Free games like Sunshine Love Chapter 1
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Sunshine Love Chapter 1, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Sunshine Love Chapter 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.
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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Love Chapter 1.
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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Killer Chat! - Original Edition
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Love Chapter 1.
Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?
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Everlasting Summer
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Sunshine Love Chapter 1.
Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!
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College Kings - The Complete Season
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Sunshine Love Chapter 1.
College Kings - The Complete Season (Acts I-III Combined): Sex, girls, parties, and power. As a freshman at San Vallejo College, you have the whole world in front of you. Will you let the next four years pass you by, or will you lead your fraternity to the crown and become campus royalty?
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Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Love Chapter 1.
Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?
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Emily is Away
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunshine Love Chapter 1.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
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Love Sucks: Night One
Free-to-play alternative to Sunshine Love Chapter 1 — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Casual with Sunshine Love Chapter 1.
Love Sucks is an adult Visual Novel, in which monster-kind has secretly integrated with humanity. Two monster girls, a vampire and a succubus have chosen you to be their date this Halloween! But their motives go beyond just showing you a good time...