Games like My Dear Emma
If My Dear Emma is your kind of game, the closest matches are It Happened At Night, Riven and What Happened to Lily? — 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 My Dear Emma: Exploring beautiful landscapes and local wildlife. Become part of Emma’s story, a young biologist and nature photographer who has decided to start a new life far from the big city. A narrative-driven adventure to relax, feel, and slow down.
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Steam players who put hours into My Dear Emma 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.
It Happened At Night
WHY THIS
Top pick for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
It Happened At Night is a short horror game where the player must complete basic objectives to advance the story and immerse themselves through the eyes of the protagonist.
Riven
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
What Happened to Lily?
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
The Stillness of the Wind
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
A quiet game of life and loss. One by one, everyone left the village for the city. Everyone, except Talma. Approaching her final years, she maintains a simple way of life tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
ПОСЛЕДНИЙ ДЕНЬ В УРЮПИНСКЕ
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
THE LAST DAY IN URYUPINSK is an atmospheric walk through the post-Soviet courtyard to depressive music.
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
Welcome to Regilus, a paradise planet turned into a popular tourist destination! But your holiday adventure soon turned into a nightmare. Stranded on an alien planet you need to find your way out. Remember though, not everything here is as it seems.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
The Haunting of Joni Evers
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for My Dear Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
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. Shares Indie with My Dear Emma.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with My Dear Emma.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with My Dear Emma.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
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. Shares Indie with My Dear Emma.
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 Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
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. Shares Indie with My Dear Emma.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Riven
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
The Haunting of Joni Evers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with My Dear Emma.
The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.
Frequently asked about My Dear Emma
- What games are most similar to My Dear Emma?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside My Dear Emma are It Happened At Night, Riven, What Happened to Lily?.
- Who developed My Dear Emma?
- My Dear Emma was developed by Soulven Games.
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 My Dear Emma.
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