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Vinci Games

Vinci Games (YC S22) is building the next generation of social multiplayer VR games. Our first title, Blacktop Hoops, became one of the highest-rated sports games on Meta Quest with a passionate global community and critical acclaim. Our second title, Ruffnauts, is already one of the fastest growing F2P releases of 2025 on Meta Quest, with 30K+ reviews at 4.9 stars in its first month of Alpha Early Access. Ruffnauts combines creature catching, chaotic physics, and Gorilla Tag style locomotion in

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #2280

Vinci Games (YC S22) is building the next generation of social multiplayer VR games. Our first title, Blacktop Hoops, became one of the highest-rated sports games on Meta Quest with a passionate global community and critical acclaim. Our second title, Ruffnauts, is already one of the fastest growing F2P releases of 2025 on Meta Quest, with 30K+ reviews at 4.9 stars in its first month of Alpha Early Access. Ruffnauts combines creature catching, chaotic physics, and Gorilla Tag style locomotion in

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Vinci Games is classified as Gaming and media from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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RuffnautsBlacktop Hoopschaotic physicsGorilla Tag style locomotioncreature catching
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Vinci Games

Gaming and media · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 65

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shared product terms: combine, second, generation, acces; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Looklive

match 33

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shared product terms: style, next, generation, global; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Contrario

match 33

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shared product terms: game, fastest, grow, month; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

HipFire Games

match 32

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shared product terms: multiplayer, game, combine, social

WePlayed

match 27

WePlayed is a community-driven video platform for all college sports. When the game ends, the story begins.

shared product terms: community, sport, game; same category: Gaming and media

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match 25

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shared product terms: style, month, acces; shared affiliation: Y Combinator