Games like Valken
If Valken is your kind of game, the closest matches are Midnight Oil: Prologue, Executioner and Sniper Elite 5 — 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 Valken: VALKEN is a realistic tactical solo shooter where you play as a lone agent infiltrating a secretive military organization. Explore varied environments, make hard choices, and face the brutal consequences in an intense, unforgiving campaign.
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Midnight Oil: Prologue
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Top pick for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
A horror action experience with brutal melee combat, tactical gunplay, and environmental puzzles. Players must survive hostile, atmospheric locations where every encounter demands quick reflexes, smart resource management, and careful exploration.
Executioner
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Second-strongest match for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Valken.
The Executioner is a 1-4 player online coop shooting survival game. There are a large number of extremely heinous criminals waiting to be executed in the overcrowded prison. In order to survive, they will rush towards you and try to kill you. If you don't kill them, you will be the one killed.
Sniper Elite 5
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Third-strongest match for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.
Sniper Elite 4
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Ranked #4 for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
Discover unrivalled sniping freedom in the largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built. Experience tactical third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots across gigantic levels as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism.
Gears 5
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Ranked #5 for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
Easy Red 2
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Ranked #6 for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Valken.
Experience massive battles with infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on large destructible open-world maps. Equip yourself, coordinate with your squad, and fight through World War II in singleplayer, co-op, or multiplayer!
Daymare: 1998
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Ranked #7 for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
GUN™
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Ranked #8 for Valken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Valken.
When life robs Colton White of all that matters, the only thing left he can trust is his GUN. From award-winning developer, Neversoft, and accomplished screenwriter, Randall Jahnson (The Mask of Zorro, The Doors), GUN follows Colton on his quest for discovery as he seeks to exact vengeful justice on those who have wronged him.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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 Adventure with Valken.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Valken.
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.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Valken.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Sniper Elite 4
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
Discover unrivalled sniping freedom in the largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built. Experience tactical third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots across gigantic levels as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism.
Easy Red 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Valken.
Experience massive battles with infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft on large destructible open-world maps. Equip yourself, coordinate with your squad, and fight through World War II in singleplayer, co-op, or multiplayer!
Daymare: 1998
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Valken.
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
Frequently asked about Valken
- What games are most similar to Valken?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Valken are Midnight Oil: Prologue, Executioner, Sniper Elite 5.
- Who developed Valken?
- Valken was developed by Revane Studio.
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 Valken.
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