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Games like Relieve

If Relieve is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Sketchbook About Her Sun, 爱人 Lover and Afterlove EP — 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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About Relieve: "Relieve" is a hand-drawn comic style narrative puzzle visual novel with unique art and high-quality music. It allows you to experience the story of a couple's separation and reunion from different perspectives.

2024Indie5.84 USDWindowsby Salt Game Studio
Relieve — Steam game cover

Players who liked Relieve also play

Steam players who put hours into Relieve 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.

  1. A Sketchbook About Her Sun

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.

    2021IndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 爱人 Lover

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    发生在中国的三段绝对本土又完全不同的故事,由校园篇、古代篇、都市篇组成,均以女性第一视角展开。

    2021IndieRPGCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Afterlove EP

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.

    2025IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Why do you love me?

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    A short romantic novel about modern relationships. We took some situations from life and tried to answer the question "why do people love each other?".

    2024IndieCasual2.69 USDSteam ↗
  5. Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    在本作中,“你”化身为即将迎来毕业季的男主顾易,在对未来的迷茫与憧憬中,你将与六位性格迥异、各具魅力的女生发生一连串的故事,她们或是鬼马少女、或是温柔甜心、猫系娇女、豆腐西施,千娇百媚、亦幻亦真,敬过往。

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure7.25 USDSteam ↗
  6. 锈翅 逃离我的家乡 Without Wings

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    玩家将以第一视角,扮演一名高中辍学的女孩,她被迫进入注塑厂打工。后来,她通过一款网络游戏,认识了大城市里的男孩阿澈,她义无反顾地向着有阿澈的未来奔去,也是向着能够逃离大山的未来奔去。在这跨越千里的鸿沟之间,她经历了期待、欣喜、意外、无助……最终,你将做出怎样的选择?

    2025IndieRPGCasual4.54 USDSteam ↗
  7. 记得我

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Remember Me is a galgame with a male first-person perspective. Players will play a high school student Lin Yining, and three girls launched their own story. It's up to you to choose between the hidden past and the future to reveal.

    2021Casual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Relieve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!

    2022IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Relieve at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~66% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~74% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Super Hexagon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

    2012ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Nodebuster

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sally Face - Episode One

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Relieve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.

    2016IndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 Relieve.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Relieve.

    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.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Relieve

How much does Relieve cost?
Relieve is listed on Steam at 5.84 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Relieve?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Relieve are A Sketchbook About Her Sun, 爱人 Lover, Afterlove EP.
Who developed Relieve?
Relieve was developed by Salt Game Studio and published by Kylinhall 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 Relieve.

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