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Games like Paradise

If Paradise is your kind of game, the closest matches are Masquerade: Hell Academy, Paradise: Musubi and Sisters: Last Day of Summer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, dark and emotional. 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 Paradise: Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.

2024AdventureCasual15.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby PIL/SLASH
Paradise — Steam game cover
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Beautiful character artwork and cg scenesCharacter routes reveal hidden depthsComplex characters that become deeply compelling despite initial impressionsComedicDarkEmotional

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Steam players who put hours into Paradise 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. Masquerade: Hell Academy

    WHY THIS

    Shares choice driven narrative, visual novel style, atmospheric and a grim mood with Paradise.

    Top pick for Paradise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Paradise.

    A Boys Love visual novel set around a pulse-pounding hostage situation. Can Numata make it out of things unscathed? Every choice matters! Fully translated into English with the original Japanese voice acting intact.

    2025AdventureCasual11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Paradise: Musubi

    WHY THIS

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

    The first sequel to the Boys Love visual novel Paradise. Play through the continuation of the original game's good endings, and unlock flashbacks to the first Paradise from new perspectives. Contains new CGs, characters, and lots of romance!

    2026Adventure13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sisters: Last Day of Summer

    WHY THIS

    Shares choice driven narrative, visual novel style, story heavy and an emotional mood with Paradise.

    Third-strongest match for Paradise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Paradise.

    A fully-animated visual novel about a boy who wakes up in an unknown house with two beautiful sisters, their mother, and an unspoken truth.

    2024AdventureCasual24.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Until Then

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an emotional mood with Paradise.

    Ranked #4 for Paradise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Paradise.

    A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Fearbonding

    WHY THIS

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

    Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?

    2025IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty

    WHY THIS

    Shares choice driven narrative, branching narrative, atmospheric and a grim mood with Paradise.

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

    He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Paradise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Paradise.

    Your girlfriend seems to be hiding something. Will you respect her privacy or pry into her secrets? Don't worry, though. This is a horror dating sim with a time loop, so you can try again...and again...and again...

    2022IndieAdventureRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Suicide Countdown: 7 Days

    WHY THIS

    Shares branching narrative and dialogue choices with Paradise.

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

    Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and ghastly series of events... When fate comes knocking, will you have the courage to make a choice?

    2021IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Paradise.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Paradise.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Paradise.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Paradise.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Paradise.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Paradise.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Paradise.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~94% under Paradise on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Paradise.

    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 ↗

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 Casual with Paradise.

    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. Shares Adventure with Paradise.

    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 Adventure with Paradise.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Paradise

Does Paradise run on Steam Deck?
Paradise is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Paradise cost?
Paradise is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Paradise?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paradise are Masquerade: Hell Academy, Paradise: Musubi, Sisters: Last Day of Summer.
Who developed Paradise?
Paradise was developed by PIL/SLASH and published by JAST BLUE, JAST.

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 Paradise.

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