Games like Vena
If Vena is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nuclear Engineer Tycoon, CircuitVeil and Tumble Tavern — 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 Vena: An automation roguelike where every run fits in one sitting. Place hexagonal tiles to grow a production organism, roll dice in the shop to buy new ones, and pick perks that shape your build. Survive nine phases as the Nexus's hunger outpaces you, then break the economy and do it all differently.
Players who liked Vena also play
Steam players who put hours into Vena 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.
Nuclear Engineer Tycoon
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Top pick for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Vena.
Build a nuclear power plant and manage reactors, generators, and turbines, producing energy to keep the city lit and prevent reactor explosions. Earn resources, research nuclear technologies, build larger and more modern reactors, refine uranium, and create a nuclear energy empire.
CircuitVeil
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vena.
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Tumble Tavern
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vena.
A push-your-luck dice game where one throw can take everything. Build a six-die loadout, carry three runestones and read the rival across the table. Bank too early and you lose the race. Bank too late and you lose the lot.
Project Oasis
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Ranked #4 for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Vena.
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Ruin and Rebirth
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Vena.
Ruin and Rebirth is a fantasy open-world factory building game with creature taming and breeding. In this playable creation myth, bring life back to a surreal, shattered, post-divine apocalyptic world where the gods have died.
Facetier
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Ranked #6 for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Vena.
Match-3 with an automation twist. Every gem you clear is a resource. Store, sort, and route them into machines that extract more gems or match the board for you.
CasualSteam ↗Lumen Nexus: Core
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Ranked #7 for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vena.
A sci-fi factory automation game where resources move as light instead of belts. Build production chains, expand across asteroid islands, trade your resources, research new systems, and keep your growing factory flowing under rising pressure.
Cloudlings
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Ranked #8 for Vena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vena.
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Vena.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Vena.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vena.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vena.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vena.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vena.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Vena.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Vena
- What games are most similar to Vena?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vena are Nuclear Engineer Tycoon, CircuitVeil, Tumble Tavern.
- Who developed Vena?
- Vena was developed by loerting.
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 Vena.
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