Games like Love starts again
If Love starts again is your kind of game, the closest matches are Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday, Roommates, Romance, and Ringing Hearts and Beauties! They're All After Me — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its grounded character interactions, cozy and emotional. 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 Love starts again: A live-action romance adventure with high-definition images from a first-person perspective. A love drama begins with a friend, a childhood friend, a junior from high school, a senior at a part-time job, an influencer you like, and a student you saved from a delinquent...
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Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style, slice of life and a melancholic mood with Love starts again.
Top pick for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love starts again.
在本作中，“你”化身为即将迎来毕业季的男主顾易，在对未来的迷茫与憧憬中，你将与六位性格迥异、各具魅力的女生发生一连串的故事，她们或是鬼马少女、或是温柔甜心、猫系娇女、豆腐西施，千娇百媚、亦幻亦真，敬过往。
Roommates, Romance, and Ringing Hearts
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style, slice of life and a cozy mood with Love starts again.
Second-strongest match for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Love starts again.
Co-produced by TV Asahi and Aiming, this “drama-level” live-action romance game lets you experience a year of love, laughter, and longing. Decode the subtle signals of affection and create your own unforgettable love story.
Beauties! They're All After Me
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style, visual novel style and a lighthearted mood with Love starts again.
Third-strongest match for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love starts again.
In this thrilling romance game, players are a working-class hero meeting six girls: a loli, a mature woman, a housewife, a soft girl, a domineering CEO, and a cute, naive girl. As he gets involved with them, he awakens a cheating system—can you believe it?! Make your final choice now!
Love Is All Around
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, branching narrative, character driven and an emotional mood with Love starts again.
Ranked #4 for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love starts again.
The player becomes Gu Yi, uses the first-person perspective to immerse himself in meeting six beauties, and embarks on a joyful and sweet love journey with them. Six girls that are charming, innocent, intelligent, wild, sexy, glamorous, who will go to the end with you is up to you to decide.
BeYourCat
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style, visual novel style and an emotional mood with Love starts again.
Ranked #5 for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love starts again.
"Be Your Cat " is a real love game,like an experience in life, one interesting dream. We all wish we had superpowers, but what would you do if one day you had superpowers, but not like Superman? What will you do with your limited abilities? How does it affect and change the people around you?
Speed Dates
WHY THIS
Shares character interaction, relationship building, slice of life and a lighthearted mood with Love starts again.
Ranked #6 for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love starts again.
Embark Speed Dates, where you control first dates with 18 attractive women in this interactive FMV game. Shape your story with charm and humor for a personalized romantic journey.
Love Begins With Goodbye
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style, story heavy and a poignant mood with Love starts again.
Ranked #7 for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Love starts again.
As a male exchange student at Norway's University of Bergen, you live with three girls: Chinese student Luo Xue'er, mysterious landlady Laya, and Inora, a Norwegian learning Chinese. Weave your love story with them over six months, starting from a "goodbye."
Rebirth! New Lover
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, visual novel style, slice of life and a cozy mood with Love starts again.
Ranked #8 for Love starts again fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Love starts again.
Song Xuan unexpectedly traveled to ancient times, where he met several emotional partners who sincerely treated him. There are Qing'er,Xiaobai, Gu Qiuhan,Lin Miaoxian and Mingyue Rao. He had so many humorous and sweet love stories with them.
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Five Hearts Under One Roof
WHY THIS
Shares character interaction, relationship building, slice of life and an emotional mood with Love starts again.
Reviewers of Love starts again cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Love starts again.
Yuman’s, the player, once solitary home and routine are now invaded by five beautiful women! Each has her unique charm – the 'childhood friend of 20 years,' the 'first love and former idol,' the 'demanding boss,' the 'bold younger girl,' and the 'shy recluse.' Who will you choose?
Hello Love: 18 Again
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, branching narrative, story heavy and an emotional mood with Love starts again.
Reviewers of Love starts again cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Love starts again.
Unexpectedly back at 18, you embark on a thrilling and sweet campus rebirth journey with the memories! The campus goddess, the sexy girl, the childhood sweetheart, the frigid CEO, the gentle teacher. Who will ignite your heart among the dreams and regrets of youth? Relive old dreams without regrets!
Don't FOOL ME, Beauties!
WHY THIS
Shares character interaction, relationship building, casual and a cozy mood with Love starts again.
Reviewers of Love starts again cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Love starts again.
"Get out!!!" Kicked out in the dead of winter, you land a job at a shady hotel. But work’s not the only challenge, there’s the CEO’s cold-hearted granddaughter, a lazy senior, a diva model, and your childhood friend who makes you do her laundry?! Who will you charm in this chaotic love game?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Love starts again at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love starts again.
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 Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Love starts again.
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 Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love starts again.
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 Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Love starts again.
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 Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Love starts again.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love starts again.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Love starts again.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Love starts again on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love starts again.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Love starts again.
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. Shares Adventure with Love starts again.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love starts again.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love starts again.
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 Love starts again.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Love starts again.
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.
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 Love starts again.
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.
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Frequently asked about Love starts again
- Does Love starts again run on Steam Deck?
- Love starts again is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Love starts again cost?
- Love starts again is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Love starts again?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Love starts again are Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday, Roommates, Romance, and Ringing Hearts, Beauties! They're All After Me.
- Who developed Love starts again?
- Love starts again was developed by WWWave Corporation.
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