Games like Heart of Summer
If Heart of Summer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cliché - Critical Change, Jest Messters and Love's Time Cycle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and mysterious. 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 Heart of Summer: Live the anime school life—just like on TV!—filled with off-the-wall comedy, sunshine, and GIRLS!
Players who liked Heart of Summer also play
Steam players who put hours into Heart of Summer 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.
Cliché - Critical Change
WHY THIS
Top pick for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
When a game is rated M for MANLY! Raise Muki, a muscular girl with the heart of a maiden in any way you want! Guide her so she can be with her beloved prince! Will things go horribly wrong, or horribly right? It is all up to you!
Jest Messters
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
A comedy-mystery otome (GxB) visual novel full of dad jokes, cringe puns, and an unexpected mystery! Come and join the pun!
Love's Time Cycle
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
A grand sci-fi romance healing masterpiece. Overnight, the beautiful girl around you have falling in love with you. Just as you think you can sink into this sweet trap, the one you love suddenly bids you farewell. In this endless cycle, will you be able to reclaim the love you’ve lost?
One Night Liar
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
【一夜限りの騙し合いADV】 殺された女性のふりをして豪華客船での同窓会に潜入して"嘘"を武器に事件を解決する。
Anicon - Animal Complex - Cat's Path
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Heart of Summer.
Ranked #5 for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
A romance, comedy, fantasy Visual Novel - filled with adventures, misadventures, adorable animals, brother conflicts, circus cleaning, collecting puzzle pieces, and more - all in one package!
Wet steps
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
Have a relationship with a charming priestess! An urban fantasy short and brisk visual novel with elements of slavic mythology.
不心动才有鬼
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
With sudden powers, meet 6 unique girls in an extraordinary campus romance. Campus beauty, teacher, maiden, or girl next door... sweet or dangerous, all have secrets. Don't Blush is a 1st-person FMV romance where your choices shape everyone's fate. Beyond boundaries, beyond mere sparks.
Hatoful Boyfriend
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Heart of Summer.
Ranked #8 for Heart of Summer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heart of Summer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
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 ~69% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
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 ~69% under Heart of Summer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Heart of Summer.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heart of Summer.
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 and Simulation with Heart of Summer.
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 with Heart of Summer.
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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Frequently asked about Heart of Summer
- How much does Heart of Summer cost?
- Heart of Summer is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heart of Summer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heart of Summer are Cliché - Critical Change, Jest Messters, Love's Time Cycle.
- Who developed Heart of Summer?
- Heart of Summer was developed by Akehabara.
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 Heart of Summer.
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