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Games like The Boba Teashop

If The Boba Teashop is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kiosk, The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー and The Ramen Shop — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crafting drinks feels meditative, atmospheric and cozy. 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 Boba Teashop: A cozy horror game where you own and manage a boba tea shop. Prepare boba teas, serve customers, and expand your menu to grow your business.

2025ActionIndieAdventureSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Mike Ten
The Boba Teashop — Steam game cover
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Atmosphere shifts from cozy to horrifyingCozy barista job flipping into horror unexpectedlyCrafting drinks feels meditativeAtmosphericCozyDark

Players who liked The Boba Teashop also play

Steam players who put hours into The Boba Teashop 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. Kiosk

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management, replayability, horror and an atmospheric mood with The Boba Teashop.

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

    Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Boba Teashop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー is a Japanese-style horror game where you play as a sushi chef working the night shift.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Ramen Shop

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Boba Teashop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    A horror game where you manage a ramen shop. Take orders from your customers, serve hot delicious ramens and sweet cold drinks to hungry customers.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Nightmare Shift

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management, psychological and an atmospheric mood with The Boba Teashop.

    Ranked #4 for The Boba Teashop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boba Teashop.

    Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation8.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Exit: Left or Right

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Boba Teashop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    You can go left or right, but remember, a mistake will cost you your life…

    2024ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. It follows you

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Boba Teashop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    You are all alone in this dark and frightening place. Run and hide, hurry to find a way out, because it follows you...

    2022ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Human Farm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Boba Teashop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    Welcome to Human Farm🐽 – an alternate, Orwellian world where Pigs became the dominant species. Humans are degraded to farmed meat. Create and develop your own slaughterhouse. Your goal: conquer and dominate the human meat industry. Millions of hungry snouts are waiting to be fed!

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. [Chilla's Art] Okaeri | おかえり

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Boba Teashop fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    Okaeri is a VHS Japanese psychological horror game about a middle school girl and her mother who recently moved to a new house.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Boba Teashop

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Matcha

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Boba Teashop cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with The Boba Teashop.

    Matcha is a simple puzzle game, built around the beautiful Korean writing system, Hangul.

    2022IndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Kiosk

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management, replayability, horror and an atmospheric mood with The Boba Teashop.

    Reviewers of The Boba Teashop cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boba Teashop.

    Kiosk is a horror cooking game where you prepare orders for late-night customers who visit your cozy, rain-soaked kiosk. The eerie atmosphere clashes with the mounting tension as you serve your mysterious visitors.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Salesman

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Boba Teashop cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boba Teashop.

    In the Salesman, you play as a recently laid-off employee trying to survive the grind of job applications, debt, and dwindling hope. Trade your belongings for ad-supported replacements as you slowly sell away your life in this psychological horror game

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boba Teashop.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Boba Teashop.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Boba Teashop.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Boba Teashop.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Boba Teashop.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Boba Teashop.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Boba Teashop on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Boba Teashop.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 and Casual with The Boba Teashop.

    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 Action and Adventure with The Boba Teashop.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. 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 Boba Teashop.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 The Boba Teashop.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Boba Teashop.

    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 ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Boba Teashop.

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Boba Teashop

Does The Boba Teashop run on Steam Deck?
The Boba Teashop 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 The Boba Teashop cost?
The Boba Teashop is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Boba Teashop?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Boba Teashop are Kiosk, The Sushi Bar | 寿司バー, The Ramen Shop.
Who developed The Boba Teashop?
The Boba Teashop was developed by Mike Ten.

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 Boba Teashop.

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