Games like About an Elf
If About an Elf is your kind of game, the closest matches are CAT Interstellar: Recast, Super Seducer : How to Talk to Girls and Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno — 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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CAT Interstellar: Recast
WHY THIS
Top pick for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The first iteration in a fight for Android freedom.
Super Seducer : How to Talk to Girls
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with About an Elf.
Learn state-of-the-art seduction secrets from the master himself, Richard La Ruina, in this incredibly valuable live action seduction simulator.
Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
Patches is dragged to school for the first ever cat-and-dog school day! All he needs to do is get this damn collar off and wreck some havoc! Will he prove cats and dogs can get along, or will he make this the Purrfect Apawcalypse?
Swordbreaker The Game
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Ranked #4 for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
The Swordbreaker game is interactive fiction with lots of illustrations where you and you alone get to choose the storyline and the ending!
QUIET DAN
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Ranked #5 for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
ghostpia Season One
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with About an Elf.
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.
Tamarindos Freaking Dinner
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Ranked #7 for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
Mascot Horror in a 90´s escape room! deliver your pizza order to Tagomago´s Mansion, but be careful, dinner is not the pizza..its YOU! escape from this haunted house and his 7 cannibalish inhabitants in a time loop with more than 25 endings! EVERY MONTH NEW ROOMS AND ENDINGS ADDED! (◣__◢ )
Chicken Police - Paint it RED!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for About an Elf fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below About an Elf at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
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
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Priced ~63% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Indie with About an Elf.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
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.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with About an Elf.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with About an Elf.
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!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~50% under About an Elf on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with About an Elf.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
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 Casual with About an Elf.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with About an Elf.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with About an Elf.
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 and Casual with About an Elf.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with About an Elf.
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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Frequently asked about About an Elf
- How much does About an Elf cost?
- About an Elf is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to About an Elf?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside About an Elf are CAT Interstellar: Recast, Super Seducer : How to Talk to Girls, Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno.
- Who developed About an Elf?
- About an Elf was developed by Meringue Interactive.
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