.
Disaster Plan Z
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Ranked #6 for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
Disaster Plan Z is a hardcore single-player shooting survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Players need to utilize various weapons along with their unique skills, construct different buildings, and continuously upgrade to resist the invasion of countless zombies and mutant creatures.
Heroes of Retribution
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Ranked #7 for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
A rogue-like RPG set in a ruined world. Take on the role of a tank commander. Discover other heroes and factions. Upgrade your tank, acquire new skills, and find forgotten relics in this devastated world. Choose your side, get stronger and become humanity's savior.
Doom Reignite
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Ranked #8 for Vast Sands fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
The apocalypse crisis erupts again, and mutated zombies threaten the only humans left. As a member of the Atlas Doomsday Squad, explore survival in a Roguelike world with a Lowpoly art style, gather resources, refine gear, and seek a path forward for humanity.
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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 Vast Sands.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vast Sands.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vast Sands.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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 Vast Sands.
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 Vast Sands.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vast Sands.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Frequently asked about Vast Sands
- What games are most similar to Vast Sands?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vast Sands are Farther West, Mafia Hero: Streets of Survival, Age of Sail.
- Who developed Vast Sands?
- Vast Sands was developed by Vault Relay 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 Vast Sands.
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