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Games like After School

If After School is your kind of game, the closest matches are GOLDO: Lost Goblin, Noitapeli and 飢界 — 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 After School: After Schoolは、放課後の学校に忘れ物を取りに来た主人公に降りかかる恐怖を体験するゲームです。主人公は帰宅した際に大量の忘れ物をしたことに気づき、学校に引き返します。昼間の学校とは雰囲気の違う夜の学校に違和感を感じながらも学校を探索する。そこで出会った襲いかかる恐怖を避けながら自身の忘れ物を学校中から見つけ出し、自転車で無事に帰ることができればクリアとなります。現代日本の寂れた木造校舎を舞台としたステージを存分に楽しんでください。

2021IndieAdventure2.99 USDWindowsby Taiga
After School — Steam game cover

Players who liked After School also play

Steam players who put hours into After School 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. GOLDO: Lost Goblin

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    Guide Goldo, a lost goblin, in this short, surreal stealth adventure: sneak past hostile adventurers, uncover bizarre treasures, and unravel the dungeon's dark mystery!

    IndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Noitapeli

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    First person horror game, you have a special watch in your hand which shows the distance to the noita. Find a bottle which noita needs and bring it back. Use gun, collect mushrooms and avoid noita to find the bottle.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. 飢界

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    『飢界』は不気味な異界を探索し、脱出を目指すホラーゲーム。異界の住人に食べられてはいけません...。

    2025ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Caution Ahead: Part 1

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    Play as John, a search and rescue officer who must escape captivity from a secluded lodge. The game blends exploration with escape-room challenges and stealth-based survival.

    2024IndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Platform 8

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Tunnels of Despair

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    Tunnels of Despair is an atmospheric game with horror and survival elements, in which you are to explore the tunnels of an abandoned subway system, find a way out and escape the underground.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Lazaret

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.

    2024IndieAdventure10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. This is the Zodiac Speaking

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for After School fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    Story-driven FPP mystery thriller-horror with stealth and detective modes based on facts from the world-famous story of Zodiac, a never-captured American serial killer.

    2020IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    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. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with After School.

    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 ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After School.

    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 ~67% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After School.

    "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. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After School.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After School.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After School on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After School.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with After School.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Supper

    WHY THIS

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

    The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Control, I'm Not Coming Back

    WHY THIS

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

    Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. DOGWALK

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

    2025IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Taiga

Other recommendable Steam games by Taiga, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Escape from the Village

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Taiga, the studio behind After School. Shares Adventure with After School.

    You are on your way home from a holiday and your car breaks down and you are stranded in the middle of nowhere. You get out of the car, explore the surroundings, and try to get home. Enjoy this escape game set in a deserted mountain village in modern Japan.

    2021Adventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Pandemic 1993

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Taiga, the studio behind After School. Shares Adventure with After School.

    Survival horror set in Japan! Fight off various creatures, search for your missing wife and child, and escape from the town safely!

    2022ActionAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Tuya

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Taiga, the studio behind After School. Shares Indie and Adventure with After School.

    A frightening experience in the Japanese countryside!

    2023IndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Selling Souls

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Taiga, the studio behind After School. Shares Adventure with After School.

    Something is wrong with this store

    2024Adventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. GhostlyRyokan

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Taiga, the studio behind After School. Shares Adventure with After School.

    An abandoned inn where lost souls wander, your decision will determine its outcome.

    2024Adventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Homecoming -KITAKU-

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Taiga, the studio behind After School. Shares Adventure with After School.

    Uncover the truth hidden in the darkness with your own hands.

    2024Adventure2.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about After School

How much does After School cost?
After School is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to After School?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside After School are GOLDO: Lost Goblin, Noitapeli, 飢界.
Who developed After School?
After School was developed by Taiga.

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 After School.

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