Games like School Days
If School Days is your kind of game, the closest matches are Volcano Princess, Chinese Parents and 轮回修仙传 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character growth feels organic, choices feel permanently consequential and contemplative. 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 School Days: 《学生时代》是一款可自由构筑的校园人生模拟器。你将在高度还原的中国校园中，从入学一路走到高考，与多个性格鲜明的同学一起成长，互相陪伴。你的养成和选择，不但会决定你的人生，也会影响到朋友们的未来。
Players who liked School Days also play
Steam players who put hours into School Days 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.
Volcano Princess
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with School Days.
Top pick for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with School Days.
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
Chinese Parents
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with School Days.
Second-strongest match for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?
轮回修仙传
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with School Days.
Third-strongest match for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with School Days.
想书写你的龙傲天修仙人生吗？《轮回修仙传》是一款以修仙为题材的多结局多周目轮回式Roguelike人生模拟类游戏。沉浸式体验「我命由我不由天」的逆袭剧本，经历一世又一世的劫难，轮回点化作登仙台阶，结识修仙路上的红颜道侣，合理规划你的修炼和行动，不断突破境界，直到你一拳轰碎这天道约束！
在线教育开发实习生 Elearning Development Intern
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with School Days.
An internship at an educational startup begins. No matter which computer is in front of you (inside or outside), you just need to, work and learn!
Magical Princess
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an emotional mood with School Days.
Ranked #5 for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!
Emily is Away Too
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with School Days.
Ranked #6 for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Such a guy
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an emotional mood with School Days.
Ranked #7 for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with School Days.
Join two close friends in building a cozy seaside B&B. Every choice affects the story and your relationships. Spend heartfelt moments with six unique girls and create a summer worth remembering. 4K visuals, nearly 1,000 minutes of video, side stories, mini-games, and 20+ endings await.
Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with School Days.
Ranked #8 for School Days fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.
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Princess Maker 5
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with School Days.
Reviewers of School Days cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with School Days.
Discover magic in our world with Princess Maker 5! A lone princess needs your care in a realm where fantasy meets reality. Guide her growth and shape her destiny. Create unforgettable memories as you raise her.
Chinese Parents
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with School Days.
Reviewers of School Days cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?
Growing Up
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with School Days.
Reviewers of School Days cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with School Days.
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Volcano Princess
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with School Days.
Reviewers of School Days cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with School Days.
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below School Days at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
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 ~56% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with School Days.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with School Days.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with School Days.
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 ~56% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with School Days.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~91% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Indie with School Days.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with School Days.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under School Days on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 School Days.
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.
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 School Days.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with School Days.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with School Days.
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 Simulation with School Days.
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 with School Days.
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.
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Frequently asked about School Days
- Does School Days run on Steam Deck?
- School Days is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does School Days cost?
- School Days is listed on Steam at 11.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to School Days?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside School Days are Volcano Princess, Chinese Parents, 轮回修仙传.
- Who developed School Days?
- School Days was developed by 白雨工作室.
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 School Days.
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