Games like Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire
If Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nope Nope Nurses, The Voluptuous DEMON QUEEN and our Shoebox Apartment Life and Netorare Sankaku Kankei — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, dark and mysterious. 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 Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire: Saimin Gakushū is a school adventure visual novel by popular Japanese developers Dark One! Soichi Akano acquires a sleep-learning machine through a dubious online shopping site, and plans to imprint his knowledge on the female students and teachers at his school.
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Nope Nope Nurses
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Shares an unsettling mood with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Top pick for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Hospital ≠ hospitality...?! You're stuck on a medical bed with nurses tending to your every need. The only problem? Their personalities... Experience life with demons in white dresses in this visual novel misadventure!
The Voluptuous DEMON QUEEN and our Shoebox Apartment Life
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Start your new life in a shoebox apartment with the sudden appearance of a big-breasted Demon Queen!
Netorare Sankaku Kankei
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
坂上大智には幼なじみで今もなお交流がある二人がいる。 一人は親友の堀涼真。 そしてもう一人は…初恋の女性でもある松浦朔夜。 彼女と破局したばかりで飢えていた涼真は朔夜を強引にセフレにする。 後日、大智もセフレの輪に加わる事になり‥‥三人の乱れたセフレ性活が始まる。
Faulty Apprentice
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Ranked #4 for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
In this world of magic, monsters, and mystery, the fate of Stars Reach Castle will be determined by you, the Faulty Apprentice! A story-rich visual novel/dating with Light Ecchi on the side. (Free 3 DLCs)
LOVE³ -Love Cube-
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Things are about to change for Ichinari Tsuzurigi, an adult comics artist living in poverty. Blessed by his "Fates", he is facing a turning point of his career, and three women are going to live together with him...
Projekt: Passion - Season 1
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A futuristic adult visual novel filled with sex, comedy, drama, violence, and more sex. Go on a fun-filled space adventure and develop relationships with a diverse cast of characters with their own personalities and motivations.
Secret Pie (Adult Version)
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Secret story between the mansion manager and three women
Maid Mansion
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Ranked #8 for Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
A young man inherits his grandfather's mansion on one condition: He can never fire the head maid. Now he is the lord of the manor, free to pursue all his perverse desires...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~95% under Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
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?
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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.
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. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
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.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
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.
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Dark One!
Other recommendable Steam games by Dark One!, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Nope Nope Nurses
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Another title from Dark One!, the studio behind Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Hospital ≠ hospitality...?! You're stuck on a medical bed with nurses tending to your every need. The only problem? Their personalities... Experience life with demons in white dresses in this visual novel misadventure!
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nurses
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an unsettling mood with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Another title from Dark One!, the studio behind Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
The thrilling final installment of Dark One!'s hit visual novel series! Hapless protagonist Yamada is once again at the mercy of the tender depredations of the world's worst staff of nurses... and this time, it's up close and personal with the ruthless Head Nurse who dominates all the rest!
Nope Nope Nope Nurses
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Another title from Dark One!, the studio behind Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
The world's worst nurses are back, and they're nastier than ever! Can Yamada escape the clutches of the “OG Three,” a triple threat of veteran nurses who like to play dirty? Find out in this, the second genre-defining hospital misadventure visual novel from Dark One!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
LOVE³ -Love Cube-
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Things are about to change for Ichinari Tsuzurigi, an adult comics artist living in poverty. Blessed by his "Fates", he is facing a turning point of his career, and three women are going to live together with him...
Secret Pie (Adult Version)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Secret story between the mansion manager and three women
Maid Mansion
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire.
A young man inherits his grandfather's mansion on one condition: He can never fire the head maid. Now he is the lord of the manor, free to pursue all his perverse desires...
Frequently asked about Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire
- Does Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire work on Steam Deck?
- Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire cost?
- Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire are Nope Nope Nurses, The Voluptuous DEMON QUEEN and our Shoebox Apartment Life, Netorare Sankaku Kankei.
- Who developed Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire?
- Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire was developed by Dark One! and published by Shiravune.
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