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Games like Venus: Improbable Dream

If Venus: Improbable Dream is your kind of game, the closest matches are Melancholy Love, VIDEOVERSE and Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its choices meaningfully affect outcomes, soundtrack amplifies emotional impact and contemplative. 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.

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About Venus: Improbable Dream: Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.

2021IndieCasual12.99 USDWindows · macOSby Borealis
Venus: Improbable Dream — Steam game cover
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Choices meaningfully affect outcomesHandles mental health and disabilities respectfullySoundtrack amplifies emotional impactContemplativeEmotionalMelancholic

Players who liked Venus: Improbable Dream also play

Steam players who put hours into Venus: Improbable Dream 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.

  1. Melancholy Love

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Top pick for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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?

    2021IndieAdventureRPG8.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. VIDEOVERSE

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Second-strongest match for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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…

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Third-strongest match for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!

    2022IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Last Days

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Ranked #4 for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    The gods have blessed New Canaan for four hundred years, and everyone - including Sister Ginsetsu - thought it would go on forever, until the day Ginsetsu met the gods of New Canaan. Since then, the story between the maiden who calls herself a god, and the maiden who will become a god has begun.

    2021IndieRPGCasual1.59 USDSteam ↗
  5. 花奴令 Huanu Poems

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Ranked #5 for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Huanu Poems is a multi-ending love adventure game. As a photographer, carrying the secret of being a bloodline inheritor of HuaNu Town, you will take lovely Peach to run a B&B, encounter gentle Cloudia. Your choices will affect the direction of the story.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. WHITE ALBUM: Memories like Falling Snow

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Ranked #6 for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    The classic visual novel from AQUAPLUS that launched one of Japan's most beloved franchises, WHITE ALBUM is a story of love in many forms. Will a couple cling together, or drift apart on the cold wind? The album of their relationship will be as white as snow, and as poignant.

    2023AdventureSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Press Any Button

    WHY THIS

    Shares a poignant mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Ranked #7 for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    This video game realized how boring it had been and now is trying its best to fix that.

    2021IndieCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Ranked #8 for Venus: Improbable Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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'.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Venus: Improbable Dream at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under Venus: Improbable Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. VIDEOVERSE

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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…

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!

    2022IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Venus: Improbable Dream.

    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'.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Venus: Improbable Dream

How much does Venus: Improbable Dream cost?
Venus: Improbable Dream is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Venus: Improbable Dream?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Venus: Improbable Dream are Melancholy Love, VIDEOVERSE, Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll.
Who developed Venus: Improbable Dream?
Venus: Improbable Dream was developed by Borealis.

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 Venus: Improbable Dream.

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