Games like Venture
If Venture is your kind of game, the closest matches are StarDune, Campwood and Blind 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.
Get personalized picks →About Venture: Two astronauts awaken on an alien planet. With only minutes of oxygen left, they must work together to scale staggering cliffs, study strange lifeforms, and search for a way home in this atmospheric co-op survival adventure.
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Steam players who put hours into Venture 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.
StarDune
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Top pick for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Venture.
Build, Fly, and Survive. StarDune combines tactile, modular construction with seamless space travel. Reshape vibrant voxel planets, automate your outposts, and explore a procedurally generated solar system alone or with friends in a world that’s yours to mold.
Campwood
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Second-strongest match for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Venture.
Campwood is a co-op wilderness survival game filled with mystery, danger, and fun. Your goal is to escape this place. And remember – your greatest enemy is the darkness.
Blind Descent
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Third-strongest match for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Venture.
Blind Descent is an open-world survival adventure that unveils the mysteries of the Martian depths. Play solo or with friends in 4-player co-op as you search for the missing team. Adapt to survive by building custom tools, upgrading the base, and/or mutating in this bizarre alien world.
Subnautica 2
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Ranked #4 for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Arctico
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Ranked #5 for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Venture.
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Grounded
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Ranked #6 for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Satisfactory
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Ranked #7 for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Venture.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Phoning Home
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Ranked #8 for Venture fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Venture.
A tale of survival about two shipwrecked robots - ION and ANI - on their life-defining journey in this unique genre-mix of exploration, puzzle and survival.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Subnautica 2
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.
Arctico
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Venture.
Explore Arctico with your dog sled, kayak, and up to 3 friends! Build and customize your base camp, gather resources and samples, set up labs, and take good care of your dogs in this peaceful island.
Grounded
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Venture.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Frequently asked about Venture
- Is Venture free to play?
- Yes — Venture is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Venture have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Venture supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Venture?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Venture are StarDune, Campwood, Blind Descent.
- Who developed Venture?
- Venture was developed by Venture Studios and published by USC 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 Venture.
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