Games like Dead Wishes
If Dead Wishes is your kind of game, the closest matches are How To Date A Magical Girl!, Seduce Me 2: The Demon War and Roommates — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is consistently unsettling, bleak and contemplative. 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 Dead Wishes: In this chaotic world, you must adapt - either to forgive or survive. A thriller-romance indie visual novel/dating simulator.
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How To Date A Magical Girl!
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Dead Wishes.
Top pick for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Dead Wishes.
You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?
Seduce Me 2: The Demon War
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Seduce Me 2: The Demon War is the sequel to the popular free-to-play otome game, Seduce Me the Otome. It follows the story of Mika Anderson as she is suddenly thrown into the Abyssal Plains right before she is about to be married to one of the five Incubi Brothers featured in the first game.
Roommates
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Join Max or Anne in Latin House for their first college year! They'll juggle classes, jobs, and social life with four dorm mates, potentially sparking some extracurricular fun. As Anne you can romance Max, Isabella, Dominic and Rakesh. As Max, romance Anne, Isabella, Sally and Rakesh.
Animal Lover
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dead Wishes.
Ranked #4 for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Evil forces have turned these five hunky beefcake time-displaced boys into animals! You've got to help cure them and maybe even fall in love! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance! No furries, despite the title! A dating sim by Wilson Taylor, Maia Gross and Travis Tohill.
Blush Blush
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
You are responsible somehow for a curse that befalls 12 unfortunate hawt dudes. Now you have to find them and break the curse with your love!!
sweet pool
WHY THIS
Shares route based progression and a bleak mood with Dead Wishes.
Ranked #6 for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
As madness and horror devour his world, can Youji find hope amid the nightmare? Experience a bond deeper and darker than love in this unforgettable visual novel.
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Dead Wishes.
Ranked #7 for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dead Wishes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~ is a visual novel game designed for female audiences. It was distributed by the publisher, Cheritz, in English, Korean, and Japanese on Nov. 11th, 2013 and now it is available on Steam.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dead Wishes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dead Wishes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Dead Wishes.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dead Wishes.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dead Wishes.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Dead Wishes
- Does Dead Wishes work on Steam Deck?
- Dead Wishes is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Dead Wishes cost?
- Dead Wishes is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dead Wishes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dead Wishes are How To Date A Magical Girl!, Seduce Me 2: The Demon War, Roommates.
- Who developed Dead Wishes?
- Dead Wishes was developed by VIOLET.
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