Games like Desert of Vice
If Desert of Vice is your kind of game, the closest matches are Amnesia: The Dark Descent, CARRION and SUNLESS SEA — 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 Desert of Vice: Solve your own murder in this horror text adventure with choice dependent endings. Explore an isolated desert town to figure out who murdered you - and why.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Top pick for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
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.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
SUNLESS SEA
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Observation
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
The Last Door - Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Crazy cultists. Cthulhu. A talking cat. Gibbous takes you on an expansive, traditionally animated, hand-painted adventure. Play as three protagonists and explore a lushly rendered Lovecraft-inspired world, unraveling ancient conspiracies. A comedy cosmic horror adventure made in Transylvania!
Eldritch
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Desert of Vice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desert of Vice at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desert of Vice on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desert of Vice on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desert of Vice on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Desert of Vice.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desert of Vice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desert of Vice.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desert of Vice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desert of Vice.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desert of Vice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desert of Vice.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desert of Vice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desert of Vice.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Pathologic 3: Quarantine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.
Alpha Polaris : A Horror Adventure Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Alpha Polaris is an oldschool adventure game focusing on slow-burning character driven horror and environmental themes. It draws inspiration from such sources as Inuit legends and Cthulhu mythos.
Doorways: Old Prototype
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga
Curse of the Old Gods
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Desert of Vice.
A mystery adventure game set in a present-day Lovecraftian universe.
The Land of Crows
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
"The Land of Crows" is a side-scroller gothic story adventure game, inspired by the literary works of the Masters of pre-romantic, romantic and gothic literature (E.A. Poe, J.W. Goethe, A. Mickiewicz, J. Slowacki) and lovecraftian mythos.
The 111th Soul
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Embark on a touching and creepy journey about sacrifice and how sometimes a person pays for the sins of another
Cyrano Story
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desert of Vice.
Born from an Alternate Reality Game experience created by Alice & Smith in 2019, Cyrano Story is a complex puzzle game designed to ascend to intergalactic forces and give insight into the backstory of Funcom’s cosmic horror game Moons of Madness.
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Frequently asked about Desert of Vice
- How much does Desert of Vice cost?
- Desert of Vice is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desert of Vice?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desert of Vice are Amnesia: The Dark Descent, CARRION, SUNLESS SEA.
- Who developed Desert of Vice?
- Desert of Vice was developed by Karolis Dikcius.
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 Desert of Vice.
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