Games like 1997
If 1997 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋, Curiosity and Mystery Island:Missing Amy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic 90s atmosphere, atmospheric and mysterious. 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 1997: Detective visual novel about mysteries of rural Russian town in 90-s, anime style.
Players who liked 1997 also play
Steam players who put hours into 1997 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.
Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
WHY THIS
Top pick for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
Curiosity
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with 1997.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but after satisfying it she was resurrected." This game is a visual novel. Features of the game - puzzles and several endings, depending on your choice.
Mystery Island:Missing Amy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
The adventure begins when Ada, a young explorer, receives a mysterious selfie from her sister, who in fact disappeared months ago. ...... The background of the selfie is a mysterious island with blood-red sea water. Ada decides to go out on the sea to look for her sister……
Whisper Books
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with 1997.
Ranked #4 for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
Whisper Books is a collection of high-profile visual novel, artistically expressed based on literature, with hand-painted illustrations, dubbing and interactive options. The gameplay is weak relative to storytelling, suitable for players and readers who like stories.
我的一个多重人格朋友
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
This is an AVG game that involves reasoning and decryption. He Zhou has 7 different personalities, which alternate seven days a week. Players will play as a detective and deduce the truth behind the horrifying cases surrounding He Zhou through the diary he left behind.
迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with 1997.
Ranked #6 for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with 1997.
Ranked #7 for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
江华号
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with 1997.
Ranked #8 for 1997 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年，武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息，引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访，却误打误撞，被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里，一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 1997 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1997.
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 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1997.
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 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1997.
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 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1997.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with 1997.
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 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1997.
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 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1997.
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 1997 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1997.
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 with 1997.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 1997.
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 and Adventure with 1997.
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 with 1997.
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 1997.
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 1997.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 1997.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about 1997
- How much does 1997 cost?
- 1997 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to 1997?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 1997 are Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋, Curiosity, Mystery Island:Missing Amy.
- Who developed 1997?
- 1997 was developed by Hit'n'Run Digital Studio, RUZURA Interactive and published by Hit'n'Run Digital Studio.
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 1997.
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