Games like The Thistle and the Flower
If The Thistle and the Flower is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bittersweet Blossoms, Once Upon a Throne of Thorns and All Idleness and Ephemera — 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 The Thistle and the Flower: A short and smutty boys' love / yaoi visual novel set in Victorian England about a cocksure servant's attempts to turn his aloof, awkward master into his own personal plaything.
Players who liked The Thistle and the Flower also play
Steam players who put hours into The Thistle and the Flower 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.
Bittersweet Blossoms
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Top pick for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A lesbian romance set in England shortly after WWI. The story centres around Dot, a young maid who begins to work in the crumbling stately home of Bly, and her young mistress: the devious, devilish Patience.
Once Upon a Throne of Thorns
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Second-strongest match for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A dark fantasy boys' love / yaoi visual novel about an assassin who falls for the runaway prince he has been entasked with killing.
All Idleness and Ephemera
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
A lewd boys love / BL / yaoi visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired universe about a couple of cousins who like one another a perfectly normal amount. The story contains a lot of explicit sexual content.
Unluckily in Love
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Ranked #4 for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A cute boys love / BL / yaoi visual novel about a slowly developing romantic relationship between a couple of cousins.
Horny Housewives Booty Call Blackmail
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Ranked #5 for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
Beautiful babes beware, the CEO's son is here! The two sexiest housewives in the neighborhood will have to do whatever it takes to please him so their poor husbands can keep their jobs. Its not like his huge cock would awaken the latent lust burning inside them, and they'd start to enjoy it right?
Salome's Kiss
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Ranked #6 for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A dark lesbian / yuri gothic romance tale set in Victorian England, in which an anxious governess is aggressively pursued by her unruly, tempestuous pupil.
Strawberry Vinegar
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Ranked #7 for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!
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Ranked #8 for The Thistle and the Flower fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
In this yuri visual novel featuring an all-star cast, you follow one main love triangle as they navigate their budding romance and the pursuit of their goals, unlocking new, heartwarming events to view from the perspectives of each cute girl in six other precious couples as well.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Thistle and the Flower at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~44% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
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 ~44% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
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 ~44% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
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 ~67% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~44% under The Thistle and the Flower on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Thistle and the Flower.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
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 The Thistle and the Flower.
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 Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
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 The Thistle and the Flower.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from ebi-hime
Other recommendable Steam games by ebi-hime, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Blackberry Honey
WHY THIS
Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
A lesbian love story set in Victorian England, featuring maids, music, and finding love in unexpected places.
Sweetest Monster
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
Her Love, Like Poison
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
Cage of Roses
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
Strawberry Vinegar
WHY THIS
Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
The Fairy's Song
WHY THIS
Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A yuri / lesbian visual novel set in the UK. Marnie, a bored goth girl, accidentally stumbles upon a sleeping female knight in the forest. Together, the pair must work to break a centuries-old curse, while romantic feelings between them begin to grow.
Rituals in the Dark
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough. Our heroine, Aspen, meets the mysterious, beautiful Althea in the dead of night, but who is Althea really...?
The Way We All Go (2015)
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Another title from ebi-hime, the studio behind The Thistle and the Flower. Shares Indie with The Thistle and the Flower.
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Unluckily in Love
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A cute boys love / BL / yaoi visual novel about a slowly developing romantic relationship between a couple of cousins.
Salome's Kiss
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A dark lesbian / yuri gothic romance tale set in Victorian England, in which an anxious governess is aggressively pursued by her unruly, tempestuous pupil.
Strawberry Vinegar
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Thistle and the Flower.
A cute comedy yuri VN about a gluttonous demon and a cynical young girl centered around the most important thing in life: food! ♥
Frequently asked about The Thistle and the Flower
- How much does The Thistle and the Flower cost?
- The Thistle and the Flower is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Thistle and the Flower?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Thistle and the Flower are Bittersweet Blossoms, Once Upon a Throne of Thorns, All Idleness and Ephemera.
- Who developed The Thistle and the Flower?
- The Thistle and the Flower was developed by ebi-hime.
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