Games like Now Hiring
Below are 12 hand-picked alternatives to Now Hiring for fans of indie, rpg, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Now Hiring also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Now Hiring: Now Hiring is a top-down narrative adventure where you play a job seeker trapped in a scam syndicate. Across 21 days, your choices in dialogue battles and moral dilemmas will shape your fate, reveal human struggles, and lead to multiple endings.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Love Is All Around
Top pick for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Now Hiring.
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.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Second-strongest match for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Now Hiring.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
Third-strongest match for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Now Hiring.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
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Pecaminosa
Ranked #4 for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Now Hiring.
Activate your detective skills in this noir-influenced police action RPG. Grab your gun and prepare to face the strangest case of John Souza's career by helping the ghost of a dead mobster get "justice". Hit the streets in search of intel, befriend the scum and beat those who will try to stop you.
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Charming Hearts
Ranked #5 for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Now Hiring.
"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty. Every choice will lead to a completely different chemical reaction with "her"; every entanglement, the sweet love is entangled and pulled.
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Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Ranked #6 for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Now Hiring.
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
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IMMORTALITY
Ranked #7 for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Now Hiring.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
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Loretta
Ranked #8 for Now Hiring fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Now Hiring.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Now Hiring.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
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Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Now Hiring.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
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IMMORTALITY
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Now Hiring.
Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies. But none of the movies were ever released. And Marissa Marcel disappeared. An interactive trilogy from Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story.
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Loretta
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Now Hiring.
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Frequently asked about Now Hiring
- What games are most similar to Now Hiring?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Now Hiring are Love Is All Around, Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure, Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery.
- Who developed Now Hiring?
- Now Hiring was developed by MoonMoon.
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