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Games like Venison County

If Venison County is your kind of game, the closest matches are CULTIC, DEAD TRASH and Anomalous — 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 Venison County: Grab your sawed-off, cast some sigils, and face the never ending nightmare head on in Venison County. Blast your old neighbors into undead venison giblets, master weapon specific active reloads, and limitlessly combine slain cultists' sigils for their sinful buffs (if you can withstand God's wrath).

ActionWindowsby Holly Oyster
Venison County — Steam game cover

Players who liked Venison County also play

Steam players who put hours into Venison County 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. CULTIC

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.

    2022ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. DEAD TRASH

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Years into a brutal lockdown, a once-thriving city lies in ruins, abandoned by its government and overrun by vicious, mindless infected. Grab your hammer, collect your nerves and enter the mayhem.

    2025Action2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Anomalous

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    A SHORT and sweet pixelated low fidelity 90s throwback hyper-fast action shooter. Survive and fight through a city overrun with manufactured monstrosities, biomass horrors, and a military authority trying to purge everything living. Heavy metal / techno soundtrack featuring BOD Music

    2024ActionIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.

    2023ActionIndie21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.

    2024Action24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Turbo Overkill

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. CRUEL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    A fast run and gun horror shooter with roguelike elements

    2025ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. HROT

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Venison County fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Venison County.

    HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Venison County.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Venison County.

    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 ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Venison County.

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Venison County.

    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 ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. CULTIC

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.

    2022ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.

    2023ActionIndie21.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.

    2024Action24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Turbo Overkill

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Venison County.

    Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!

    2023ActionIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Venison County

What games are most similar to Venison County?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Venison County are CULTIC, DEAD TRASH, Anomalous.
Who developed Venison County?
Venison County was developed by Holly Oyster.

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 Venison County.

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