Games like Mission: It's Complicated
If Mission: It's Complicated is your kind of game, the closest matches are Herotome, Pixel Puzzle Makeout League and Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, emotional and lighthearted. 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 Mission: It's Complicated: Mission: It’s Complicated is a narrative-based, visual novel where you match super-awesome superheroes to go on missions during the night and dates during the day. The more compatible the pair of superheroes are, the more likely that they will fall in love and save the world.
Players who liked Mission: It's Complicated also play
Steam players who put hours into Mission: It's Complicated also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Herotome
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mission: It's Complicated.
Be a hero or be a menace! Herotome is a choice-heavy visual novel with a colorful cast of characters. Seize the moment to find love and worldwide renown, or use your gift of gab to annoy your heroic peers.
Pixel Puzzle Makeout League
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Second-strongest match for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
Solve pixel puzzles, date superheroes, and save the day! Dating sim meets puzzle game in this romantic comedy adventure.
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Third-strongest match for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
Arcade Spirits
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Ranked #4 for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Mission: It's Complicated.
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Ranked #5 for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. Are you ready? Hi ready, I'm Dad.
Winds of Change
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Ranked #6 for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
Dispatch
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building and a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Ranked #7 for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Ranked #8 for Mission: It's Complicated fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
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More from Schell Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Schell Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Until You Fall
WHY THIS
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Fantasy and synthwave collide in this physically active VR sword fighting game. Grow stronger as you battle through an awesome neon environment and strike down magic-infused monstrosities in this hack-and-slash roguelite. Fight. Fall. Rise Again.
Among Us 3D
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
The definitive social deduction party game in three dimensions! Can the Crewmates survive, or will Impostors take over? Roles, Emergency Meetings, deception, sabotages, tasks: enjoy your favorite brand of chaos from the original Among Us with a 3D twist.
Among Us 3D: VR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
The definitive social deduction party game in virtual reality! Can the Crewmates survive, or will Impostors take over? Roles, Emergency Meetings, deception, sabotages, tasks: enjoy your favorite brand of chaos from the original Among Us with a VR twist.
I Expect You To Die
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Test your problem-solving skills in this virtual reality escape-the-room puzzle game. Play as a secret agent armed with telekinetic abilities on a mission to stop Zoraxis, an evil corporation with plans for world domination.
I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
WHY THIS
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Become an elite super spy ready for espionage, explosives, and gadgets galore. This popular escape-the-room VR franchise is back with more ingenious puzzles, cunning villains, and dangerous locales.
I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine
WHY THIS
Shares mission based progression with Mission: It's Complicated.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Outwit your most cunning adversary to date in the latest installment of this popular, spy-themed VR puzzle series. Wield new gadgets, visit action-packed locales, and wear custom disguises as you dive back into the world of espionage in this escape room game.
Orion Trail
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Dare to travel the absurd and dangerous Orion Trail, where only the luckiest, bravest, and most stubborn captains will make it all the way to the end. Become famously incredible or incredibly dead in this single player choose-your-own-space-adventure!
Water Bears VR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Another title from Schell Games, the studio behind Mission: It's Complicated. Shares Indie and Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
Free trapped water bears by rerouting, remixing, and redirecting water flows in a sunny 3D island environment. This charming VR game will have the entire family giggling as they solve puzzles and frolic with these loveable creatures.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pixel Puzzle Makeout League
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
Solve pixel puzzles, date superheroes, and save the day! Dating sim meets puzzle game in this romantic comedy adventure.
Dispatch
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building and a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mission: It's Complicated.
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mission: It's Complicated.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Mission: It's Complicated.
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
Frequently asked about Mission: It's Complicated
- Is Mission: It's Complicated free to play?
- Yes — Mission: It's Complicated is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Mission: It's Complicated?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mission: It's Complicated are Herotome, Pixel Puzzle Makeout League, Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers.
- Who developed Mission: It's Complicated?
- Mission: It's Complicated was developed by Schell Games.
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