Games like VELATO
If VELATO is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cave Crusade, Crownbreakers and Runeveil — 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 VELATO: VELATO is a Poker-Bluff Roguelike Deckbuilder where players build a Joker-driven economy engine, manipulate AI opponents through bluffing, and survive escalating table pressure across each run.
Players who liked VELATO also play
Steam players who put hours into VELATO 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.
Cave Crusade
WHY THIS
Top pick for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
Classic roguelike deckbuilder designed for quick runs. Upgrade your cards, discover powerful artifacts, and master the Wheel of Fortune to maximize your rewards.
Crownbreakers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
Tyrants keep the magical city of Cascade in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding everyone else's soul into profit. ✊ENOUGH! Crash into their districts and build your deck as you push forward. Use your champions and cards to pummel some demonic billionaires in this turn-based card-game brawler.
Runeveil
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
Sequencer Roguelike. Enter the Arena as an elemental wizard, craft powerful rune chains, and break the game with wild artifact synergies. Beat all trials, defeat the Sin Kings, and ascend to godhood. Magic is chaos, order is power!
THORNSPELL
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
Embody a magical florist by placing plants strategically in your garden, and watering them to score points. THORNSPELL is a garden-building roguelike where you will create and unleash chains of magical effects, dispelling the corruption spreading through your home.
Tabulo
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
Position your pieces carefully to max out your score in this Balatro-inspired chess roguelike. Enhance your pieces, purchase powers, and win bonuses from optional challenges, but be careful - your board only has so much room.
Spinny Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
The slot machine roguelike. Each time you hit the SPIN button monsters creep closer. KILL 'em! LOOT 'em! EAT 'em! Focus on spells or synergies between symbols. Spin to DIE or spin to SURVIVE!
As We Descend
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for VELATO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below VELATO at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with VELATO.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with VELATO.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with VELATO.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with VELATO.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Indie with VELATO.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with VELATO.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Indie with VELATO.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under VELATO on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with VELATO.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 and Casual with VELATO.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with VELATO.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with VELATO.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Casual with VELATO.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with VELATO.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with VELATO.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with VELATO.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with VELATO.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about VELATO
- How much does VELATO cost?
- VELATO is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to VELATO?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside VELATO are Cave Crusade, Crownbreakers, Runeveil.
- Who developed VELATO?
- VELATO was developed by VELATO and published by Infantex.
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 VELATO.
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