Free games like Sani Yang's Laboratory
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to Sani Yang's Laboratory, 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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A Date with Death
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Sani Yang's Laboratory.
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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Sounds of Her Love
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window. Shares Adventure with Sani Yang's Laboratory.
In the midst of their hearts, something is blossoming between two students. Both of whom go about their daily lives at an international school in Tokyo. Just what is flowering? Of course, it's love. Starting your new life after transferring into an international school, you find yourself dismayed when it turns out to be the same as any...
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Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Sani Yang's Laboratory.
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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Lovers of Aether
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Sani Yang's Laboratory.
Are you tired of fighting? Lovers of Aether is the game for you! This is a wholesome animal dating simulator set in the world of Rivals of Aether.
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Blush Blush
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Sani Yang's Laboratory.
You are responsible somehow for a curse that befalls 12 unfortunate hawt dudes. Now you have to find them and break the curse with your love!!
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家有大貓 Nekojishi
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window.
Nekojishi is a visual novel about feline beast-men, Taiwanese folklore, and the pressures and consequences that come with navigating the world of gods and spirits.
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Seduce Me the Otome
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window. Shares Simulation with Sani Yang's Laboratory.
A romantic comedy visual novel centered around a girl named Mika Anderson, who gets entangled in the affairs of incubi.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play alternative to Sani Yang's Laboratory — no purchase or trial window.
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.