Free games like Melancholy Love
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Melancholy Love, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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It gets so lonely here
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Melancholy Love.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
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ERROR143
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Melancholy Love.
A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. 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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The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with Melancholy Love.
A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?
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Press Any Button
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Melancholy Love.
This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.
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Tell Me Why
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Melancholy Love.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
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one night, hot springs
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Melancholy Love.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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missed messages.
Free-to-play alternative to Melancholy Love — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Melancholy Love.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.