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Games like Exploring the Big Apple

If Exploring the Big Apple is your kind of game, the closest matches are Steps of Debauchery, Bright Lord and To Be A King - Volume 1 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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.

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About Exploring the Big Apple: Follow Emma and Patrick – a young married couple – on their adventure as they move to New York to start a new chapter in their lives. A temporary stay at an old friend’s soon reveals a lot about his past and their future…

2025ActionIndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOS · Linuxby SadPepper
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Players who liked Exploring the Big Apple also play

Steam players who put hours into Exploring the Big Apple 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. Steps of Debauchery

    WHY THIS

    Shares replayability, branching narrative, adult content and an atmospheric mood with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Top pick for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Follow the steps of Riley - a girl who is trying discover her sexuality and unreveal her fantasies. She takes on the role of a waitress in a bar, engages in activities with an elderly neighbor, has streaming adventures with his grandson... and that's just the tip of the mountain!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bright Lord

    WHY THIS

    Shares character interaction, visual novel style, adult content and an atmospheric mood with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Second-strongest match for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Your mundane life is upended when an ancient demon possesses your body. Forced to work as its servant, you’re thrust into a world of sexual desire and murderous wrath. When your loved ones fall prey to the demon’s hunger, will you protect those you care for or succumb to lust of the Bright Lord?

    2026ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. To Be A King - Volume 1

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Third-strongest match for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Be a newly appointed royal minister fresh out of the army, evade or contribute to the court drama. Alliances are breaking but you can make the difference. Choose who to bed or wed. Compete or consolidate with your foes. Only you have what it takes to be a king.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Adult Education

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Adult Education is a steamy visual novel set in an adult evening school, where a sultry teacher develops an intimate interest in her female students.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Carnal Contract

    WHY THIS

    Shares visual novel style, replayability, adult content and an atmospheric mood with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Ranked #5 for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Exploring the Big Apple.

    What was supposed to be a simple summer break takes an unexpected twist when you find yourself trapped in a strange game where you need to fulfill challenges. Carnal challenges.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Helping the Hotties

    WHY THIS

    Shares branching narrative and a contemplative mood with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Ranked #6 for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Helping the Hotties is a unique adult visual novel harem game filled with gorgeous girls, humor, exciting secrets, and spicy romance set in a hot summer. It’s time to enjoy your summer in a whole new way.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Sisterly Lust

    WHY THIS

    Shares branching narrative and an atmospheric mood with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Ranked #7 for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exploring the Big Apple.

    After the sudden death of your father you come back to your hometown and move to a new home to live with Liza, Bella, Rachel and Susan. Will you discover their personalities and secrets and maybe even develop romantic relationships with several of the girls?

    2020IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Reclaiming the Lost

    WHY THIS

    Shares visual novel style, replayability, adult content and an atmospheric mood with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Ranked #8 for Exploring the Big Apple fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Reclaiming the Lost is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel where you follow a man who discovers his old flame gave up their child for adoption. Determined to make amends, he searches for his lost child. Along the way, he meets a mysterious girl, and together they uncover the truth.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual9.74 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Exploring the Big Apple at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Exploring the Big Apple.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Exploring the Big Apple.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Exploring the Big Apple.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Exploring the Big Apple on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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 Exploring the Big Apple.

    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 Action and Adventure with Exploring the Big Apple.

    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 Exploring the Big Apple.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Exploring the Big Apple.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Casual with Exploring the Big Apple.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Exploring the Big Apple.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Exploring the Big Apple.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Exploring the Big Apple

Does Exploring the Big Apple run on Steam Deck?
Exploring the Big Apple 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 Exploring the Big Apple cost?
Exploring the Big Apple is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Exploring the Big Apple?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exploring the Big Apple are Steps of Debauchery, Bright Lord, To Be A King - Volume 1.
Who developed Exploring the Big Apple?
Exploring the Big Apple was developed by SadPepper and published by FooxiedGames.

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 Exploring the Big Apple.

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