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Games like Alma

If Alma is your kind of game, the closest matches are Teaching Gender-Affirming Care, Beginning of the Rain and Sasha's Stupid Coffee Shop — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Alma: Alma is an interactive narrative that captures the tension of work-life balance for healthcare workers. Play as Alma, a caring mother and pediatric nurse, who must tend to both aspects of her life. Alma is a story of self-care and the struggle to find balance in an imbalanced life.

2021IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDWindows · macOSby Francesca Palamara
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Players who liked Alma also play

Steam players who put hours into Alma 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. Teaching Gender-Affirming Care

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Alma.

    An educational visual training simulation that follows transgender and gender-diverse patients at a primary care clinic. Step into the role of a new provider as you prescribe and optimize hormone therapy, counsel patients around surgical affirmation, navigate care considerations for adolescents

    2026SimulationFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  2. Beginning of the Rain

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    "Beginning of the Rain" is a Visual Novel Simulation Game based on colorful illustrations and rich OSTs. It tells you the stories about many thing you can feel only as a student.

    2023IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Sasha's Stupid Coffee Shop

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    Start from the bottom and work your way to the top of selling the world's best coffee!

    2023IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. 舔狗模拟器

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Alma.

    "Dog Licking Simulator" is a relaxing and casual love-making game. Players need to interact with their goddess in the game, and often give the goddess various cosmetics, luxury goods, takeaways, milk tea, etc. to increase themselves Feelings with the goddess.

    2021IndieRPGCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Russpuppy Kid Books

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Alma.

    Your child will explore interactive stories, enjoy engaging reading games, and even bring their own book to life. Foster creativity, vocabulary, and a love for learning. Encourage the budding reader and writer in your young one. Experience the thrill of learning!

    2023AdventureSimulationCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Somnium Eleven

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    Somnium Eleven is a text-based, dating sim RPG where you find romance as you try to explore the world, meet characters, and survive through a series of competitive trials to unlock your fate.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Evil Shogun

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Evil Shogun® is our first iOS mobile game, and now on macOS! The fictitious story is set during the Japanese Shogunate period. You are a samurai hired by a wicked shogun to do all sorts of evil at his behest. What will be your punishment in the end? There are three different endings.

    20211.00 USDSteam ↗
  8. Fragment: A Story in Growing

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Alma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    Your wife passed away before the bell ring of the millennium. The sun still rises, you are together with your daughter Wei ran.It’s the path of growth for both of you. "Fragment" is a new form of interactive narrative game. Step into the time machine and grow up again with Wei Ran!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure5.84 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alma at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alma.

    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 ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Alma.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Alma.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Alma.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Alma.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Alma on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Alma.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Alma.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alma.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Alma.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Alma.

    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 ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Alma.

    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.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alma.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Alma

How much does Alma cost?
Alma is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Alma?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alma are Teaching Gender-Affirming Care, Beginning of the Rain, Sasha's Stupid Coffee Shop.
Who developed Alma?
Alma was developed by Francesca Palamara and published by Galaxy Cereal Studios LLC.

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 Alma.

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