Games like VANADEN
If VANADEN is your kind of game, the closest matches are Choomby, Infinite Mansion and 1 HP DUNGEON — 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 VANADEN: Vanaden is a first-person survival horror game set in a cursed, fortress-like labyrinth. Hide from monsters, solve puzzles, and navigate shifting corridors where stealth and every decision determine your survival.

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Choomby
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Top pick for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with VANADEN.
CHOOMBY - an online game of bees vs. spider! One powerful player hunts, while the others must unite to survive and strike back. Enjoy diverse maps and modes: infection tag, trap-filled mazes, football, elimination mini-games, and base capture (PvP / PvPvE).
Infinite Mansion
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Second-strongest match for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VANADEN.
Infinite Mansion is a Lovecraftian Roguelike with a strong focus on mystery and exploration. Send randomized investigators into an procedurally generated Mansion to fight other worldly horrors and solve mysteries in this stylized take on the world and lore of H.P. Lovecraft.
1 HP DUNGEON
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Third-strongest match for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with VANADEN.
1 HP DUNGEON is an action game where everything has 1 HP. One hit can defeat an enemy or end your run. Recover lost spells, collect weapons and souls, and explore a new dungeon every run. Play with Emma, friends, or in Horde mode.
Sunny's Odyssey
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Ranked #4 for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VANADEN.
Embark on a journey with Sunny and her magical pets to conquer the Celestial Tower, a once peaceful domain now taken over by an enigmatic figure. Explore the dungeon, solve puzzles, and win turn-based battles with real time mechanics to lift the curse that looms over your village.
ASHWAKE
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Ranked #5 for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with VANADEN.
Travel through the creature and anomaly filled Abyss in this hardcore first person survival experience that takes place inside Chelyabinsk-40 after the Kyshtym Disaster. Scavenge for resources, avoid anomalies, hide from Ash Storms, and complete quests to uncover the truth. Will you Survive?
Metrophobia
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Ranked #6 for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with VANADEN.
Trapped in an abandoned metro, you must escape an ever-repeating station filled with anomalies and lurking horrors. Face over 100 unique disturbances and terrifying beings as you struggle to break free.
BURNED HORIZONS
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Ranked #7 for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VANADEN.
A gritty, turn-based tactical sandbox set in 2002. No XP grind. No class rails. No buy-your-way skill trees. // 'They said it wasn't our war. So we made it ours.'
The Secret of Island of Fear
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Ranked #8 for VANADEN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with VANADEN.
Experience a high-tension, first-person horror journey where you take control of a character stranded on a dark, mysterious island. Surrounded by eerie entities and chilling secrets, you must uncover the truth hidden within the shadows. Can you solve the island's mystery and survive the nightmare?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with VANADEN.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with VANADEN.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with VANADEN.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with VANADEN.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
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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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with VANADEN.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with VANADEN.
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.
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with VANADEN.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Frequently asked about VANADEN
- What games are most similar to VANADEN?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside VANADEN are Choomby, Infinite Mansion, 1 HP DUNGEON.
- Who developed VANADEN?
- VANADEN was developed by Moonzen Digital (Indie 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 VANADEN.
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