Games like Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!
If Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Arcade Spirits, Magical Princess and Whimel Academy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, comedic and cozy. 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 Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!: After surviving a near death encounter on their first day of work, Hunter has noticed something shocking. They're slowly turning into a mermaid! The latest adventure game/life simulation hybrid from the creators of the Max's Big Bust series.
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Arcade Spirits
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Top pick for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
Magical Princess
WHY THIS
Shares replayability, multiple endings, slice of life and an emotional mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Second-strongest match for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!
Whimel Academy
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, character customization, adventure and a cozy mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Third-strongest match for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!
Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, replayability, slice of life and an emotional mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Ranked #4 for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)
Wylde Flowers
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building and an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Ranked #5 for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Ranked #6 for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
Winds of Change
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Ranked #7 for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
Arcadia Fallen
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Ranked #8 for Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
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Max's Big Bust 2 - Max's Bigger Bust
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles and an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Reviewers of Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Max is back! After being transformed once again, Max begins to uncover a massive conspiracy involving a cult of mysterious witches, a bootleg DVD smuggling ring and a horde of half human half octopus monstergirls from another dimension.
My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!?
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Reviewers of Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! cross-mention this title as a similar play.
After being inadvertantly transformed into a robotic battle maiden by their criminally insane roommate, Sam is dragged along on a ridiculous adventure in a dimension full of ravenous monster girls. Will Sam find a way out of this mess and return to their original body? Probably not, but who knows!
Max's Big Bust - A Captain Nekorai Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Reviewers of Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Max's Big Bust is a Life Sim/Visual Novel that follows the story of two cops, Max and Brad, as they investigate a shady new drug that's been circulating the mean streets of Axon City.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
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?
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
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...
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
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.
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 Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
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.
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 Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
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.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Lached Up Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Max's Big Bust - A Captain Nekorai Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Another title from Lached Up Games, the studio behind Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Max's Big Bust is a Life Sim/Visual Novel that follows the story of two cops, Max and Brad, as they investigate a shady new drug that's been circulating the mean streets of Axon City.
Alluna and Brie Re-Tentacled
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, dialogue choices and a comedic mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Another title from Lached Up Games, the studio behind Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
The definitive edition of the cult classic Aussie RPG! Alluna and Brie Re-Tentacled is a massive overhaul of the original game, featuring new bosses, way faster load times and heaps of quality of life improvements. It's the same great game but now with more tentacles!
Max's Big Bust 2 - Max's Bigger Bust
WHY THIS
Shares inventory based puzzles and an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Another title from Lached Up Games, the studio behind Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Max is back! After being transformed once again, Max begins to uncover a massive conspiracy involving a cult of mysterious witches, a bootleg DVD smuggling ring and a horde of half human half octopus monstergirls from another dimension.
My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!?
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Another title from Lached Up Games, the studio behind Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
After being inadvertantly transformed into a robotic battle maiden by their criminally insane roommate, Sam is dragged along on a ridiculous adventure in a dimension full of ravenous monster girls. Will Sam find a way out of this mess and return to their original body? Probably not, but who knows!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building, replayability, slice of life and an emotional mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)
Wylde Flowers
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building and an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box.
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
Arcadia Fallen
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
Frequently asked about Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!
- Is Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! cost?
- Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! are Arcade Spirits, Magical Princess, Whimel Academy.
- Who developed Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid!?
- Help! I'm Turning Into A Mermaid! was developed by Lached Up Games.
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