Games like School Years
If School Years is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rail of Möbius, CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel and Fallen Bride Mege — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campus exploration feels alive, emotional and melancholic. 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.
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Rail of Möbius
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with School Years.
Top pick for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with School Years.
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with School Years.
Second-strongest match for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Years.
"Love is both poison and cure, both knife and remedy." Set in 18th Century France, this is a gothic romance tale about loss, revenge and the different faces of love.
Fallen Bride Mege
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with School Years.
Mege is the childhood sweetheart of the protagonist. Lucky enough, he is able to marry Mege with everyone's blessing and lives a happy life. But the sudden news of layoffs broke his peaceful days.
Rubbings
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with School Years.
《诡拓》是一款中式民俗微恐风的悬疑推理游戏。你将扮演一名民俗杂志编辑，根据匿名信件中的拓片线索，深入封闭、神秘的睖睁村，这里多年来流传着失踪旅人和诡异祭祀的传说。通过亲历村志中的诡异故事，并在村庄中展开调查，你将逐步揭开埋藏数十年的真相。
我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with School Years.
Ranked #5 for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with School Years.
Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.' Is he merely a kindred spirit born of crisis, or a forgotten soul from your distant memories? A heart-pounding romance adventure across the dreamscape—begins now!
The Song of Saya
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with School Years.
Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.
Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ English Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with School Years.
Ranked #7 for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with School Years.
From renowned visual novel studio Key, this is the sequel to the highly acclaimed visual novel CLANNAD. Featuring a truly memorable continuation to Tomoya and Tomoyo's journey, Tomoyo After promises to draw you even further into CLANNAD's world.
Kinkoi: Golden Time
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with School Years.
Ranked #8 for School Years fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with School Years.
Welcome to Noble Private Academy, an institution that cultivates the wealthiest, most well-connected students in all of Japan! At this boarding school, one must be willing to accept all of its refined and dignified teachings or be met with strict opposition!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below School Years at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Years.
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 ~58% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with School Years.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie with School Years.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Years.
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 ~58% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie with School Years.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with School Years.
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 ~75% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Years.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under School Years on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with School Years.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 School Years.
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 School Years.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with School Years.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Years.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 School Years.
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 and Adventure with School Years.
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 School Years.
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.
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川建国同志想要连任/Comrade Trump's Re-election
WHY THIS
Another title from YEARS, the studio behind School Years. Shares Indie and RPG with School Years.
This game is for entertainment only. It does not represent any group or individual, nor does it represent or agree with any political views.A game simulating the re-election of Comrade Trump, let's write a hymn of loyalty.
东方异乡录 ~the Apocryphal Gensoukyou
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with School Years.
Another title from YEARS, the studio behind School Years. Shares RPG with School Years.
《东方异乡录 ~the Apocryphal Gensoukyou》是一款东方Project主题的短篇视觉小说游戏。主要讲述了在河城荷取的邀请下，雾雨魔理沙、爱丽丝·玛格特洛依德、帕秋莉·诺蕾姬三人在虚拟世界“Apocryphal Land”中冒险的爆笑喜剧故事。
东方裁判梦~Rookie Attorney Legendry
WHY THIS
Another title from YEARS, the studio behind School Years. Shares Indie and RPG with School Years.
"Touhou Saibanmu ~Rookie Attorney Legendry" is a puzzle-solving detective game based on the Touhou series. It mainly tells the story of Marisa Kirisame who, by chance, becomes a lawyer. The story is divided into three chapters, each with multiple endings.
Frequently asked about School Years
- How much does School Years cost?
- School Years is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to School Years?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside School Years are Rail of Möbius, CUPID - A free to play Visual Novel, Fallen Bride Mege.
- Who developed School Years?
- School Years was developed by YEARS and published by 电钮组.
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 School Years.
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