Free games like Nova Hearts
Below are 10 free-to-play Steam games similar to Nova Hearts, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
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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Blush Blush
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
You are responsible somehow for a curse that befalls 12 unfortunate hawt dudes. Now you have to find them and break the curse with your love!!
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Killer Chat! - Original Edition
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and RPG with Nova Hearts.
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
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Witches x Warlocks
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
Witches x Warlocks is a cute and light-hearted Halloween Raising Sim; featuring a customizable protagonist and 4 love interests of different genders!
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Girls' Frontline
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Strategy and RPG with Nova Hearts.
As a Commander for Griffin & Kryuger PMC. Navigate faction power struggles, deploy forces strategically, and work to restore order in a war-torn world.
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ERROR143
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.
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Seduce Me the Otome
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window.
A romantic comedy visual novel centered around a girl named Mika Anderson, who gets entangled in the affairs of incubi.
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Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Mission: It's Complicated
Free-to-play alternative to Nova Hearts — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie with Nova Hearts.
Mission: It’s Complicated is a narrative-based, visual novel where you match super-awesome superheroes to go on missions during the night and dates during the day. The more compatible the pair of superheroes are, the more likely that they will fall in love and save the world.