Games like ARTISAN
If ARTISAN is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trap Yuri Tempest, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and VANDALISM101 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters feel three dimensional, multiple endings reward replayability and atmospheric. 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 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.
Players who liked ARTISAN also play
Steam players who put hours into ARTISAN 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.
Trap Yuri Tempest
WHY THIS
Top pick for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
A romantic storm is brewing at Ayanohara Academy! A princely trap and a delinquent one... two unlikely he-iresses are destined to become lovers. Who will sweep the other into the tempest of love first? A cross-dressing yuri VN packed with humor, heart, and outrageous twists!
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with ARTISAN.
Second-strongest match 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.
VANDALISM101
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
VANDALISM101: An Office Simulation Visual Novel! You’ll become a new employee at the mysterious, top-secret research facility VANDALISM101. Complete the tasks assigned to you, boost your performance, and survive!
ScreamCap
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
ScreamCap is a team of paranormal investigators live streaming their dives into the unknown to an audience of believers.
Danganronpa 2x2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ARTISAN.
While on a school trip to Jabberwock Island, students are ensnared in Monokuma’s deadly game, forced into mutual killing and Class Trials to expose the culprit. Break through contradictions with high-speed detective action. Includes both a brand-new scenario and the enhanced original!
Trap Yuri Garden
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ARTISAN.
Ranked #6 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!
XorceD - Sashiro's Laedrum
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with ARTISAN.
World-line Laedrum: Play as Sashiro Kobata, a World-Peacemaker (WPM) officer with an incredible dual-wielding pistol skill, in an undercover mission! His WPM-group has found out information about a terrorist group. The information: A highschool student is supposed to be the leader of that terrorist group!
Chibi Wars Kinetic Novel
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ARTISAN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
Chibi Wars is a series of comic 'kinetic' visual novel stories... Featuring a cute Chibi artstyle following a group of Female Warriors as they face off against various denizens of hell including zombies, vampires and demons.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ARTISAN at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARTISAN.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARTISAN.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARTISAN.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARTISAN.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARTISAN.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ARTISAN.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ARTISAN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ARTISAN.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with ARTISAN.
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 ARTISAN.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARTISAN.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ARTISAN.
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. Shares Indie and Casual with ARTISAN.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 ARTISAN.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ARTISAN.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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 Trap Yuri Tempest, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, VANDALISM101.
- Who developed ARTISAN?
- ARTISAN was developed by STARRYWARE, The Order Of The Frame and published by STARRYWARE.
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