Games like Vortex: The Gateway
If Vortex: The Gateway is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Forest, Project Castaway and Subnautica: Below Zero — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration reveals story fragments, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Vortex: The Gateway: Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Players who liked Vortex: The Gateway also play
Steam players who put hours into Vortex: The Gateway 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.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Top pick for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Project Castaway
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Second-strongest match for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Subnautica: Below Zero
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Third-strongest match for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Ranked #4 for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Survival: Fountain of Youth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Ranked #5 for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Stranded Deep
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Ranked #6 for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Subterrain
WHY THIS
Shares resource scarcity and an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Ranked #7 for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Fade to Silence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Ranked #8 for Vortex: The Gateway fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Vortex: The Gateway
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The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Reviewers of Vortex: The Gateway cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Vortex: The Gateway cross-mention this title as a similar play.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Vortex: The Gateway.
Reviewers of Vortex: The Gateway cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vortex: The Gateway at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vortex: The Gateway.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
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 ~81% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
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 ~88% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Vortex: The Gateway on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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 Vortex: The Gateway.
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 Vortex: The Gateway.
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 Vortex: The Gateway.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Vortex: The Gateway.
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 Vortex: The Gateway.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vortex: The Gateway.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vortex: The Gateway.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Vortex: The Gateway
- How much does Vortex: The Gateway cost?
- Vortex: The Gateway is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vortex: The Gateway?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vortex: The Gateway are The Forest, Project Castaway, Subnautica: Below Zero.
- Who developed Vortex: The Gateway?
- Vortex: The Gateway was developed by StormCube 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 Vortex: The Gateway.
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