Games like ShelfLife: Art School Detective
If ShelfLife: Art School Detective is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pages of Tomorrow, To Find A Home and The Other Side of the Wall — 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 ShelfLife: Art School Detective: ShelfLife: Art School Detective is a Mystery Adventure featuring a cast of romanceable weirdos! Befriend and investi-DATE 9 potential suspects. Use psychic powers to astral project into The Artworld and discover secrets. Unmask the mysterious ART KILLER that’s terrorising your campus!
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Pages of Tomorrow
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Top pick for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
Challenge fate in this psychological visual novel about a juvenile psych ward patient who discovers a book that can predict the future.
To Find A Home
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Second-strongest match for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? A haunted house full of fellow supernaturals. Find love and friendship in this supernatural amare VN with found family feels, 3 love interests and multiple endings.
The Other Side of the Wall
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Third-strongest match for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
Julian Reed is a 13-year old student at a New England all-boys Catholic boarding school in the early 1980s. When people begin disappearing and no one else seems to remember they ever existed, Julian investigates, with the help of a girl he has never seen, separated from him by a wall.
AdventureSteam ↗PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
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Ranked #4 for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
Something's hiding in the cassette. Rearrange the words of your enemies to investigate a small-town conspiracy in this mystery puzzle game.
Blood Lily: Killers Can't Sink a Yuri Ship
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Ranked #5 for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
A B-horror mystery comedy adventure game. Having a crush on your bestie is hard enough without serial killers in the way! Lily's vacay plan to romance her crush Sally goes wrong when killers keep cropping up and ruining the mood. And that means war. "How dare you come between Sally and me!"
Blood Lily Ghoststories
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Ranked #6 for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
A horror game about a needy female ghost. A trio of close-knit occult club girls gather late at night to enjoy telling ghost stories. Little do they know that Miss Choker, a ghost that targets girls, is just dying to appear...
Affictionate
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Ranked #7 for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
After a year of bad dates and failed job applications, you've nearly given up on the love story you've always written about. One night, you write your perfect man into a notebook... the next day, he becomes a reality. A romance visual novel about identity and the line between fiction and reality.
Beyond The Mist: Beginnings
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Ranked #8 for ShelfLife: Art School Detective fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
A romance-driven narrative about destiny, devotion, and the dangerous pull of belonging, set against the ruins of a long‑lost city calling you home.
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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 ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
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 ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Simulation with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
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 ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 ShelfLife: Art School Detective.
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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- What games are most similar to ShelfLife: Art School Detective?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ShelfLife: Art School Detective are Pages of Tomorrow, To Find A Home, The Other Side of the Wall.
- Who developed ShelfLife: Art School Detective?
- ShelfLife: Art School Detective was developed by Fnife Games.
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