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Games like Death Live

If Death Live is your kind of game, the closest matches are Short Stories Collection of Class Tangerine, Dream Ending and Epiphyllum in Love — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, contemplative and dark. 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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About Death Live: 有的人活着他已经死了,有的人死了他还活着。还有的人……早就麻木,忘了自己到底是死是活——死亡直播间Plus!橘子班灰色短篇视觉小说合集,由《死亡直播间》《假期第三天》等作品组成。

2019IndieAdventureCasual0.54 USDWindowsby 橘子班
Death Live — Steam game cover
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Sharp critique of internet culture and fameShort but impactful stories with deep themesStreamers death experience ability drives the plotBleakContemplativeDark

Players who liked Death Live also play

Steam players who put hours into Death Live 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.

  1. Short Stories Collection of Class Tangerine

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    Short Stories Collection of Class Tangerine is a collection of five Visual Novels by indie-game team "Class Tangerine".

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation3.19 USDSteam ↗
  2. Dream Ending

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Death Live.

    Second-strongest match for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    This is a small tale from the end. The leftovers of mankind are destined to perish as the Arks break orbit. Suddenly, however, she's making me ask her out, an invitation to face the apocalypse together... a short but exquisite visual novel, "Dream Ending" is humanity's last love story.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual2.35 USDSteam ↗
  3. Epiphyllum in Love

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Death Live.

    Third-strongest match for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    Final chapter of the trilogy. In a world where memory can be controlled, everyone is selling their souls. "I" have left everything behind, except the girl named Yin who still remains in my mind. At the end of my life, should I die with a beautiful fantasy, or go in search of sad memories of her?

    2020IndieAdventureCasual2.35 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cross Princess

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Death Live.

    Ranked #4 for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    Single route visual novel. Belle is actually a boy, an accident lets him and a bright girl named Bambi begin to live together, a warm and healing friendship + love story.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual1.94 USDSteam ↗
  5. Bagel Love Story

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    A light-hearted and enjoyable short romance VN! The protagonist, Fan Tong, struggles to lose weight in hopes of finding a job, but the journey is far from smooth. Until one day, a cute and sunny girl named Bagel comes into his life, kickstarting a story of weight loss, cross-dressing, and romance!

    2024IndieAdventureCasual3.27 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Leaflet Love Story

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Death Live.

    Ranked #6 for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    A normal male engineering student who used to be successful, is now languishing at the bottom in his English classes. A pretty girl who is said to be unapproachable, and is very proud of herself. How will the romance between the two of them develop?

    2018IndieAdventureRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Gaokao.Love.100Days

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Death Live.

    Ranked #7 for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    Getting a girl-friend before National College Entrance Exam, I know it's crazy, but from today, we will face everything together.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulation5.69 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cross Maid

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Death Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    互相认错性别的两人,机缘巧合之下开始同居生活 产生羁绊到互相依恋再到自我怀疑,温馨欢乐的短片小故事

    2021IndieAdventureCasual1.94 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Death Live.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 Casual with Death Live.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Death Live.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Death Live.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Live.

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Death Live.

    Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

    2015AdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Death Live.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Death Live

How much does Death Live cost?
Death Live is listed on Steam at 0.54 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Death Live?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Death Live are Short Stories Collection of Class Tangerine, Dream Ending, Epiphyllum in Love.
Who developed Death Live?
Death Live was developed by 橘子班 and published by NVLMaker.

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 Death Live.

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