Games like Ballads at Midnight
If Ballads at Midnight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deathwish Bloom, Madness in Bloom and Heart & Soul — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, melancholic and poignant. 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 Ballads at Midnight: When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight.
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Steam players who put hours into Ballads at Midnight 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.
Deathwish Bloom
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Top pick for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel, play as Sky, a love-struck impostor scientist born into a quake-ridden world. Survive your own secrets in a last-ditch attempt to recreate a cure only you remember existed. Let in characters whose obsessions can both aid and destroy you.
Madness in Bloom
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Second-strongest match for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
Running from a painful betrayal, you retreat to the quiet countryside, hoping to leave the past behind. Instead, you find unexpected relationships, buried secrets, and a future that depends entirely on the choices you make.
Heart & Soul
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Shares branching narrative, achievement hunting and an atmospheric mood with Ballads at Midnight.
Third-strongest match for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ballads at Midnight.
A romance otome visual novel set in Ancient Greece that follows the myth of Psyche as she falls in love with her mysterious husband. Navigate fickle gods and Psyche's looming tragic fate by making meaningful choices that affect the story and its ending.
Super Web Kittens: Act I
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Ranked #4 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
🐾 Super Web Kittens is a short linear lighthearted story made with a ton of love and irony & styled as visual novel with battle shonen elements.
While Shifu's Away: Senior Sister, I've Fallen for You!
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Ranked #5 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
Shifu is away, and your shy junior brother can no longer hide his feelings. Play as the senior sister in a sweet xianxia romance visual novel where replies and daily choices shape your bond and lead to different endings. And yes, the main characters sing original songs!
Cabernet
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Shares romance system, branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Ballads at Midnight.
Ranked #6 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
Demonheart
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Ranked #7 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.
Love Notes
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Ranked #8 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
Play as Rachel or Jesse in this horror dating sim featuring 2 male and 3 female love interests.
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Frequently asked about Ballads at Midnight
- Is Ballads at Midnight verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Ballads at Midnight is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- Is Ballads at Midnight free to play?
- Yes — Ballads at Midnight is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Ballads at Midnight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ballads at Midnight are Deathwish Bloom, Madness in Bloom, Heart & Soul.
- Who developed Ballads at Midnight?
- Ballads at Midnight was developed by Synstoria and published by Abiding Bridge.
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 Ballads at Midnight.
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