Games like Sucker for Love: First Date
If Sucker for Love: First Date is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sucker for Love: Date to Die For, Tokyo Re:Connect and Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its romance eldritch deities, atmospheric and funny. 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 →Sucker for Love: First Date is an indie visual novel developed by Akabaka and published by DreadXP that mashes together dating simulation and Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Released in 2022 and currently priced at $9.99, the game tasks players with performing ritual challenges to court eldritch entities, blending dialogue choices with time-pressure curses and hidden endings tied to player decisions. Checkpoint-based saving lets players explore different paths through the story. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, funny, and lighthearted, with the absurd premise of romancing eldritch deities providing unexpected whimsy alongside moments of psychological horror. The game is marked as playable on Steam Deck and has earned a 98% positive rating from over 2000 Steam reviews.
About Sucker for Love: First Date: Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!
Players who liked Sucker for Love: First Date also play
Steam players who put hours into Sucker for Love: First Date 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.
Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Top pick for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Avoid the fanatical cultists and survive dangerous rituals to escape the Black Woods with your life in this 90’s anime inspired visual novel!
Tokyo Re:Connect
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Spring is the season of first meetings. Begin your new life in the city of Tokyo as Shindou Touki. Meet many colorful characters, forge romances, and live out your high-school days, in this interactive story with cutting-edge artwork and a moving soundtrack.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Third-strongest match for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Ranked #4 for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Otome Legends
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Ranked #5 for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
WHY THIS
Shares hidden endings and an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Ranked #6 for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
SCP: Doki Doki Anomaly
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Sucker for Love: First Date.
SCP-8008-1 IS A HORROR DATING SIM WHERE THE BEST YOU CAN HOPE FOR IS SURVIVAL. SMOOCH SCP-173, SCP-682 AND EVEN SCP-096. DO NOT RUN THIS SOFTWARE WITHOUT CLASS-4 AUTHORIZATION.
The Song of Saya
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Sucker for Love: First Date fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sucker for Love: First Date at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
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 ~50% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Sucker for Love: First Date.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
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 ~50% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sucker for Love: First Date.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sucker for Love: First Date.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Sucker for Love: First Date.
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 Sucker for Love: First Date.
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 Sucker for Love: First Date.
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 Sucker for Love: First Date.
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 Sucker for Love: First Date.
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 Sucker for Love: First Date.
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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Akabaka
Other recommendable Steam games by Akabaka, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Another title from Akabaka, the studio behind Sucker for Love: First Date. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Avoid the fanatical cultists and survive dangerous rituals to escape the Black Woods with your life in this 90’s anime inspired visual novel!
Dread X Collection 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Another title from Akabaka, the studio behind Sucker for Love: First Date. Shares Indie with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Explore 12 horror games made in 10 days connected by a meta narrative experience you didn't expect. Step into a world of darkness and discover the secrets you didn't know were right beneath the surface. Find the tapes and unlock the mystery inside the Dread X Collection 2.
Sucker for Love: Prelude
WHY THIS
Another title from Akabaka, the studio behind Sucker for Love: First Date. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Preform a series of scary rituals to win over an eldritch cutie and win a smooch!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sucker for Love: First Date.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Scarlet Hollow
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
WHY THIS
Shares hidden endings and an atmospheric mood with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Sucker for Love: First Date.
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
Frequently asked about Sucker for Love: First Date
- Does Sucker for Love: First Date run on Steam Deck?
- Sucker for Love: First Date is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Sucker for Love: First Date cost?
- Sucker for Love: First Date is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sucker for Love: First Date?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sucker for Love: First Date are Sucker for Love: Date to Die For, Tokyo Re:Connect, Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut.
- Who developed Sucker for Love: First Date?
- Sucker for Love: First Date was developed by Akabaka and published by DreadXP.
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