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Games like Garden of Love

If Garden of Love is your kind of game, the closest matches are King's Angel: Otome, Falling for Yaoguais and While Shifu's Away: Senior Sister, I've Fallen for You! — 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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About Garden of Love: Her old love still lingers in her mind like a cactus, nurtured by tears. Its thorns still hurt her, but life goes on. It's time to bring new plants to the garden! Meet 5 guys in her daily routine and choose the new relationship to nurture in this visual novel about love, endings and beginnings.

IndieAdventureSimulationCasualWindowsby Cointoss Studio
Garden of Love — Steam game cover

Players who liked Garden of Love also play

Steam players who put hours into Garden of Love 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. King's Angel: Otome

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Garden of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Garden of Love.

    Travel through alternate timelines, solve the mystery and find love in a cursed kingdom!

    AdventureSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Falling for Yaoguais

    WHY THIS

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

    Drama! Crisis! And four charming or adorable Taiwanese Yaoguai(supernatural beings) love interests! Over 150 choices lead you through a romantic adventure—who will you choose? Or... will you choose them all?

    2025IndieAdventureCasual6.39 USDSteam ↗
  3. While Shifu's Away: Senior Sister, I've Fallen for You!

    WHY THIS

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

    Shifu is away, and your shy junior brother can no longer hide his feelings. Play as the senior sister in a sweet xianxia romance visual novel where replies and daily choices shape your bond and lead to different endings. And yes, the main characters sing original songs!

    IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  4. Northanger Abbey

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Garden of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Garden of Love.

    Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.

    2026IndieRPGCasualSteam ↗
  5. Enjoy Amoy&Sisters

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Garden of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden of Love.

    ‌"Enjoy Amoy & Sisters"‌ is a live-action interactive romance game. You play as an overseas Chinese person who, in response to the invitation from the two female leads, Ah Yin and Xiao Xi, visits Xiamen, the ancestral hometown, for the first time.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Alaris

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Garden of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden of Love.

    Discover secrets long forgotten, and nurture relationships waiting to bloom. In a game inspired by the lore of Dragon and Fae, make choices that can shape your story, relationships, and even personality. Will you be brave, kind, wise, charismatic? Only you know the answer to your fate.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation9.59 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bewitching Sinners

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Garden of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Garden of Love.

    Bewitching Sinners is a dark comedy dating sim where your choices will either leave you with your true love or ruin a whole world and potentially killing millions of people within it, no pressure! Explore a fantasy world full of witches, hot priests, and the occasional dance with death.

    2024IndieCasual17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Lost in Secular Love

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Garden of Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden of Love.

    A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 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 and Casual with Garden of Love.

    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 Garden of Love.

    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 Garden of Love.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garden of Love.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  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 Garden of Love.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Garden of Love.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Garden of Love.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Garden of Love.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Garden of Love

What games are most similar to Garden of Love?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Garden of Love are King's Angel: Otome, Falling for Yaoguais, While Shifu's Away: Senior Sister, I've Fallen for You!.
Who developed Garden of Love?
Garden of Love was developed by Cointoss Studio.

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 Garden of Love.

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