Games like Anime City
If Anime City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, Sifting Thyme - an otome game inspired by culinary shows and AI2U: With You 'Til The End — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its club activities feel meaningful, cooking mechanics are satisfying and atmospheric. 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 Anime City: Anime City is a Japanese high school simulator, focused on anime culture and aesthetics. Study, join school clubs, and make friends.
Players who liked Anime City also play
Steam players who put hours into Anime City 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.
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Anime City.
Top pick for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. Are you ready? Hi ready, I'm Dad.
Sifting Thyme - an otome game inspired by culinary shows
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Anime City.
Second-strongest match for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
An otome visual novel where you choose your romance with an attractive boy in culinary school. A perfectly delectable romance for foodies.
AI2U: With You 'Til The End
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anime City.
Third-strongest match for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
You wake up in a cute girl's home who's eager to keep you by her side! Engage with thematic stories, puzzles, and unique AI NPCs who'll go to any lengths to protect you—even when it means contradicting themselves. Bask in meet-cutes or brace for chaos if you try to escape.
SunnySide
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anime City.
Ranked #4 for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
Find harmony in the Japanese countryside as you help Sparky uncover lost memories in this modern take on the farming and life simulator. Build a thriving homestead, cultivate new relationships, and chase your own happiness in SunnySide.
Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anime City.
Ranked #5 for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
Design your own wizard to attend a magical school. Learn spells, explore dungeons, make friends, and find a date for the May Day Ball. But be careful, everyone has secrets - including you!
Maid Cafe on Electric Street
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Anime City.
Ranked #6 for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
Maid Cafe on Electric Street is a leisurely maid cafe adventure set in the otaku haven of Nipponbashi, Osaka.
inZOI
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Anime City.
Ranked #7 for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Anime City.
"Every life becomes a story" Create your unique story by controlling and observing the lives of 'Zois'. Customize characters and build houses using inZOI's easy-to-use tools to live the life of your dreams and experience the different emotions of life created by its deep and detailed simulation.
Pact Between Us
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Anime City.
Ranked #8 for Anime City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
"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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anime City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
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 ~67% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Anime City.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Anime City.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anime City.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anime City.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anime City.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anime City.
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 ~67% under Anime City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Anime City.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Anime City.
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 Anime City.
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 Anime City.
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 Anime City.
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 Anime City.
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 Anime City.
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 Anime City
- Does Anime City run on Steam Deck?
- Anime City 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 Anime City cost?
- Anime City is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Anime City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anime City are Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator, Sifting Thyme - an otome game inspired by culinary shows, AI2U: With You 'Til The End.
- Who developed Anime City?
- Anime City was developed by Shoujo City Developer.
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 Anime City.
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