Games like Donutal
If Donutal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quarantine Circular, Solar Echoes: The Star Legation and Alexandria IV — 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 Donutal: An alien conversation adventure where conversation is your only weapon. Awakened from a 150 year cryosleep, you are suddenly appointed as a Chief Extraterrestrial Counselor at the spaceport. Interview the aliens visiting Earth and uncover their true intentions.
Players who liked Donutal also play
Steam players who put hours into Donutal 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.
Quarantine Circular
WHY THIS
Top pick for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Donutal.
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
Solar Echoes: The Star Legation
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Donutal.
Solar Echoes: The Star Legation is a choice-driven cinematic Sci-Fi Visual Novel game with RPG elements. Journey through space to gather and manage an alien crew, visit new worlds, negotiate with alien leaders, and even risk romance across the stars!
Alexandria IV
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Donutal.
Tasked with commanding of one of the most challenging sectors of the galaxy, the future of the Alexandria IV space station depends on your diplomatic and strategic capabilities. How far will you go to prevent a war? A space opera visual novel by J.M. Beraldo.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Donutal.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Star Trek: Resurgence
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Donutal.
Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?
Interstellaria
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Donutal.
Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Donutal.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Donutal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Donutal.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
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 Casual with Donutal.
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 Donutal.
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 Simulation with Donutal.
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 Adventure with Donutal.
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 Simulation and Casual with Donutal.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Donutal.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Donutal.
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.
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More from Arc System Works
Other recommendable Steam games by Arc System Works, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
The cutting-edge 2D/3D hybrid graphics pioneered in the Guilty Gear series have been raised to the next level in “GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-“. The new artistic direction and improved character animations will go beyond anything you’ve seen before in a fighting game!
BlazBlue Centralfiction
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
Combining a 2D fighting game with a visual novel, the BlazBlue series continues on with massive fan support! The latest installation, BlazBlue: Centralfiction, serves as the ending to the Azure Saga, revealing the hidden truth of the world!
GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
Granblue Fantasy: Versus
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
A new game in the Granblue Fantasy universe, available on Steam! This fantasy game blends fighting game action and RPG-style adventure. Throw yourself into matches or enjoy powering up your characters!
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
Rise to the challenge in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising! This powered up, revamped sequel to GBVS is more enjoyable and accessible than ever before. With simplified input options, even newcomers can engage in thrilling and strategic matches!
GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
Ultimate battle action, and the epitome of the GUILTY GEAR XX series now on Steam! Bonus soundtracks included!
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Donutal.
A Persona 4 Smackdown!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Donutal.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Astronaut: The Best
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Donutal.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Donutal.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Frequently asked about Donutal
- What games are most similar to Donutal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Donutal are Quarantine Circular, Solar Echoes: The Star Legation, Alexandria IV.
- Who developed Donutal?
- Donutal was developed by Arc System Works.
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 Donutal.
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