Games like Bloomtown: A Different Story
If Bloomtown: A Different Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stories of Somnia, Tales of Tuscany and Sea of Stars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and dark. 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 Bloomtown: A Different Story: Bloomtown: A Different Story is a narrative JRPG mixing turn-based combat, monster taming and social RPG set in a seemingly pleasant 1960s Americana world. Join Emily and her group of friends to save their cozy town from the demonic creatures that live in the hearts of its residents!
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Steam players who put hours into Bloomtown: A Different Story 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.
Stories of Somnia
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Top pick for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Stories of Somnia is an exploration-first JRPG with the bones of a Metroidvania. Use spells to grapple across gaps, change the rules of combat, and reshape the world around you. Collect memory-born companions called Dreamkin and uncover a story about grief, time, and the courage to rest.
Tales of Tuscany
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Play as LAMBYPOO and adventure through Tuscany, either gaslighting your enemies into joining your party or defeating them for their EXP in your efforts to save your cousins and rebuild your village.
Sea of Stars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Third-strongest match for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.
V-Monsters Forgotten Link
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Ranked #4 for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
A turn-based monster-taming RPG with 3x3 battles and mid-battle evolutions. Build your team, strengthen your bonds, and fight to restore Folklora, a digital world devastated by war.
Cassette Beasts 2002
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Ranked #5 for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Record, battle, and fuse with 250+ beasts as you adventure alongside diverse companions in this monster-collecting RPG. Set in London in 2002, play in single-player or online to unmask an enigmatic occultist who threatens the realms of man and beast! When worlds collide, take the leap beyond!
Kin's Chronicle
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Ranked #6 for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
You are Kin, a slumbering imp awakened by a less-than-stellar Arcanist who wants to fix the damaged world. Use new powers granted to you by new allies to recruit monsters and travel through time.
Legends of Crystal
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Ranked #7 for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Legends of Crystal is a turn-based RPG that blends two cultures, namely Nusantara and Japan. It tells the story of a child chosen by a god who must save a crystal from evil. The crystal is divided into 6 powers due to the greed of jinns and mythical creatures in the past.
Alchemic Beasts
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Ranked #8 for Bloomtown: A Different Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
A monster-taming RPG where the social chemistry between your beasts shape how they bond, battle, and build. Join Zieg and Mioni to reclaim the wild paradise of Mizu, tame powerful monsters, and restore the resort to its former glory.
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Persona 5 Royal
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Reviewers of Bloomtown: A Different Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Don the mask and join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as they stage grand heists, infiltrate the minds of the corrupt, and make them change their ways!
Undertale
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Reviewers of Bloomtown: A Different Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Reviewers of Bloomtown: A Different Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Stranger Things 3: The Game
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Reviewers of Bloomtown: A Different Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Stranger Things 3: The Game is the official companion game to Season 3 of the hit original series! Play through familiar events from the series while also uncovering never-before-seen quests, character interactions, and secrets!
MOTHER
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Reviewers of Bloomtown: A Different Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bloomtown: A Different Story at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~60% under Bloomtown: A Different Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Bloomtown: A Different Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under Bloomtown: A Different Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Bloomtown: A Different Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Bloomtown: A Different Story on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Undertale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Priced ~60% under Bloomtown: A Different Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Bloomtown: A Different Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
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!
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 with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
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. Shares Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
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 and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
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 with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
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 and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Lazy Bear Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Lazy Bear Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Graveyard Keeper
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a dark mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Bloomtown: A Different Story. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Punch Club
WHY THIS
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Bloomtown: A Different Story. Shares Indie and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
Punch Club 2: Fast Forward
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Bloomtown: A Different Story. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Train, fight, and rise to the top in this knockout sequel to the smashing fighter management simulator! Mentor your fighter and guide him to become the ultimate champion: choose from different combat styles, control his routine, and watch him kick some butt like a proud sensei!
Swag and Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Bloomtown: A Different Story. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Grind for resources, manage your own fantasy village, create and equip your heroes and send them to collect swag in Swag and Sorcery - a new streamlined RPG from the creators of Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper.
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Bloomtown: A Different Story. Shares RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is a crafting RPG set in the whimsical world of Bandle City. After a party goes wrong, the portals that connect your home collapse and throw everything into chaos! Using your knitting magic and backpack house, restore the portals to reunite Bandle City.
Graveyard Keeper 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Bloomtown: A Different Story. Shares Adventure and RPG with Bloomtown: A Different Story.
The most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim is back! Restore The Town, manage the graveyard, automate production, lead your undead army into battle and turn the zombie problem into a thriving business! Graveyard Keeper 2 is the grotesque sequel that's deeper than six feet, and more unhinged than ever!
Frequently asked about Bloomtown: A Different Story
- Is Bloomtown: A Different Story verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Bloomtown: A Different Story is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Bloomtown: A Different Story cost?
- Bloomtown: A Different Story is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Bloomtown: A Different Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bloomtown: A Different Story are Stories of Somnia, Tales of Tuscany, Sea of Stars.
- Who developed Bloomtown: A Different Story?
- Bloomtown: A Different Story was developed by Lazy Bear Games, Different Sense Games and published by Twin Sails Interactive.
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