Games like V.E.N.T.
If V.E.N.T. is your kind of game, the closest matches are POOLSIDE MEMORY, HORROR TALES: The Wine and Amnesia: The Dark Descent — 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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Steam players who put hours into V.E.N.T. 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.
POOLSIDE MEMORY
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Top pick for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
A first-person chase horror set in endless liminal poolrooms. Scattered memories, multiple endings — and a world that rebuilds itself into a new nightmare every run.
HORROR TALES: The Wine
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Second-strongest match for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
Explore a post-pandemic fictional Mediterranean island and confront your fears! Immerse yourself in a seemingly abandoned city and struggle to find a precious Banydebosc red wine bottle to cure your loved ones. But be aware; your Nemesis is hunting you. Indie Jumpscares included! :D
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Third-strongest match for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
ROUTINE
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Ranked #4 for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
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.
The Light Keeps Us Safe
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Ranked #5 for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with V.E.N.T..
THE LIGHT KEEPS US SAFE is a procedurally-generated apocalypse in which only The Light can save us. Use stealth and evasion to avoid terrifying machines that patrol the desolate world, and employ the powers of Light to unpick their deadly traps.
Bughouse
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Ranked #6 for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
Outlast
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Ranked #7 for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
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Ranked #8 for V.E.N.T. fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
Free alternatives
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with V.E.N.T..
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with V.E.N.T..
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with V.E.N.T..
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 V.E.N.T..
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 Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
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 V.E.N.T..
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with V.E.N.T..
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about V.E.N.T.
- What games are most similar to V.E.N.T.?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside V.E.N.T. are POOLSIDE MEMORY, HORROR TALES: The Wine, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
- Who developed V.E.N.T.?
- V.E.N.T. was developed by Jonathan Rune.
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 V.E.N.T..
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