Games like Ballads at Midnight
If Ballads at Midnight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deathwish Bloom, Heart & Soul and Super Web Kittens: Act I — 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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Deathwish Bloom
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Top pick for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel set in a quake post-apocalypse, play as Sky, an impostor scientist racing to recreate a cure only she knows existed. Weave or snap ever-shifting bonds with characters whose harboured obsessions can end your pursuit, just as you can theirs. Unless...
Heart & Soul
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Shares branching narrative, achievement hunting and an atmospheric mood with Ballads at Midnight.
Second-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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Third-strongest match 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.
Cabernet
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Shares romance system, branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Ballads at Midnight.
Ranked #4 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 #5 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.
Metamorph
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Ranked #6 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
Woken up one day to find your body turning into something in equal parts horrifying and unfamiliar, you decide to attempt to score a date with your crush before it's too late. Navigate high school and a kafkaesque nightmare, while trying to win the affection of your beau before the week ends.
Demonheart: Hunters
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ballads at Midnight.
Ranked #7 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
Embrace or resist the demonic influence around you. Romance your companions in this RPG with an emphasis on conversation choices and character interactions.
Blood Code
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Shares branching narrative with Ballads at Midnight.
Ranked #8 for Ballads at Midnight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ballads at Midnight.
A story about an ordinary human girl and her romantic encounters with knights and princes. These characters may be gentle, passionate, considerate, or inhospitable. There are many character styles to suit a variety of individual player tastes.
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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, Heart & Soul, Super Web Kittens: Act I.
- 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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