Games like Love in the distance
If Love in the distance is your kind of game, the closest matches are 大鹏 - The Roc, The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty and Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, emotional and melancholic. 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 Love in the distance: A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?
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大鹏 - The Roc
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Love in the distance.
Top pick for Love in the distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Due to work, Wu Shengyou was forced to leave home for high school in a big city. The sensitive, introverted poet felt out of place with classmates.As they grew closer, he seemed her only friend, yet appeared to completely misunderstand her inner thoughts...
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a melancholic mood with Love in the distance.
Second-strongest match for Love in the distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Love in the distance.
Third-strongest match for Love in the distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?
恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Love in the distance.
Ranked #6 for Love in the distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
《恋爱绮谭~不存在的真相~》是一款文字冒险游戏。 初到江城的顾唯，意外成为了一起社会新闻的主人公。凶险的都市中，他需要在混乱的舆论和虚假的情报中找到唯一的真相，也需要在两名各有千秋的少女间完成自我的抉择。秋去冬来，覆盖城市的厚厚积雪下，究竟掩藏着什么样的秘密......
Lost in Secular Love
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Love in the distance.
Ranked #7 for Love in the distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.
Shanghai Summer
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Love in the distance.
Ranked #8 for Love in the distance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Love in the distance at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love in the distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
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?
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love in the distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love in the distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love in the distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love in the distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love in the distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Love in the distance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
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 Love in the distance.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Love in the distance.
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 Love in the distance.
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 Love in the distance.
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 with Love in the distance.
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 Love in the distance.
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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Frequently asked about Love in the distance
- How much does Love in the distance cost?
- Love in the distance is listed on Steam at 2.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Love in the distance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Love in the distance are 大鹏 - The Roc, The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty, Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring.
- Who developed Love in the distance?
- Love in the distance was developed by Level-Buster Studio.
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