Games like Scars of Summer: After
If Scars of Summer: After is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mira and the Mysteries of Alchemy, Demon Slayer Shion and Into the Nightmare — 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 Scars of Summer: After: Live out your last two summers with your childhood friend and attempt to save her from the many fates that await her in the backwards village where she grew up.

Players who liked Scars of Summer: After also play
Steam players who put hours into Scars of Summer: After 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.
Mira and the Mysteries of Alchemy
WHY THIS
Top pick for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Scars of Summer: After.
After making a big mistake while trying to craft a potion at the alchemy university, the apprentice alchemist Mira finds that she has exposed herself to an elixir that made fundamental changes to her body. Now she must go in search of the ingredients in order to craft the antidote.
Demon Slayer Shion
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Scars of Summer: After.
Shion's fellow Demon Slayer has gone missing in an otherworldly cave, and it's up to her teammates to find and rescue her! Just what horrors await them?
Into the Nightmare
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Scars of Summer: After.
When the city of Mangetsu is under attack, it's up to Yatsuha and her new allies to drive back the nightmares and save the city!
Fleeting Iris
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
Ayame is a beautiful girl from Japan that is living a carefree life in search of happiness. One fateful day, she met Robert, a CIA agent who was in Japan during a mission. They become engaged and move to America together. However, not all is as simple as her previous life!
Tina: Swordswoman of the Scarlet Prison
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Scars of Summer: After.
Play as Tina and Cecile as they investigate Durham and try to uncover the cause of the village's sudden surge of crime. With the reappearance of an old foe, their job won't be easy.
Demons Roots
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
In a final struggle for survival, demonkind again invaded the human world. However, the world they return to after years in the darkness isn't the same as it once was...
Treasure Hunter Claire
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
Treasure Hunter Claire is the story of the titular protagonist, Claire, and her adventure through the fabled land of Alstroemeria. What treasures and riches await her as she navigates the world?
Fallen ~Makina and the City of Ruins~
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Scars of Summer: After fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
Fallen takes you on an adventure with Makina into the Ruins of Gardona. What fate awaits Makina and her friends on their travels as they descend further into the ruins? Find out in this JRPG classic!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scars of Summer: After at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scars of Summer: After.
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 ~67% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Scars of Summer: After.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scars of Summer: After.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scars of Summer: After.
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 ~67% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scars of Summer: After.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Scars of Summer: After on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Scars of Summer: After.
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 Scars of Summer: After.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scars of Summer: After.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scars of Summer: After.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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More from Shinachiku-castella
Other recommendable Steam games by Shinachiku-castella, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Scars of Summer
WHY THIS
Another title from Shinachiku-castella, the studio behind Scars of Summer: After. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scars of Summer: After.
A slice of life RPG. Due to family circumstances, Keita finds himself living with his childhood friend Ryoka for the summer. Explore a contemporary Japanese setting, and enjoy spending time with Ryoka.
Tina: Swordswoman of the Scarlet Prison
WHY THIS
Another title from Shinachiku-castella, the studio behind Scars of Summer: After. Shares Indie and RPG with Scars of Summer: After.
Play as Tina and Cecile as they investigate Durham and try to uncover the cause of the village's sudden surge of crime. With the reappearance of an old foe, their job won't be easy.
Kotoko's a Little Weird
WHY THIS
Another title from Shinachiku-castella, the studio behind Scars of Summer: After. Shares Indie and RPG with Scars of Summer: After.
After years of stress from trying to act perfect, Kotoko decides to throw out her old way of thinking, and be herself.
Frequently asked about Scars of Summer: After
- Does Scars of Summer: After run on Steam Deck?
- Scars of Summer: After 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 Scars of Summer: After cost?
- Scars of Summer: After is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Scars of Summer: After?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scars of Summer: After are Mira and the Mysteries of Alchemy, Demon Slayer Shion, Into the Nightmare.
- Who developed Scars of Summer: After?
- Scars of Summer: After was developed by Shinachiku-castella and published by Kagura Games.
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 Scars of Summer: After.
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