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Games like If only I could go home early

If If only I could go home early is your kind of game, the closest matches are 我反对这门亲事-I'm against this marriage, Secret Agent Puzzle and Frincess&Cnight — picked from the ranked list below. 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.

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About If only I could go home early: This is a pixel-style puzzle game. It tells about a white-collar worker in his thirties who is doing well in a big city. His career is on the rise, and he has a house, a cat, and a lovely wife. But one night, his wife started pretending to be dead…

2023IndieCasual3.99 USDWindowsby 五十游戏
If only I could go home early — Steam game cover

Players who liked If only I could go home early also play

Steam players who put hours into If only I could go home early 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.

  1. 我反对这门亲事-I'm against this marriage

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    Unemployed fathers pick up the pieces to make their daughters happy, earn money, work hard, and find a new life or a second chance!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Secret Agent Puzzle

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with If only I could go home early.

    Dr. Von Bösenstein is plotting to take over the world and you’re the only one that can stop her! Ensure she can’t complete any of the “world domination”-inators by navigating your way through intricate puzzle rooms. Avoid traps, don’t get stuck, solve the rooms and most important of all… a cat?

    2025IndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Frincess&Cnight

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    Frincess&Cnight is a single-screen puzzle-platformer game about struggle and love between Frog princess and Cat knight.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 夏日的回忆

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    这是一款传统的AVG的文字游戏!讲述的是……青春……校园……您的选择会影响主人公命运,引领这他走若干不同的结局……没有暴力,也没有色情。这关于……爱……友情……亲情的故事!还有……疑惑……不解……和全体通过后的一丝丝的奇怪的感觉。

    2021StrategyIndieRPG10.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Pact Between Us

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with If only I could go home early.

    "Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Immortal Farmer: System’s Mandate

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    Welcome to "Immortal Farmer: System’s Mandate", RPG blending rural & cult. life. In demon-doomed world, flee to Taoyuan. Cultivate, gather, refine, bond. Cultivation needs accumulation & choices; follow heart for peace & fulfillment.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure2.79 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 糟糕!他们太爱我了怎么办?

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    You'll immerse yourself in first-person perspective, encountering four boys with diverse personalities and appearances, embarking on various sweet love stories with them. The aloof boss, the gentle neighbor, the adorable coffeeboy, or the platonic friend? Among them, who will be your final choice?

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. 我的时光:大学日记

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for If only I could go home early fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    《College Diaries》 is a simulation game set against the backdrop of college life. Players take on the role of a college freshman, shaping their college career by choosing different majors, joining various clubs, participating in campus activities.

    2026IndieSimulationRPG13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below If only I could go home early at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Casual with If only I could go home early.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Casual with If only I could go home early.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Casual with If only I could go home early.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with If only I could go home early.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under If only I could go home early on Steam right now. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 If only I could go home early.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 If only I could go home early.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with If only I could go home early.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with If only I could go home early.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with If only I could go home early.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with If only I could go home early.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about If only I could go home early

How much does If only I could go home early cost?
If only I could go home early is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to If only I could go home early?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside If only I could go home early are 我反对这门亲事-I'm against this marriage, Secret Agent Puzzle, Frincess&Cnight.
Who developed If only I could go home early?
If only I could go home early was developed by 五十游戏 and published by NPC Entertainment.

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