Games like Hermes Library
If Hermes Library is your kind of game, the closest matches are TechnoMANCER, Front Page and Impartial — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Hermes Library: Hermes Library is a simulation game in which you will play as the new librarian Rainn Echo. In six weeks, you will be helping people to borrow and return books, while discovering hidden messages in books, meeting new friends and unraveling the mysteries happening at Hephaestus University.
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TechnoMANCER
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Top pick for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hermes Library.
Take on the titular role and perform remote rituals to banish distant entities from the Otherworld.
SimulationSteam ↗Front Page
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Second-strongest match for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
As Editor of an independent newspaper, you are in charge of printing daily front pages. You decide which story you want to publish, and see the world change depending on your choices and actions. What kind of Editor will you become?
Impartial
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Third-strongest match for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
Impartial is an intriguing short 2D narrative game where you take on the role as a conflict resolver - tasked with resolving moral dilemmas between the Police Force and Superheroes to fight crime in Neo-Victorian London.
Chalk Paper Scissors
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Ranked #4 for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
A visual novel/sidescroller about estranged childhood friends, Chalk, Paper, and Scissors. Explore each character's memories in different stylized worlds to find out exactly what happened to their shared childhood plushie, Stuffie all those years ago...
Morningtide Motel
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Ranked #5 for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Suzerain
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Ranked #6 for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Hermes Library.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Syntherapy
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Ranked #7 for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.
Aether & Iron
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Ranked #8 for Hermes Library fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Hermes Library.
Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s where anti-gravitational technology has taken cars, roads, and even New York City into the sky. Muster a crew, master tactical turn-based combat, and unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the floating metropolis.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hermes Library at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~65% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
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
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Priced ~65% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Hermes Library.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~44% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hermes Library.
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?
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~57% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hermes Library.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~44% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hermes Library.
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...
How to Fish
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Priced ~66% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~65% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
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
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Priced ~65% under Hermes Library on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hermes Library.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hermes Library.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hermes Library.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hermes Library.
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 Hermes Library.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hermes Library.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hermes Library.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hermes Library.
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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Frequently asked about Hermes Library
- How much does Hermes Library cost?
- Hermes Library is listed on Steam at 14.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hermes Library?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hermes Library are TechnoMANCER, Front Page, Impartial.
- Who developed Hermes Library?
- Hermes Library was developed by SoaringHeart.
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