Games like Kill Your Darlings
If Kill Your Darlings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pact Between Us, Walk with the Living and Tropical Hearts — 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 Kill Your Darlings: The kingdom has imprisoned you in the dungeon! Manage your day-to-day life, date your fellow inmates (who are monsters) and fight by their side to escape in this innovative time-management dating-sim RPG where every choice matters and every playthrough is different.
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Steam players who put hours into Kill Your Darlings 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.
Pact Between Us
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Top pick for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
"Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.
Walk with the Living
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Second-strongest match for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Kill Your Darlings.
Walk with the Living is a queer strategy melodrama focused on character-driven storytelling and player choice.
Tropical Hearts
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Kill Your Darlings.
Five friends go on a well deserved vacation. When they're offered a luxurious stay at Paradise Island, they have no idea what’s awaiting them! Drawn into a battle against mysterious creatures, our heroes unlock their magical potential - and the road to each other's hearts!
Tonight’s Special
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Ranked #4 for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
Explore Serenpt with 9 love interests in this multi-ending JRPG. You are one of the successors chosen by the influential Godmother, recently entrusted with running a bar and handling Cheleamon’s Family affairs. However, she has set a condition—within six weeks, you must prove that you are worthy.
NeveRossa Remaster
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Ranked #5 for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Kill Your Darlings.
That day, the sky was also snowing scarlet— Classic PC game from Firedog Studio in 2005 "NeveRossa~Mille e una notte" Remastered! Nurture a pretty girl Lilies, the "Goddess Seed", through trainings, adventures, and battles, into a true Goddess within a thousand nights!
The NOexistenceN of Morphean Paradox : The Forest of Silver Shallots
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Ranked #6 for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Kill Your Darlings.
You awaken in the Forest of Silver Shallots, setting out to uncover the secret of the Morphean Paradox. Above, factions weave their schemes; below, the black mist hides a swelling undercurrent. Time never stands still, and truth wears many faces. Not everyone can return to their fate…
Отделение 38
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Ranked #7 for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Kill Your Darlings.
После неожиданной смерти студент Александр попадает в "Отделение 38", где бюрократия переплетается с мистикой. Раскройте тайны этого потустороннего мира и найдите ответы, которые изменят всё.
BeYourCat
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Ranked #8 for Kill Your Darlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
"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?
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 with Kill Your Darlings.
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
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kill Your Darlings.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
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 with Kill Your Darlings.
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 Kill Your Darlings.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Kill Your Darlings.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Stray Fawn Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Stray Fawn Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Wandering Village
WHY THIS
Another title from Stray Fawn Studio, the studio behind Kill Your Darlings. Shares Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Niche - a genetics survival game
WHY THIS
Another title from Stray Fawn Studio, the studio behind Kill Your Darlings. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.
Dungeon Clawler
WHY THIS
Another title from Stray Fawn Studio, the studio behind Kill Your Darlings. Shares Simulation and RPG with Kill Your Darlings.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
WHY THIS
Another title from Stray Fawn Studio, the studio behind Kill Your Darlings. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.
Nimbatus - Drone Creator
WHY THIS
Another title from Stray Fawn Studio, the studio behind Kill Your Darlings. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
Use the Nimbatus Drone Creator to construct physically simulated drones and try them out in a virtual testing environment. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?
Infinity Bounce
WHY THIS
Another title from Stray Fawn Studio, the studio behind Kill Your Darlings. Shares Indie and Simulation with Kill Your Darlings.
Turn the galaxy into a chaotic pinball machine to feed a voracious space cat in this physics-based incremental game. Expand and upgrade your arsenal of various celestial bodies and stuff the cat to the brink of a big bang.
Frequently asked about Kill Your Darlings
- What games are most similar to Kill Your Darlings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kill Your Darlings are Pact Between Us, Walk with the Living, Tropical Hearts.
- Who developed Kill Your Darlings?
- Kill Your Darlings was developed by Stray Fawn Studio and published by Stray Fawn Publishing.
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