Games like Love, Sam
If Love, Sam is your kind of game, the closest matches are They Cry, FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water and Mists of Aiden — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its psychological manipulation feels real, short but impactful story and sound design amplifies dread. 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 Love, Sam: Alone in your room, you see a diary sitting on your desk. It wants to tell you a story: a story about a high school crush. A story about small town romance. A story about how everyone is against you and nobody will ever love you again.
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Steam players who put hours into Love, Sam 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.
They Cry
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Top pick for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
They Cry is a psychological horror following Luke seeking to find the source of a reoccurring dream taking over his life, only to find the former husk of his hometown.
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Love, Sam.
Second-strongest match for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Love, Sam.
“FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water” comes to Steam for the first time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the horror-adventure series FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO. The game is set on sacred Mt. Hikami, a site of many mysterious and terrifying incidents.
Mists of Aiden
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Love, Sam.
Third-strongest match for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
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WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Love, Sam.
Ranked #4 for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Maid of Sker
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Ranked #5 for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
Maid of Sker is a first-person survival horror, set in a remote hotel with a gory and macabre history from Welsh folklore. Brave the nightmares of the Quiet Ones. Do not panic…don’t even breathe!
Homesick
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Love, Sam.
Ranked #6 for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Love, Sam.
Ranked #7 for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
From The Darkness
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Ranked #8 for Love, Sam fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
From the darkness is a psychological horror game with a scary atmosphere, the game takes place in an old Soviet abandoned apartment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Love, Sam at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Love, Sam.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love, Sam.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~60% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Love, Sam on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love, Sam.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Love, Sam.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Love, Sam.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Love, Sam.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Love, Sam.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love, Sam.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Love, Sam
- How much does Love, Sam cost?
- Love, Sam is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Love, Sam?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Love, Sam are They Cry, FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water, Mists of Aiden.
- Who developed Love, Sam?
- Love, Sam was developed by Korean Linguistics Lab.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Love, Sam.
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