Games like Freshman Year
If Freshman Year is your kind of game, the closest matches are Invisible Apartment, Cibele and Written in the Sky — 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 Freshman Year: Freshman Year is a vignette game about an ordinary night in the life a college freshman named Nina. Nina's best friend Jenna invites her to meet up at a local bar with some classmates. Jenna is sort of flaky though, so Nina has to navigate the party by herself.
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Steam players who put hours into Freshman Year 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.
Invisible Apartment
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Top pick for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Cyberpunk Visual Novel about a girl hacker struggling in a modern World. The story revolves around surveillance, hacking, artificial intelligence, cybernetic implants and those who want to lead a normal life in a high-tech society.
Cibele
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Second-strongest match for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Cibele is a game about love, sex, and the internet. You play as a 19 year old girl who has become close with a young man she met in an online game. Her relationship with him heats up, becoming more and more intimate with each phone call and private chat.
Written in the Sky
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Third-strongest match for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Azure comes across a strange ring one day. This ring changes her future drastically making each day action packed.
how do you Do It?
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Ranked #4 for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
"how do you Do It?" puts players in the role of an 11-year-old girl whose mother has just stepped out for an errand. The girl immediately grabs her dolls and furtively attempts to figure out how sex works using these plastic surrogates.
A Mortician's Tale
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Ranked #5 for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
Shan Gui (山桂)
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Ranked #6 for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
It is the end of summer. Han Hui, a university student, meets a mysterious young girl named He Jia in the mountains. After this chance meeting, the two embark on a delightful journey.
Beyond Eyes
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Ranked #7 for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Beyond Eyes is a modern fairy tale about finding courage and friendship. Step by step, uncover an incredible world, carefully guiding Rae, a young blind girl, on a life changing journey.
Journal
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Ranked #8 for Freshman Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Freshman Year.
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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Frequently asked about Freshman Year
- Is Freshman Year free to play?
- Yes — Freshman Year is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Freshman Year?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Freshman Year are Invisible Apartment, Cibele, Written in the Sky.
- Who developed Freshman Year?
- Freshman Year was developed by Nina Freeman, Laura Knetzger, Stephen Lawrence Clark and published by N/A.
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 Freshman Year.
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