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Games like VIFA

If VIFA is your kind of game, the closest matches are StarRupture, Nested Lands and Ars Notoria — 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 VIFA: Vifa is a survival-building game where each hero character brings unique talents that change how you play. Team up with friends, craft and build your base, deploy worker bots to gather resources, and assemble powerful mechs to defend your home.

ActionAdventureSimulationWindowsby NavySparkStudio
VIFA — Steam game cover

Players who liked VIFA also play

Steam players who put hours into VIFA 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. StarRupture

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Nested Lands

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Ars Notoria

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Ars Notoria is an open-world survival crafting game set in a rich fantasy world. Learn six distinct schools of magic, gather resources, build your base, expand your influence, and stand against the ever-shifting threat of the Enthralled. You are the one destined to change the kingdom.

    2025ActionAdventureSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dune: Awakening

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

    2025ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    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.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Green Hell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Grounded 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

    2025ActionAdventureEarly Access29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. SpaceCraft

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for VIFA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with VIFA.

    The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation26.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    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 ↗
  3. 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 ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Dune: Awakening

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

    2025ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Green Hell

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Grounded 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with VIFA.

    Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

    2025ActionAdventureEarly Access29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about VIFA

Does VIFA have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — VIFA supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to VIFA?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside VIFA are StarRupture, Nested Lands, Ars Notoria.
Who developed VIFA?
VIFA was developed by NavySparkStudio.

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 VIFA.

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