Games like Helping Ani
If Helping Ani is your kind of game, the closest matches are This Is Not Your House, Smell like a puddle and CLOSER - anagnorisis — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Helping Ani: Helping Ani is a psychological-horror game, where you play as Hajime, a boy who has to take something to his girlfriend, Ani. But be careful, the forest may be full of traps and strange creatures!
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Steam players who put hours into Helping Ani 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.
This Is Not Your House
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Top pick for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Smell like a puddle
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Second-strongest match for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
— Each of us fell into a puddle. And everyone knows that you can find yourself after that... in a strange place from which there is no escape. Didn't it happen?.. Well, it's nothing — it's going to happen soon! You will have to explore your new home... and become a part of it. ^-^
CLOSER - anagnorisis
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Third-strongest match for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
CLOSER - anagnorisis is a game with distinctive art and gameplay. It contains a lot of creative designs. Here you will feel the spiritual experience.
Protocol Five
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Ranked #4 for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
Protocol Filve is a surreal first-person adventure with multiple endings, you will find yourself in a world where some rotten things want to kill you. Some choices along the way drastically and irreversibly change the game, leading to one of the 5 possible endings.
Cryphora
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Ranked #5 for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
A remote mountain cabin, a raging snowstorm, and the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Make difficult choices, explore surreal worlds, and confront what waits in the dark.
You know my name?
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Ranked #6 for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Tide Girl: Phenomena
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Ranked #7 for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
Enjoy the murder by the word.
Lazarus A.D. 2222
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Ranked #8 for Helping Ani fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helping Ani.
The final part of the Sons of Welder game series, set in a dystopian universe, which uniquely combines games from the Magnus series. A game that you can experience on two levels. Hand-drawn motion comics. A metaphorical journey into oneself. A mystical experience with a touch of good humor.
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Frequently asked about Helping Ani
- Is Helping Ani free to play?
- Yes — Helping Ani is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Helping Ani?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Helping Ani are This Is Not Your House, Smell like a puddle, CLOSER - anagnorisis.
- Who developed Helping Ani?
- Helping Ani was developed by lnlnta.
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 Helping Ani.
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