Games like Lurkers
If Lurkers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jolly Roger, Northanger Abbey and Sym.BIOS: Torn Asunder — picked from the ranked list below. 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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Steam players who put hours into Lurkers 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.
Jolly Roger
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Top pick for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
A short BL Visual Novel about romance and pirates.
Northanger Abbey
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Second-strongest match for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
Sym.BIOS: Torn Asunder
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Third-strongest match for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
Sym.BIOS: Torn Asunder is a visual novel with tricky moral choices and beautiful art. Its epic sci-fi story is told through vivid dialogue, featuring 7 main characters. All your decisions will have consequences down the line: will you succeed in your mission?
A Marble's Muse
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Ranked #4 for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.
To Find A Home
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Ranked #5 for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? Sharing a haunted house with a vampire, a werewolf, a ghost and a fellow witch with a same problem.
The Hayseed Knight
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Ranked #6 for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
Come hear the tale of Ader, or how a poor one-eyed farm boy who's got nothing left to eat but his dreams, accidentally becomes the greatest knight in the kingdom this fully voice-acted and animated picaresque visual novel!
Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
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Ranked #7 for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
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Ranked #8 for Lurkers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lurkers at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
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
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Priced ~50% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
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 ~75% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
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
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Priced ~83% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Lurkers.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Lurkers on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Lurkers.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
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
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
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.
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More from Ertal Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Ertal Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Burning Heart
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Another title from Ertal Games, the studio behind Lurkers. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
My Burning Heart is an erotic Yaoi BL Visual Novel set in a 1001 Nights world.
Chasing the Stars
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Another title from Ertal Games, the studio behind Lurkers. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
Chasing the Stars is a steampunk-ish multichoice BL Visual Novel. Tirs is a workaholic, determined young man with a dream: going to space. Will he achieve his goal while dealing with college life, the academic research community and its begrudged, and his awful love life?
Night and Day
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Another title from Ertal Games, the studio behind Lurkers. Shares Indie and Casual with Lurkers.
Night and Day is a BL dating sim Visual Novel about art, coming of age and jazz music.
Exes Assault!!
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Another title from Ertal Games, the studio behind Lurkers. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
A BL Bara Romantic Comedy Visual Novel
Jolly Roger
WHY THIS
Another title from Ertal Games, the studio behind Lurkers. Shares Indie with Lurkers.
A short BL Visual Novel about romance and pirates.
Frequently asked about Lurkers
- How much does Lurkers cost?
- Lurkers is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lurkers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lurkers are Jolly Roger, Northanger Abbey, Sym.BIOS: Torn Asunder.
- Who developed Lurkers?
- Lurkers was developed by Ertal Games.
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 Lurkers.
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