Games like Through the Lens
If Through the Lens is your kind of game, the closest matches are 女神保卫战, Summer's Gone - Season 1 and Woman's Prison — 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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Players who liked Through the Lens also play
Steam players who put hours into Through the Lens 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.
Summer's Gone - Season 1
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Through the Lens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
Summer's Gone is a high-quality, Interactive Visual Novel. This game is about healing, hope, and love. Overcome obstacles together, face demons of the past, and eventually... be happy.
Woman's Prison
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Through the Lens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Through the Lens.
One day you were dispatched to a women's prison to take charge of the lives of the female prisoners and explore the inner secrets of those girls. There are six girls to be explored.
Life With a College Girl
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Through the Lens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Through the Lens.
I became acquainted with a girl called Snow on a sugar daddy site. I asked to meet her out of boredom, but she turned out to be a cute college girl who asked me to bring her home! What was more, the first day I brought her home, she asked to have sex with me without a condom?! What was the story behind this Snow...?
Love X Crotch X GYM
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Through the Lens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
With a well-toned physique, opportunities for romantic encounters will come knocking on their own. Just imagine, if one day you could spend two months in an all-female fitness center, serving as the exclusive one-on-one personal trainer for these VIP members. How wonderful would that be?
Happiness Double Room
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Through the Lens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
It's the end of summer, and you've been abducted by a sister you've known for a long time. Forget all your past troubles, distress and everything bothersome, just spend your time happily with Sister in the days to come!
Lust Theory - Season 1
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Through the Lens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
Lust Theory is an adult Visual Novel in which you take control of a 20-year-old guy whose life is turned upside down when he finds out the same day is repeating. The game is packed with sex, humor, romance, drama and mystery.
Rich Lady's Slave Role Play
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Through the Lens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Through the Lens.
I reluctantly agreed to accommodate my difficult supervisor from the company I had previously worked for – but, in return, she started to “play slave” as her payment! She’s calling me “master” and occasionally stripping me of my clothes, even putting her hands on me! What the hell was going on!?!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Through the Lens at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Through the Lens.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Lens.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Through the Lens.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Through the Lens.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Through the Lens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Through the Lens.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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 Through the Lens.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Through the Lens.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Through the Lens.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Through the Lens.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Through the Lens.
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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Frequently asked about Through the Lens
- Does Through the Lens work on Steam Deck?
- Through the Lens is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Through the Lens cost?
- Through the Lens is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Through the Lens?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Through the Lens are 女神保卫战, Summer's Gone - Season 1, Woman's Prison.
- Who developed Through the Lens?
- Through the Lens was developed by PiggyNose Games.
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 Through the Lens.
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