Games like Life as Designed
If Life as Designed is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eldritch University, Starlight Vega and Sweet fantasy — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Life as Designed: A feeling of being typecast and a dwindling motivation to work leaves Cho Fukuda questioning her career as a freelance costume designer. To get out of this rut, Cho and her girlfriend search for a new calling she can devote herself to.
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Eldritch University
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Top pick for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
Kasumi Kawamura thought the nightmare was over, but it followed her to university. A strange affliction begins to affect the city, causing the victims to suffer terrible nightmares. At the same time, Kasumi's old wound starts to burn with a frightening power, making her wonder if she is to blame...
Starlight Vega
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Second-strongest match for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Play as Aria and romance the two sultry demon girls, Lyria and Scherza, or your best friend Melody in this yuri (girl x girl) visual novel where your choices will ultimately decide the fate of this spellbound girl.
Sweet fantasy
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Third-strongest match for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
Visual novel. Young and pretty nymph Pumpkin fell in love with her mistress.
Escape from the Princess
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Ranked #4 for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
Rosetta dreams of becoming a magician, but she isn't cut out for it. Fate brings her together with a mysterious witch, who is pursued by the princess herself. The witch promises to make Rosetta a magician in return for her help. But Rose falls in love with a witch who is clearly hiding something.
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master
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Ranked #5 for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master is a girls-love adventure game set in a small game studio.
Nurse Love Syndrome
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Ranked #6 for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
Meet cheerful Kaori Sawai, fresh out of nursing school, as she joins Yurigahama Hospital. Surviving a near death experience as a child left her with a desire to become a nurse and "healing hands" that let her relieve pain in patients just by touching them.
纯爱独白：小小 Purelove Monologue: Xiaoxiao
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Ranked #7 for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
宅男画师和美女程序员的甜美邂逅，不如一起做个独立游戏吧！等等，说好的纯爱呢，小三？黄毛？女装大佬？Σ(ﾟДﾟ)ｽｹﾞｪ!!
Love Ribbon
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Ranked #8 for Life as Designed fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
"Love Ribbon" is a yuri (girl x girl) visual novel about forbidden love between two sisters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Life as Designed at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Life as Designed on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Life as Designed on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Life as Designed on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Life as Designed on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
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.
Sally Face - Episode One
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Priced ~50% under Life as Designed on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~67% under Life as Designed on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Downwell
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Priced ~50% under Life as Designed on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Life as Designed.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
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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.
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Frequently asked about Life as Designed
- How much does Life as Designed cost?
- Life as Designed is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Life as Designed?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life as Designed are Eldritch University, Starlight Vega, Sweet fantasy.
- Who developed Life as Designed?
- Life as Designed was developed by Nightshade.
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