Games like Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
If Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos is your kind of game, the closest matches are 无梦少女 DreamlessGirl, 边缘项目 / Living Island Project and National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos: From Dischan Media, creators of the highly acclaimed Juniper's Knot, comes Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.Dysfunctional Systems is a visual novel series featuring Winter Harrison, a student mediator from a utopian world. Learning to Manage Chaos is the first entry in the series.What is a mediator?
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无梦少女 DreamlessGirl
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Top pick for Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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边缘项目 / Living Island Project
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Second-strongest match for Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
文字冒险游戏 《边缘项目（Living Island Project）》 即将上线！你将扮演从神秘岛屿归来的9名失踪者之一的艾萨克·里奇（浥尘），协助WPO（世界警察组织）揭露失踪背后真正的阴谋。在这场旅途中，你也试图寻找你丢失的自我；而为了达到这一目的，你又必将失去些什么……
National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition
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Shares a contemplative mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Third-strongest match for Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
The complete edition of National Park Girls! After five years of being a ranger in Yosemite National Park, Eve is just about ready to throw in the towel. However, things start to change when she meets three spritely girls who claim to be manifestations of the National Parks.
planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Ranked #4 for Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
In time for the 10th anniversary since its original release in Japan, planetarian is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VisualArts, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, Rewrite, and Angel Beats!
夜永 Eternal Love
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Ranked #5 for Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
《夜永》是一款百合向视觉小说游戏，讲述了在前作（千面 Melancholy Love）剧情发生半年之后，聆花女子学院中破茧而出的少女们的故事。
Grisaia Chronos Rebellion
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Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Ranked #7 for Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
The newest installment in the Grisaia visual novel series. All of the girls from Mihama, past and present, must face off against a new evil terrorist organization in an all-out war.
Journal
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Ranked #8 for Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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From the author of Spice and Wolf, Isuna Hasekura, comes WORLD END ECONOMiCA. This is the first episode out of three part sci-fi/economic thriller visual novel set on the moon.
STEINS;GATE
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Reviewers of Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Juniper's Knot
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Reviewers of Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Juniper's Knot is a short (~30 mins) kinetic novel about the meeting of a demon and a boy. A kinetic novel is a game that uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Mahou Arms
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Another title from Dischan Media, the studio behind Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos. Shares Adventure with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Mahou Arms is an anime-inspired character-action hack and slash that tells the story of a magical girl paramilitary group fighting back against an alien invasion.
Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Another title from Dischan Media, the studio behind Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation is a kinetic novel and a prequel to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos. It uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story and follows Winter Harrison during her first week at mediator school.
Juniper's Knot
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Another title from Dischan Media, the studio behind Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos. Shares Indie and Casual with Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.
Juniper's Knot is a short (~30 mins) kinetic novel about the meeting of a demon and a boy. A kinetic novel is a game that uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story.
Frequently asked about Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos
- Does Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos work on Steam Deck?
- Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos cost?
- Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos are 无梦少女 DreamlessGirl, 边缘项目 / Living Island Project, National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition.
- Who developed Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos?
- Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos was developed by Dischan Media.
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