Trip to Vinelands similar games & best alternatives

Trip to Vinelands

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2016

Should you play it?

Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

What works

  • Challenging and addictive gameplay
  • Unique and dynamic soundtrack
  • Simple controls and concept
  • Low price and good value
  • Distinctive abstract art style

Things to keep in mind

  • High difficulty and frustration potential
  • Limited level variety and repetition
  • Lack of narrative depth
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Some issues with hitbox consistency

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • TTV2

  • Mini-Dead

  • Phoenix Force

  • Volgarr the Viking

  • BIT.TRIP RUNNER

  • Planes, Bullets and Vodka

More creative

Games that feels like Trip to Vinelands but with more room to create and customize

  • INK

  • APE OUT

  • It Steals

  • Swallow the Sea

  • Pepper Grinder

  • Shooting Hurts

More competitive

Games that feels like Trip to Vinelands but with more competition against others

  • Swarmlake

  • UBERMOSH Vol.7

  • UBERMOSH:BLACK

  • Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition

  • UBERMOSH Vol.3

  • UBERMOSH

Less violent

Games that feels like Trip to Vinelands but with less combat and destruction

  • Jump King

  • Monsti

  • Airscape - The Fall of Gravity

  • A Walk in the Dark

  • Blaite

  • Mechanic Escape

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • TTV2

  • UBERMOSH Vol.3

  • QUICKERFLAK

  • SWARMRIDERS

  • UBERMOSH Vol.7

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • 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.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Trip to Vinelands: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Creativity, Exploration.

Last update: 03/08/2026