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Games like How to Say Goodbye

If How to Say Goodbye is your kind of game, the closest matches are O.W.L Projekt, Push The Cat with WASD and Maid For My Master — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, 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.

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About How to Say Goodbye: How to Say Goodbye is a beautiful narrative puzzle game inspired by picture books. Reorganize the environment and solve puzzles to help a group of ghosts on their quest to finally move on.

2022IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDWindows · macOSby Florian Veltman, Baptiste Portefaix, ARTE France
How to Say Goodbye — Steam game cover
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Art style is beautiful and storybook likeExplores grief with uncommon carePuzzles feel clever and satisfyingContemplativeEmotionalMelancholic

Players who liked How to Say Goodbye also play

Steam players who put hours into How to Say Goodbye 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. O.W.L Projekt

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    O.W.L Projekt is a 3D isometric puzzle game that will test your mind and logic skills. Controlling Elysion, a young being created in a mysterious experiment, you will face the enigmatic Watchers in a journey to escape and uncover secrets.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Push The Cat with WASD

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    A cat-pushing puzzle game where narratives are puzzle levels. With an emotional story and a little bit of 4th wall breaking. By pushing the cat, you are pushing the cat to think, to remember why they are stuck in this game...

    2024IndieCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Maid For My Master

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    A cute romance story between a young man and a maid who just so happens to be a robot. Is love enough to overcome the differences between man and machine?

    2025IndieCasual10.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. A Storied Life: Tabitha

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with How to Say Goodbye.

    Ranked #4 for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    A wholesome narrative puzzle game about the objects we leave behind and the stories they tell. Complete a loved one's damaged memoirs by exploring their home and packing away their things.

    2026IndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Gensokyo:Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.

    2026IndieAdventureCasual13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with How to Say Goodbye.

    Ranked #6 for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics

    2021IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Monument Valley 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with How to Say Goodbye.

    Ranked #7 for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    Discover illusionary pathways and delightful puzzles as you learn the secrets of The Sacred Geometry. Follow the heart warming story of Ro in her journey through motherhood. Rediscover independence through manipulating monuments and evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Pine Hearts

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with How to Say Goodbye.

    Ranked #8 for How to Say Goodbye fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    Pine Hearts is a wholesome and tender adventure about nostalgic journeys, overcoming loss, and helping others. Embark on a cozy hiking expedition to the sprawling Pine Hearts nature reserve and scale the mountain your father never managed to climb.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below How to Say Goodbye at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie with How to Say Goodbye.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    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 ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie with How to Say Goodbye.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under How to Say Goodbye on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

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 How to Say Goodbye.

    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. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    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 ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. 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 Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 How to Say Goodbye.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 How to Say Goodbye.

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. A Storied Life: Tabitha

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with How to Say Goodbye.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with How to Say Goodbye.

    A wholesome narrative puzzle game about the objects we leave behind and the stories they tell. Complete a loved one's damaged memoirs by exploring their home and packing away their things.

    2026IndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Monument Valley 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with How to Say Goodbye.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    Discover illusionary pathways and delightful puzzles as you learn the secrets of The Sacred Geometry. Follow the heart warming story of Ro in her journey through motherhood. Rediscover independence through manipulating monuments and evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Pine Hearts

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with How to Say Goodbye.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with How to Say Goodbye.

    Pine Hearts is a wholesome and tender adventure about nostalgic journeys, overcoming loss, and helping others. Embark on a cozy hiking expedition to the sprawling Pine Hearts nature reserve and scale the mountain your father never managed to climb.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about How to Say Goodbye

How much does How to Say Goodbye cost?
How to Say Goodbye is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to How to Say Goodbye?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside How to Say Goodbye are O.W.L Projekt, Push The Cat with WASD, Maid For My Master.
Who developed How to Say Goodbye?
How to Say Goodbye was developed by Florian Veltman, Baptiste Portefaix, ARTE France and published by ARTE France.

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 How to Say Goodbye.

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