Games like ARTISAN
Below are 8 hand-picked alternatives to ARTISAN for fans of indie, adventure, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in ARTISAN also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About ARTISAN: A young man finds himself trapped in an otherworldly museum where he is forced to fight in a battle royal using strange ghost-like creatures called Artisans. ARTISAN is a Japanese style visual novel with choice-based dialogue and contains adult language, suggestive sexual themes and violence.
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Top pick for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ARTISAN.
Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
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Trap Yuri Garden
Second-strongest match for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with ARTISAN.
Traps in motion at long last! Trap series creators Aogiri Penta and Nishida Hajime bring us another exciting title, a cross-dressing yuri love story that will shatter its readers sense of values into a thousand pieces!
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Case 00: The Cannibal Boy
Third-strongest match for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy is a half-hour visual novel partly based on a true story, written by a writer with a background in psychology. It is a psychological horror story with an urban legend theme.
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Scary Game
Ranked #4 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
You open your eyes in a dark, unfamiliar room; each door drags you into a new chamber filled with absurd surprises and dark comedy. Will you manage to escape, or will you continue to star in this black comedy?
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Ranked #5 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ARTISAN.
A new cast of 16 characters find themselves kidnapped and imprisoned in a school. Inside, some will kill, some will die, and some will be punished. Reimagine what you thought high-stakes, fast-paced investigation was as you investigate twisted murder cases and condemn your new friends to death.
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Fatal Twelve
Ranked #6 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
Shishimai Rinka was a high schooler who ran a small café named Lion House in place of her grandmother. She lived her life much like any other person her age, but one day, she was caught up in an explosion while returning home on the train alongside her friend, Hitsuji Naomi.
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Paradise
Ranked #7 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with ARTISAN.
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.
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The Miskatonic
Ranked #8 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
Explore the most prestigious occult school in North America, The Miskatonic University, in a hilarious dark comedy set after the Lovecraft canon, in which the greatest threat to mankind is its own ambitions.
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Frequently asked about ARTISAN
- How much does ARTISAN cost?
- ARTISAN is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ARTISAN?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ARTISAN are Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Trap Yuri Garden, Case 00: The Cannibal Boy.
- Who developed ARTISAN?
- ARTISAN was developed by STARRYWARE, The Order Of The Frame and published by STARRYWARE.
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 ARTISAN.
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