Games like Placebo Love
If Placebo Love is your kind of game, the closest matches are Camp Palut, Scarlet Hollow and DEVIL'S LIMINAL — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emotional maturity and kindness, multiple distinct endings and atmospheric. 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 Placebo Love: A lonely young man is guided by a silent Muse to solve the mystery behind his two Doppelganger Soulmates.
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Steam players who put hours into Placebo Love 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.
Camp Palut
WHY THIS
Top pick for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Camp Palut is an otome-style mystery that can be completed in 2-4 hours. Play as Jess, a high school senior attending summer camp for the first time. Luckily there are cuties ready to get to know you! Choose between the four unique love interests or play them all to piece together the whole story.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Placebo Love.
Second-strongest match for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
DEVIL'S LIMINAL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Placebo Love.
Third-strongest match for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
To Find A Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
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 Outer Frame
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Dual role as detective and fixer, commanding the perfect cover-up from your desk. Intercept calls, stay ahead of the media, gather intel, and decide the fate of everyone involved before the masses catch on. Try again and again to reshape the narrative in this choice-driven mystery. Or you are fired.
Fearbonding
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a cozy mood with Placebo Love.
Ranked #7 for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
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.
I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Placebo Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Placebo Love
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To the Moon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Placebo Love.
Reviewers of Placebo Love cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Perso
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Placebo Love cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Perso is an atmospheric puzzle game. Collecting relics within each level will slowly reveal what and where you are. You will be in control of at least five cubes, each with different abilities. Use them all to find your way.
Persona 5 Royal
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Placebo Love.
Reviewers of Placebo Love cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Placebo Love at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
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 ~44% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
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 ~44% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
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 ~67% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Placebo Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Placebo Love.
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.
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 Placebo Love.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Placebo Love.
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 Placebo Love.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a cozy mood with Placebo Love.
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Placebo Love.
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.
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More from Twelve Tiles
Other recommendable Steam games by Twelve Tiles, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Last Word
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Placebo Love.
Another title from Twelve Tiles, the studio behind Placebo Love. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
In a society where having the last word means having power over others, a small party is disrupted by a gentleman who politely issues orders via one-way intercom.
Elemental Connection
WHY THIS
Another title from Twelve Tiles, the studio behind Placebo Love. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
Minimalist abstract puzzle board game about making elemental connections. Match tiles to create a satisfying mosaic.
Social Caterpillar
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Placebo Love.
Another title from Twelve Tiles, the studio behind Placebo Love. Shares Indie and Casual with Placebo Love.
The only hands-on puzzle adventure guaranteed to accurately and humanely teach Socialization to Introverts, heh heh!
Frequently asked about Placebo Love
- How much does Placebo Love cost?
- Placebo Love is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Placebo Love?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Placebo Love are Camp Palut, Scarlet Hollow, DEVIL'S LIMINAL.
- Who developed Placebo Love?
- Placebo Love was developed by Twelve Tiles.
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 Placebo Love.
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