Games like Melancholy Love
If Melancholy Love is your kind of game, the closest matches are Symbiotic Love - Yuri Visual Novel, Foul Play - Yuri Visual Novel and Harmony: The Fall of Reverie — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 Melancholy Love: Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Players who liked Melancholy Love also play
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Symbiotic Love - Yuri Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares perspective switching and an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Top pick for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
Symbiotic Love is a coming-of-age Yuri Visual Novel set in an All Girls' High School. What has fate in store for love so perfect, so symbiotic, that they could only live, and perish together?
Foul Play - Yuri Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Second-strongest match for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Third-strongest match for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Ranked #4 for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Melancholy Love.
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
VIDEOVERSE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Ranked #5 for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Demonheart
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Melancholy Love.
Ranked #6 for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Melancholy Love.
Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.
南栀 Unwavering love
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Ranked #7 for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
《南栀》是一款百合向视觉小说游戏，讲述了在前作（夜永 Eternal Love）剧情发生一年半之后，聆花女子学院中的少女们成长的故事。
Demonheart: The Ice Demon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Ranked #8 for Melancholy Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Melancholy Love.
Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Melancholy Love at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Melancholy 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 Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Melancholy 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 Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Melancholy 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 Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Melancholy Love.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy 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 Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Melancholy 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 Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Melancholy 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 Melancholy Love on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Melancholy 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 with Melancholy 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. Shares Adventure with Melancholy Love.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Melancholy Love.
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 and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Melancholy 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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Melancholy Love.
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
VIDEOVERSE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Melancholy Love.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Frequently asked about Melancholy Love
- How much does Melancholy Love cost?
- Melancholy Love is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Melancholy Love?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Melancholy Love are Symbiotic Love - Yuri Visual Novel, Foul Play - Yuri Visual Novel, Harmony: The Fall of Reverie.
- Who developed Melancholy Love?
- Melancholy Love was developed by White Dew Games and published by Kikai Digital.
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