Vaporum: Lockdown similar games & best alternatives

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Vaporum: Lockdown

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

Vaporum: Lockdown, a prequel to Vaporum, is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Follow the story of Ellie Teller, a scientist struggling to survive disastrous events that happened in the tower of Arx Vaporum.

What works

  • Challenging and rewarding puzzles
  • Tactical real-time combat with pause
  • Immersive steampunk atmosphere
  • Open-level design with secrets
  • Meaningful character progression

Things to keep in mind

  • High puzzle density can be tedious
  • Some puzzles require trial and error
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Instant-death traps cause frustration
  • Limited character customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Vaporum

  • Protocol

  • Operencia: The Stolen Sun

  • Red Matter 2

  • SCP: Fragmented Minds

  • Fallback

  • StarCrawlers

  • Tormented Souls 2

  • Kotama and Academy Citadel

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • The Devil Within: Satgat

  • You Will Die Here Tonight

  • Sands of Aura

If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Competence

    Vaporum
  • Escapism

    Vaporum
  • Exploration

    Steel Seed

Similarity map

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Vaporum: Lockdown: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Leadership, Status.

Last update: 25/07/2026