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Games like The Butterfly Collector

If The Butterfly Collector is your kind of game, the closest matches are 双相:水管(Bipolar: The Tube), CORPSE FACTORY and Sound of Drop - fall into poison - — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 The Butterfly Collector: investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl. The player advances and watches the plot by clicking to make choices for the heroine at key moments, with different choices leading to different endings.

2025IndieAdventure0.99 USDWindowsby Wicky Yu
The Butterfly Collector — Steam game cover
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Compact impactful narrative with high replay valueHyper realistic misogynistic dialogue feels eerily authenticInvestigative text fragments demand interpretation and reflectionAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into The Butterfly Collector 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. 双相:水管(Bipolar: The Tube)

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Butterfly Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    East-Asia-theme horror visual novel with tarot elements. This game shares the same world with When the Wind Knocks (Ready to Kill) and The Dead Daughter. If you have played that game, you will meet an old friend here.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. CORPSE FACTORY

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Butterfly Collector.

    Second-strongest match for The Butterfly Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Sound of Drop - fall into poison -

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Butterfly Collector.

    Third-strongest match for The Butterfly Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.

    2015IndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Tokyo Dark

    WHY THIS

    Shares dialogue choices, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with The Butterfly Collector.

    Ranked #4 for The Butterfly Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.

    2017Adventure17.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi

    WHY THIS

    Shares an emotional mood with The Butterfly Collector.

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

    Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

    2018Adventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Butterfly Collector.

    Ranked #6 for The Butterfly Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    The VR Edition of the critically acclaimed BAFTA award-winning Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness.

    2018ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Remothered: Tormented Fathers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Butterfly Collector.

    Ranked #7 for The Butterfly Collector fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    Remothered: Tormented Fathers is the pure and realistic survival horror videogame

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with The Butterfly Collector.

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

    Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".

    2017AdventureCasual17.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Shotgun Legend

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under The Butterfly Collector on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

    Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.

    2018ActionIndieRPG0.49 USDSteam ↗

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 Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

    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 The Butterfly Collector.

    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 Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    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. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Butterfly Collector.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Butterfly Collector.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 The Butterfly Collector.

    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 ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Butterfly Collector

How much does The Butterfly Collector cost?
The Butterfly Collector is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Butterfly Collector?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Butterfly Collector are 双相:水管(Bipolar: The Tube), CORPSE FACTORY, Sound of Drop - fall into poison -.
Who developed The Butterfly Collector?
The Butterfly Collector was developed by Wicky Yu.

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 The Butterfly Collector.

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