Games like Where it all Began - Season 1
If Where it all Began - Season 1 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Life on Mars (MiZtyl), Bench Simulator and Heatwave: Sam's Stay — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, comedic and dark. 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 Where it all Began - Season 1: Where It All Began invites you into a rich, immersive world as an interactive visual novel with dating elements that marks the beginning of an expansive universe. It’s a journey of reconnection, healing, and triumph over past traumas, all while navigating the rise of a criminal empire.
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Steam players who put hours into Where it all Began - Season 1 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.
Life on Mars (MiZtyl)
WHY THIS
Top pick for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Where it all Began - Season 1.
In Life on Mars, you can have a happy ending (Gentleman Ending or Domination Ending), a neutral ending (Sharing Ending) or a sad ending (Beta Male Ending) depending on how you play.
Bench Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
You are a park bench. Watch strangers sit, talk, break down, fall in love, argue, and reveal their secrets in a story-rich narrative simulation where your smallest reactions can change everything.
Heatwave: Sam's Stay
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Step into Sam’s shoes and guide him through a summer of self-discovery, complicated relationships, and unexpected desires that will change everything.
Love All My Girls
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
What would you do with infinite resurrection and time travel? Predict the future, save the world, get rich overnight… or date six girls at once? You’ve lived every man’s dream but stepped into a fatal trap. You’re just trying to make them all happy—what’s wrong with that?
Sweet Hamster Days
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
I got reincarnated... as a hamster! My owners are three sisters: a charming cosplayer, a straight-laced and caring one, and one with a sharp tongue and a sweet side. I'm being showered in love... but who will I fall in love with?
Island of Hearts
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
After a rough breakup, you do what any reasonable person would: escape to a remote tropical island full of beautiful strangers. There, you’ll meet many captivating women, each with her own charm, secrets, and questionable taste in men. Your choices decide who you love, lose, or accidentally ghost.
Summer's Gone - Season 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Ranked #7 for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Summer's Gone is a high-quality, Interactive Visual Novel. This game is about healing, hope, and love. Overcome obstacles together, face demons of the past, and eventually... be happy.
My Future Wife (InsanErotica)
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Where it all Began - Season 1 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Where it all Began - Season 1.
In My Future Wife, you can have a happy ending (Romance Ending or Harem Ending), a neutral ending (Sharing Ending) or a sad ending (NTR Ending) depending on how you play.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Where it all Began - Season 1
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Leap of Faith
WHY THIS
Shares choice consequences, branching narrative and a melancholic mood with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Reviewers of Where it all Began - Season 1 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Where it all Began - Season 1.
You thought it was going to be just another summer. You were wrong.
Chasing Sunsets
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Reviewers of Where it all Began - Season 1 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Where it all Began - Season 1.
When your mother remarries, her new husband's fiery daughter enters your life. After forming an initial strong connection, misunderstanding pushes you apart. Years later, reunited by tragedy and conspiracy, the two of you must choose a path to follow: Will you be rivals, friends, or lovers?
Summer's Gone - Season 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Reviewers of Where it all Began - Season 1 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Summer's Gone is a high-quality, Interactive Visual Novel. This game is about healing, hope, and love. Overcome obstacles together, face demons of the past, and eventually... be happy.
Desert Stalker
WHY THIS
Shares choice consequences, relationship building, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Reviewers of Where it all Began - Season 1 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Early Access with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Step in the shoes of the titular Desert Stalker, and scour the wasteland for artifacts and erotic encounters in this acclaimed Adult Visual Novel where your choices shape the game’s story. Dive into a world filled with grit, sex, and unparalleled power fantasies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Where it all Began - Season 1 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Where it all Began - Season 1.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Where it all Began - Season 1.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Where it all Began - Season 1.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Where it all Began - Season 1 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Where it all Began - Season 1.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Where it all Began - Season 1.
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 with Where it all Began - Season 1.
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 and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Where it all Began - Season 1.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Where it all Began - Season 1.
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.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Where it all Began - Season 1.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Where it all Began - Season 1
- Does Where it all Began - Season 1 run on Steam Deck?
- Where it all Began - Season 1 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 Where it all Began - Season 1 cost?
- Where it all Began - Season 1 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Where it all Began - Season 1?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Where it all Began - Season 1 are Life on Mars (MiZtyl), Bench Simulator, Heatwave: Sam's Stay.
- Who developed Where it all Began - Season 1?
- Where it all Began - Season 1 was developed by OceanAVN.
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