Games like The Vending Machine
If The Vending Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Visage, ROUTINE and Christmas Nightmare — 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 The Vending Machine: The Vending Machine is a survival stealth horror where you must sneak, run, and escape from an anomalous vending machine.
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Steam players who put hours into The Vending Machine 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.
Visage
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
ROUTINE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
Christmas Nightmare
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Vending Machine.
Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.
[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
Those Who Remain
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Vending Machine.
As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night in this story-driven first-person psychological-thriller.
Don't Be Afraid
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
Don't Be Afraid is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…
Maid of Sker
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Vending Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Vending Machine at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Vending Machine.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Vending Machine.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Vending Machine.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Vending Machine.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Vending Machine.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Vending Machine.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Vending Machine.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Vending Machine on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Vending Machine.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
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 The Vending Machine.
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 with The Vending Machine.
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 The Vending Machine.
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 with The Vending Machine.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Vending Machine.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Vending Machine.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Vending Machine.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Vending Machine.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about The Vending Machine
- How much does The Vending Machine cost?
- The Vending Machine is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Vending Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Vending Machine are Visage, ROUTINE, Christmas Nightmare.
- Who developed The Vending Machine?
- The Vending Machine was developed by Nookinya, Guildmaster Rin and published by Nookinya.
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 The Vending Machine.
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