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Games like Love Tavern

If Love Tavern is your kind of game, the closest matches are Love Tavern 2: Beastmen Kingdoms, Alice's Burger Shop and Halloween Store Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and unsettling. 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 Love Tavern: After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

2023ActionStrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Secret Labo
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Players who liked Love Tavern also play

Steam players who put hours into Love Tavern 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. Love Tavern 2: Beastmen Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Love Tavern.

    After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different staffs from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Alice's Burger Shop

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    It is a simulation game that manages a burger shop. Take orders and serve food without making customers wait. Research the cuisine and devise decorations to enhance the appeal of the restaurant. Pay attention to the feelings of the staff, manage the shop efficiently, and aim for a famous shop.

    2023IndieSimulationCasual8.39 USDSteam ↗
  3. Halloween Store Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love Tavern.

    🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dungeon Overseer

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Love Tavern.

    Ranked #4 for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

    2021StrategySimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Mars Attracts

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love Tavern.

    Ranked #5 for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Love Tavern.

    Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

    2025ActionStrategyAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Casino Resort Tower

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Love Tavern.

    Ranked #6 for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

    2023StrategySimulationEarly Access19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. TasteMaker

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love Tavern.

    Ranked #7 for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love Tavern.

    TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Tenants

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love Tavern.

    Ranked #8 for Love Tavern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

    2022IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Love Tavern at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Love Tavern.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Action with Love Tavern.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Action with Love Tavern.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love Tavern.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love Tavern.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Love Tavern.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Love Tavern on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Love Tavern.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Love Tavern.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  3. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Love Tavern.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Love Tavern.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Meteor 60 Seconds!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Love Tavern.

    Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?

    2018ActionIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Secret Labo

Other recommendable Steam games by Secret Labo, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love Tavern.

    Another title from Secret Labo, the studio behind Love Tavern. Shares Action and Strategy with Love Tavern.

    By accident, you broke the seal of the mysterious book, which contains an enormous magical power that allows users to control any Yokai by defeating them and recording their names. This godly power is too much which alerts all the Yokai. You must find your own way to defeat them and survive.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Cyber Crush 2069

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love Tavern.

    Another title from Secret Labo, the studio behind Love Tavern. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love Tavern.

    You, as a ripperdoc (self-proclaimed), have started your new clinic in a corner of Little China. With your cyberware fixing skill, will it help you to impress the girl?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Love n Dream

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Secret Labo, the studio behind Love Tavern. Shares Indie and Casual with Love Tavern.

    《Love n Dream》 is a puzzle game with many kawaii girls. You will be transformed into multiple roles to approach all of our girls. Your job is to unlock their desired, characteristic, favorite, hate by using your skill to solve all the puzzles and understand more about them.

    2020IndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Love n Dream: Virtual Happiness

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Love Tavern.

    Another title from Secret Labo, the studio behind Love Tavern. Shares Indie and Casual with Love Tavern.

    《Love n Dream: Virtual Happiness》is a card-based puzzle game with RPG components. Your job is to lead different girls to advance their adventure levels in a Virtual Reality Game.

    2020IndieCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love Tavern.

    Another title from Secret Labo, the studio behind Love Tavern. Shares Action and Strategy with Love Tavern.

    After defeating Fujin and Raijin, Hiro and his allies found peace at his grandfather’s house. One day, Sanbi sensed a distant summon. After tracing the energy, they discovered it came from her true form—the nine-tailed fox. Determined to help, Hiro and his friends set off on a new journey.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie8.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Love Tavern 2: Beastmen Kingdoms

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Secret Labo, the studio behind Love Tavern. Shares Action and Indie with Love Tavern.

    After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different staffs from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Lust: Zenyh City

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Secret Labo, the studio behind Love Tavern. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love Tavern.

    《Eternal Lust: Zenyh City》is a match-3 puzzle game with dating elements. Your job is to complete all the missions and adventures around you to help all the girls on your journey.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Love Tavern

Does Love Tavern run on Steam Deck?
Love Tavern is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Love Tavern cost?
Love Tavern is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Love Tavern?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Love Tavern are Love Tavern 2: Beastmen Kingdoms, Alice's Burger Shop, Halloween Store Simulator.
Who developed Love Tavern?
Love Tavern was developed by Secret Labo.

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 Tavern.

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