Games like Hookah Haze
If Hookah Haze is your kind of game, the closest matches are The 257th Element, Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED and Petit Game Collection vol.1 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ambiguously gendered protagonist, atmospheric hookah lounge setting 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 Hookah Haze: It's the year 2xxx. The inexperienced Toru Sumiki lands a job managing Hookah Haze, a new hookah lounge on the outskirts of Akihabara, where they meet three eccentric girls. The story unfolds as the girls gradually open up to them, connecting through their fondness for hookah...
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The 257th Element
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, branching narrative, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Top pick for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
In 2032, Tokyo scientists unveil Araraginium, the 257th element, capable of materializing matter and bringing back the deceased as Araragi Humans. Masakazu Tokimune, a Japanese high school student, grapples with daily life's blend of humor, intrigue, and love.
Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue driven storytelling, relationship building, slice of life and an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Second-strongest match for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Relive the four days of destiny...
Petit Game Collection vol.1
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, branching narrative, whimsical and an emotional mood with Hookah Haze.
Third-strongest match for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
A spin-off minigame collection of "Needy Streamer Overload". Meet your internet angel in this retro-style game world!
MATCH APP!
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
MATCH APP! is a visual novel game based on a Japanese dating app. Players take on the role of the protagonist and experience a story of new encounters through the dating app.
Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Hookah Haze.
Ranked #5 for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
Chill Pulse
WHY THIS
Shares time management and atmospheric with Hookah Haze.
Ranked #6 for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Chill Pulse combines productivity tools with serene environments. Use a Pomodoro timer and to-do lists to boost focus, while ambient sounds in settings from cyberpunk cities to ancient landscapes enhance relaxation.
AIR
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, branching narrative, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Ranked #7 for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Summer stretches on endlessly. Beneath the vast blue sky. Beneath the air in which she awaits— AIR, the second game released by visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring the side story novel, "First Sky Chapter" and full voice support!
Kanon
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style and atmospheric with Hookah Haze.
Ranked #8 for Hookah Haze fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
A tale of small miracles in a snow-covered town— Kanon, the very first game from visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring HD visuals and full voice support! (The protagonist is only voiced in certain scenes.)
Reviewers mention these as similar to Hookah Haze
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NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a contemplative mood with Hookah Haze.
Reviewers of Hookah Haze cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Reviewers of Hookah Haze cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Coffee Talk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Reviewers of Hookah Haze cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hookah Haze at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Hookah Haze on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Hookah Haze on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Hookah Haze on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Hookah Haze on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~94% under Hookah Haze on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
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?
Papers, Please
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Hookah Haze on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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.
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.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
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.
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 Adventure with Hookah Haze.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from ACQUIRE Corp.
Other recommendable Steam games by ACQUIRE Corp., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
OCTOPATH TRAVELER™
WHY THIS
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze.
Eight travelers. Eight adventures. Eight roles to play. Embark on an epic journey across the vast and wondrous world of Orsterra and discover the captivating stories of each of the eight travelers.
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze.
This game is a brand-new entry in the OCTOPATH TRAVELER series, the first installment of which was initially released in 2018 and sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead ＆ Undressed
WHY THIS
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
In Tokyo’s popular ”Electric Town” district, Akihabara, vampires called “Synthisters” walk among us. You must identify and dispose of them the only way you know how – by engaging them in hand-to-hand combat in order to strip them of their clothes so their bodies melt away in the sunlight.
Way of the Samurai 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Way of the Samurai 4 takes place in the humble port town of Amihama during the mid 19th Century, several years after the arrival of the “black ships” from the West ended Japan’s long history of cultural isolation.
Way of the Samurai 3
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…
Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze.
The magic torches are lit, the monsters are ravenous, and the kingdom is waiting for a new hero. Experience the legendary Wizardry series’ modern rebirth as you traverse perilous dungeons and take on hordes of fantastic enemies. Are you up to the challenge?
KATANA KAMI: A Way of the Samurai Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze.
The Way of the Samurai is forged in battle! Help the swordsmith Dojima pay off his debt after his beautiful daughter is taken as collateral by crafting swords by day and exploring mysterious, twisting dungeons for valuable materials at night.
All in Abyss: Judge the Fake
WHY THIS
Shares replayability, dialogue choices, visual novel style and an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Another title from ACQUIRE Corp., the studio behind Hookah Haze. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Either I die, or the Witches perish. I challenge thee to a deathmatch!” Asuha, a self-proclaimed gambling prodigy, challenges the Witch ruling the gambling district. Poised to win, she is defeated by a mysterious power. An adventure of gambling, exposing frauds and earning fortunes through poker.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue driven storytelling, relationship building, slice of life and an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Relive the four days of destiny...
Coffee flavor of love 咖啡甜恋
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Hookah Haze.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Sweet love begins in the coffee shop. Office romances of coffee shop employees. This is a visual novel game with two endings.
AIR
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, branching narrative, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Hookah Haze.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
Summer stretches on endlessly. Beneath the vast blue sky. Beneath the air in which she awaits— AIR, the second game released by visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring the side story novel, "First Sky Chapter" and full voice support!
Kanon
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style and atmospheric with Hookah Haze.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Hookah Haze.
A tale of small miracles in a snow-covered town— Kanon, the very first game from visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring HD visuals and full voice support! (The protagonist is only voiced in certain scenes.)
Frequently asked about Hookah Haze
- Is Hookah Haze verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Hookah Haze 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 Hookah Haze cost?
- Hookah Haze is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hookah Haze?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hookah Haze are The 257th Element, Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED, Petit Game Collection vol.1.
- Who developed Hookah Haze?
- Hookah Haze was developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and published by Aniplex Inc..
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