Games like Childhood Friends
If Childhood Friends is your kind of game, the closest matches are Marshmallow Imouto Succubus, The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart and NEKO-MIMI SWEET HOUSEMATES Vol. 1 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability for different endings, 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 Childhood Friends: Yukihisa was an ordinary student when his childhood friend, Shiho, proposes that they practice being boyfriend and girlfriend to gain confidence in their future relationships. What will they learn from this practice about themselves and each other?
Players who liked Childhood Friends also play
Steam players who put hours into Childhood Friends 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.
Marshmallow Imouto Succubus
WHY THIS
Top pick for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Childhood Friends.
Tsukikawa Keisuke had a strange dream. That dream involved his younger sister but instead of her usual, innocent self, she had lust in her eyes. So he finds out that a succubus lurks within her! How will he choose between his innocent sister and the allure of a lustful succubus?!
The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Childhood Friends.
Second-strongest match for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Childhood Friends.
Once upon a time, after his mother passed away, a boy called Nora felt all alone in the world. He spent every day with his unique and kind hearted friends until one fateful day, he had a chance encounter with a princess from the Netherworld.
NEKO-MIMI SWEET HOUSEMATES Vol. 1
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Childhood Friends.
Third-strongest match for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Childhood Friends.
What is one to do when face to face with a cat-eared, winged angel? Life will never be the same when the angel, Mint, moves in and becomes your new housemate. Follow Mint, a popular girl from the doujin circle "Animal Herb," as she stars in this brand new, heart-warmingly comedic game!
Highschool Romance
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an emotional mood with Childhood Friends.
Ranked #4 for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
Can you find love as the only boy in an all-girls school? Find out, in this slice-of-life visual novel game with multiple endings.
Fantasy Tavern Sextet -Vol.3 Postlude Days-
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings with Childhood Friends.
Ranked #5 for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Childhood Friends.
The final chapter of the 3-part series! The harem antics get even crazier when a maid and a priestess join the fray! Even a certain legendary hero makes an appearance! The harem rom-com set in a fantasy tavern welcomes its final chapter!
Select Oblige
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an emotional mood with Childhood Friends.
Ranked #6 for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Childhood Friends.
Select Oblige is the latest title from the popular Japanese visual novel brand Madosoft. It features character design and artwork by renowned illustrator Hiyo Yuzuna, with the story crafted by Shoukei Wakaba. The main heroines are voiced by Hana Akino, Kanau, Ren Sagami, and Yuuka Nanakusa.
LOVEPICAL-POPPY!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an emotional mood with Childhood Friends.
Ranked #7 for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Childhood Friends.
From renowned Japanese visual novel brand SMEE, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!, the ultimate moege, arrives on Steam! Made for SMEE’s 15th anniversary and celebrating 150k+ sales, it keeps the brand’s signature sweetness while adding life-sim gameplay and a unique story progression system.
Summer Pockets
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Childhood Friends.
Ranked #8 for Childhood Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Childhood Friends.
From the creators of Angel Beats! and CLANNAD, Key, comes their latest emotional, award-winning journey. Follow protagonist Takahara Hairi as he travels to the secluded island Torishirojima, where he rediscovers what it means to enjoy summer vacation.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Childhood Friends at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Childhood Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Childhood Friends on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Childhood Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Childhood Friends on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
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 ~60% under Childhood Friends on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Childhood Friends on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
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...
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 Casual with Childhood Friends.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from Orcsoft
Other recommendable Steam games by Orcsoft, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Life as a Cult Leader
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings with Childhood Friends.
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
After you lose your job and apartment, you're left with nothing. Forced to spend the night on a cold park bench, you curse your fate, only for a beautiful woman calling herself Shima Itsuki to appear and ask you to be a cult leader...
Lessons with Chii-chan
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Childhood Friends.
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
Kouta, a timid university student is tasked with tutoring the outgoing yet dense Chieri to help her get through her exams. However, they couldn't be more different. Find out what hijinks ensue in Lessons With Chii-chan!
The Voluptuous DEMON QUEEN and our Shoebox Apartment Life
WHY THIS
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
Start your new life in a shoebox apartment with the sudden appearance of a big-breasted Demon Queen!
I Wanna Fuck my Mom's Best Friend
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings with Childhood Friends.
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Casual with Childhood Friends.
Finally, Naoki has the apartment all to himself! With the perfect fap material ready, he's in for a marathon session. Lost in the sauce, beating it to the image of his mom’s best friend, who else should catch him in the act but the very object of this fapper's fantasy!?
Zero Chastity: A Sultry Summer Holiday
WHY THIS
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
Zero Chastity: A Sultry Summer Holiday brings you a summer of sex under the sun with four unique & sexy heroines with art from legendary hentai artist, Mizuryu Kei! This game is based off the popular eromanga series of the same title and is both fully-voiced and uncensored.
Iku Iku Succubus
WHY THIS
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
Succubi have arrived on Earth, and it's your job to teach them humanity's ways! Your job will be anything but easy as you unravel hidden ambitions, explore human culture, and serve as tour guide for Earth's tasty delicacies. Class is starting in the magical visual novel world of Iku Iku Succubus!
St. Yariman's Little Black Book ~Complete~
WHY THIS
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
The tale of a divorcee and five sex-crazed beauties. A full remake of the 2011 Japanese edition, St. Yariman’s saintly ladies have been redrawn by the legendary Sian. Included is a bonus chapter with a brand new heroine, Aya! Experience this classic for the first time with this definitive edition.
The Kinky Kitsune and The Tantalizing Tanuki
WHY THIS
Another title from Orcsoft, the studio behind Childhood Friends. Shares Adventure with Childhood Friends.
Recently divorced and looking for a change of pace from hectic city life, you move to the countryside for some much needed R&R. Little did you know that would mean raunchy romps with your new neighbors! Settle down with a couple of kinky, tantalizing goddesses in this sexy rom-com!
Frequently asked about Childhood Friends
- How much does Childhood Friends cost?
- Childhood Friends is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Childhood Friends?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Childhood Friends are Marshmallow Imouto Succubus, The Princess, the Stray Cat, and Matters of the Heart, NEKO-MIMI SWEET HOUSEMATES Vol. 1.
- Who developed Childhood Friends?
- Childhood Friends was developed by Orcsoft and published by Sekai Project.
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 Childhood Friends.
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