Games like Hearth & Holmes
If Hearth & Holmes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced, Northanger Abbey and The Good Husband — 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.
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Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
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Top pick for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Northanger Abbey
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Second-strongest match for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
The Good Husband
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Third-strongest match for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
You are a good husband. You cook, you clean, and you take your medication. But as your home slowly turns into a nightmare, you must answer one question: Is your wife hiding a demonic secret, or are you just losing your mind? Survive 7 days in this tense psychological domestic horror.
How to grow a man : Turning Chumps to Hunks
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Ranked #4 for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
Raise Chris over four years, shape his future, and pursue romance with seven unique men in this BL life and dating simulation. Your choices determine his career, relationships, and ending.
Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator
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Ranked #5 for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
Become a legendary detective of ancient China! In "Di Renjie: The Legendary Investigator", play as Di Renjie, solving thrilling cases across Bianzhou and Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty and uncovering the truth.
7 Years at Sea
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Ranked #6 for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Hearth & Holmes.
It’s the golden years of piracy! You, a cursed captain must sail the seas to prove your worthiness to the supernatural being who has claimed your soul. Make your way across the Islands, plunder other ships and complete quests, all while managing your supplies and crew.
Within the Inner Palace
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Ranked #7 for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
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Ranked #8 for Hearth & Holmes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hearth & Holmes.
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hearth & Holmes.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hearth & Holmes.
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 Hearth & Holmes.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hearth & Holmes.
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 Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
‘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 Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
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!
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hearth & Holmes.
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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Frequently asked about Hearth & Holmes
- What games are most similar to Hearth & Holmes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hearth & Holmes are Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced, Northanger Abbey, The Good Husband.
- Who developed Hearth & Holmes?
- Hearth & Holmes was developed by Abigail Corfman and published by Open Sorcery 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 Hearth & Holmes.
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