Games like To Have and to Hold
If To Have and to Hold is your kind of game, the closest matches are All Idleness and Ephemera, Unluckily in Love and The Thistle and the Flower — 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 To Have and to Hold: A short boys love / yaoi / gay visual novel about a couple of cousins whose paths cross at a family wedding. They both get a little drunk, emotions run high, and things take a surprisingly steamy turn.
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Steam players who put hours into To Have and to Hold 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.
All Idleness and Ephemera
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Top pick for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A lewd boys love / BL / yaoi visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired universe about a couple of cousins who like one another a perfectly normal amount. The story contains a lot of explicit sexual content.
Unluckily in Love
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Second-strongest match for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A cute boys love / BL / yaoi visual novel about a slowly developing romantic relationship between a couple of cousins.
The Thistle and the Flower
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Third-strongest match for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A short and smutty boys' love / yaoi visual novel set in Victorian England about a cocksure servant's attempts to turn his aloof, awkward master into his own personal plaything.
I made a FEMBOY SQUIRT!
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Ranked #4 for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
An old friend asks a big favor...
Sweet fantasy
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Ranked #5 for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
Visual novel. Young and pretty nymph Pumpkin fell in love with her mistress.
I got GOONED by a FEMBOY
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Ranked #6 for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Horny Housewives Booty Call Blackmail
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Ranked #7 for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Beautiful babes beware, the CEO's son is here! The two sexiest housewives in the neighborhood will have to do whatever it takes to please him so their poor husbands can keep their jobs. Its not like his huge cock would awaken the latent lust burning inside them, and they'd start to enjoy it right?
Lagoon Lounge : The Poisonous Fountain
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Ranked #8 for To Have and to Hold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
This is a visual novel containing furry characters and homosexual themes. You take on the role of a furry who has moved to a seaside village and become involved in the lives of its residents.
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Other recommendable Steam games by ebi-hime, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Blackberry Honey
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.
Sweetest Monster
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
Her Love, Like Poison
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
Cage of Roses
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
Strawberry Vinegar
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
The Fairy's Song
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A yuri / lesbian visual novel set in the UK. Marnie, a bored goth girl, accidentally stumbles upon a sleeping female knight in the forest. Together, the pair must work to break a centuries-old curse, while romantic feelings between them begin to grow.
Rituals in the Dark
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...?
The Way We All Go (2015)
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind To Have and to Hold. Shares Indie with To Have and to Hold.
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
Frequently asked about To Have and to Hold
- Does To Have and to Hold run on Steam Deck?
- To Have and to Hold is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is To Have and to Hold free to play?
- Yes — To Have and to Hold 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 To Have and to Hold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside To Have and to Hold are All Idleness and Ephemera, Unluckily in Love, The Thistle and the Flower.
- Who developed To Have and to Hold?
- To Have and to Hold was developed by ebi-hime.
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 To Have and to Hold.
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