Games like Alive
If Alive is your kind of game, the closest matches are Westview Academy - Season 1, My Pleasure - Season 1 and Chasing Sunsets — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its choices have lasting consequences, multiple endings worth replaying 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.
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Westview Academy - Season 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Top pick for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
A talented young man joins Westview Academy, one of the nation's best schools. At Westview Academy, he'll make tough decisions and have unique experiences surrounded by many new friends and different environments. How will your story go?
My Pleasure - Season 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Second-strongest match for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Alive.
My Pleasure is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel, full of hot women, mystery, and sex! This VN is packed with high-quality graphics, a rich story, humor, and hot close-up animations!
Chasing Sunsets
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Third-strongest match for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
When your mother remarries, her new husband's fiery daughter enters your life. After forming an initial strong connection, misunderstanding pushes you apart. Years later, reunited by tragedy and conspiracy, the two of you must choose a path to follow: Will you be rivals, friends, or lovers?
Returning To Mia
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Alive.
Ranked #4 for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alive.
Set two years after the events of "Summer with Mia", reunite with Mia and decide the course of your relationship with her and many others throughout this exciting, lengthy story. With hundreds of quality animations, impactful choices and multiple endings, journey into a summer you'll never forget.
Lucky Bastard
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Ranked #5 for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Alive.
Married, immoral, and nearly broke — but with a brilliant plan to get rich. Luck favors bastards, but not forever. Sex, intrigue, betrayal, and questionable morals. Manipulate, seduce, or save yourself — your path leads to lust, redemption, or reckoning.
Leap of Faith
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Alive.
Ranked #6 for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Alive.
You thought it was going to be just another summer. You were wrong.
Stranded in Space
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Ranked #7 for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Alive.
Stranded in Space is an erotic sci-fi Visual Novel about a man who wakes up on a spaceship filled only with women. Meet a huge cast of beautiful girls, unravel the connected mysteries, and have a ton of sex within a story acclaimed for its comedy and writing.
Artemis: Book One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Ranked #8 for Alive fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
Artemis is a visual novel intended for the adult audience. You begin your road to recovery three years following a traumatic event, where you'll eventually find yourself shaping the technological future.
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Sisterly Lust
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Reviewers of Alive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
After the sudden death of your father you come back to your hometown and move to a new home to live with Liza, Bella, Rachel and Susan. Will you discover their personalities and secrets and maybe even develop romantic relationships with several of the girls?
Treasure of Nadia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Reviewers of Alive cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Meet gorgeous women! Find long lost treasure, explore the ancient mysteries that surround the island and build your own harem in Treasure of Nadia!
Acting Lessons
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Alive.
Reviewers of Alive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Alive.
Do you want to experience an adult VN that many players and fans only could find the strength to play once? Then this is the game for you. Acting Lessons is packed with a rich story, comedy, sex and drama. The choices you make in this game will affect your adventure until the very end.
Depraved Awakening
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Alive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Alive.
You are a private eye in Free City. Your latest client has found himself dead. As for how, many suspect suicide, though you're smarter than that. But poking around may get you in some hot water, but then again why would you be a private eye if you couldn't take the heat?
City of Broken Dreamers: Book One
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Alive.
Reviewers of Alive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Alive.
City of Broken Dreamers is a mature adults only cyberpunk visual novel. In the game you will find a choice based visually erotic and exciting adventure.
Leap of Faith
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with Alive.
Reviewers of Alive cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Alive.
You thought it was going to be just another summer. You were wrong.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alive at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
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 Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Alive.
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 Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
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 Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alive.
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 Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alive.
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 Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Alive.
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 Alive on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Alive.
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 and Casual with Alive.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Alive.
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 Casual with Alive.
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 Alive.
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.
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 Alive.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Alive.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Alive
- Does Alive run on Steam Deck?
- Alive 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 Alive cost?
- Alive is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Alive?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alive are Westview Academy - Season 1, My Pleasure - Season 1, Chasing Sunsets.
- Who developed Alive?
- Alive was developed by Cskin Games.
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 Alive.
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