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Games like Blake: The Visual Novel

If Blake: The Visual Novel is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Wolf Among Us Remastered, Man I Just Wanna Go Home and Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its minigames feel unexpectedly fresh, atmospheric 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 Blake: The Visual Novel: Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.

2021IndieCasualFree to playMetacritic 82Windows · macOSby Ori Mees
Blake: The Visual Novel — Steam game cover
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Art style perfectly matches cyberpunk noir toneChoices drastically alter fates and dialogueMinigames feel unexpectedly freshAtmosphericContemplativeMysterious

Players who liked Blake: The Visual Novel also play

Steam players who put hours into Blake: The Visual Novel 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. The Wolf Among Us Remastered

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.

    2026ActionAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  2. Man I Just Wanna Go Home

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!

    2024IndieCasual2.09 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Third-strongest match for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

    2021IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Neo Cab

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Ranked #4 for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

    2019IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 2064: Read Only Memories

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Ranked #5 for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Overboard!

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and a whimsical mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Ranked #6 for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

    2021IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Loretta

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Ranked #7 for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Antioch: Scarlet Bay

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Ranked #8 for Blake: The Visual Novel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Blake: The Visual Novel

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Yesterday

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Reviewers of Blake: The Visual Novel cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Yesterday is a thrilling and dark mystery from the masters of adventure, Pendulo Studios.

    2012Adventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Reviewers of Blake: The Visual Novel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Reviewers of Blake: The Visual Novel cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.

    2022Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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

  1. Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

    2021IndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Overboard!

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and a whimsical mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

    2021IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Loretta

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Blake: The Visual Novel.

    Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.

    2023IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Blake: The Visual Novel

Is Blake: The Visual Novel free to play?
Yes — Blake: The Visual Novel is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
What games are most similar to Blake: The Visual Novel?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blake: The Visual Novel are The Wolf Among Us Remastered, Man I Just Wanna Go Home, Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure.
Who developed Blake: The Visual Novel?
Blake: The Visual Novel was developed by Ori Mees and published by LegendOri Productions.

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 Blake: The Visual Novel.

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