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Games like Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor

If Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Secret Diaries - Royal Wedding, Undercover - Secret Management and Elena's Journal: To Atlantis — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ballroom music enhances immersion, beautifully detailed manor rooms and cat companion adds charm. 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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2023StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby SQRT3
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Players who liked Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor also play

Steam players who put hours into Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor 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. Secret Diaries - Royal Wedding

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Attend lavish balls and meet handsome bachelors in the new Time Management game!

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual15.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Undercover - Secret Management

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Help Veronica solve another dark mystery and reconcile with her sister.

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual15.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Elena's Journal: To Atlantis

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management, achievement hunting and a cozy mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Third-strongest match for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Discover the lost secrets of Atlantis in this Time Management Adventure!

    2023StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Welcome to Primrose Lake 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    The mystery continues in the highly anticipated sequel to Welcome to Primrose Lake!

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual15.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Scarlet's Haunted Hotel

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an atmospheric mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Ranked #5 for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Help Scarlet unravel the mystery of the nightmare hotel and experience a dark romance.

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual15.19 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Delicious - Mansion Mystery

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and a cozy mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Ranked #6 for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Emily & Francois investigate the poisoning of a high-society party host

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Arcane Arts: Sorcerer's Quest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Return to the world of magic for another academic year!

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Barbarous: Family Secrets

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Help Emyr save the world in a Time Management game full of adventure and comedy!

    2024StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~57% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Casual with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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. Shares Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from SQRT3

Other recommendable Steam games by SQRT3, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Welcome to Primrose Lake

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management, achievement hunting and an atmospheric mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Welcome to Primrose Lake. Everyone has a secret. Primrose Lake is not as quaint as it seems. Experience a new Time Management mystery where everyone has a secret.

    2020StrategyAdventureCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Barbarous - Tavern Of Emyr

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and a whimsical mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    As a fantasy world innkeeper, face the problems of a prematurely retired hero!

    2020ActionSportsStrategy12.79 USDSteam ↗
  3. Arcane Arts Academy

    WHY THIS

    Shares achievement hunting and a cozy mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Join Erika during her first year at the Arcane Arts Academy!

    2021StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDSteam ↗
  4. Barbarous 2 - Tavern Wars

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and achievement hunting with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Join Emyr and the Barbarous party on an epic Time Management adventure!

    2022StrategyAdventureCasual13.59 USDSteam ↗
  5. Elena's Journal - Unfinished Expedition

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an atmospheric mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Help Elena discover the City of the Amazons in a Time Management adventure!

    2022StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Arcane Arts Academy 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Return to the world of magic for another academic year!

    2022StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDSteam ↗
  7. Undercover - Blood Bonds

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an atmospheric mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Help Vera find her missing sister as strange things emerge as night falls!

    2022StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Delicious - Cooking and Romance

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management, achievement hunting and a cozy mood with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Another title from SQRT3, the studio behind Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

    Join Emily & her family in a new Delicious Restaurant and Time Management game

    2023StrategyAdventureCasual15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor

Does Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor run on Steam Deck?
Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor 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 Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor cost?
Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor is listed on Steam at 14.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor are Secret Diaries - Royal Wedding, Undercover - Secret Management, Elena's Journal: To Atlantis.
Who developed Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor?
Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor was developed by SQRT3 and published by GameHouse.

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 Secret Diaries: Manage a Manor.

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