Games like LINGERING
If LINGERING is your kind of game, the closest matches are Reanimation Scheme, Miss Sasami is Losing Her Mind! and Wednesdays — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its 13 endings encourage replayability, atmospheric 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 LINGERING: An LGBTQ+ Mystery Visual Novel with comic panel style aesthetics and pixel styled backgrounds. Join The Heart Breachers operatives as they navigate the world of desire, treachery, and emotional turmoil while learning to understand lofty concepts such as friendship, hope, and belief in oneself.
Players who liked LINGERING also play
Steam players who put hours into LINGERING 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.
Reanimation Scheme
WHY THIS
Top pick for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
An otome game and romance visual novel. Step into the shoes of the necromancer, Raenelle. Meet a colorful cast of characters, fail to summon the spirits of the dead, unravel mysteries, and maybe — just maybe — fall in love.
Miss Sasami is Losing Her Mind!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
A light-hearted lesbian romance between a tired office lady and a gyaru foxgirl. Make choices as Sasami and pursue a relationship with the cheerful Mirai, or risk ruining it.
Wednesdays
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with LINGERING.
Third-strongest match for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with LINGERING.
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Paradise
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative, multiple endings and an emotional mood with LINGERING.
Ranked #4 for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with LINGERING.
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.
Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with LINGERING.
Ranked #5 for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
See You Later
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
There are so many things I want to do with the rest of my life. Like dreaming with you, laze around with you, look at the moon, eat rice with you, go on the biggest wedding trip to Antarctica, and most importantly - say goodbye to you.
A Normal Lost Phone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with LINGERING.
Ranked #7 for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.
Arcadia Fallen
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle minigames and an atmospheric mood with LINGERING.
Ranked #8 for LINGERING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with LINGERING.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below LINGERING at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
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 ~62% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
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 ~52% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie with LINGERING.
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 ~62% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
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 ~62% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie with LINGERING.
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 ~77% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie with LINGERING.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under LINGERING on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with LINGERING.
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 and Casual with LINGERING.
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.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with LINGERING.
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 Casual with LINGERING.
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 LINGERING.
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 and Casual with LINGERING.
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 Casual with LINGERING.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about LINGERING
- How much does LINGERING cost?
- LINGERING is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to LINGERING?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside LINGERING are Reanimation Scheme, Miss Sasami is Losing Her Mind!, Wednesdays.
- Who developed LINGERING?
- LINGERING was developed by Ceylon Entertainment.
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 LINGERING.
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