Games like Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
If Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary is your kind of game, the closest matches are MATCH APP!, アパシー殺人クラブ and Burial of Shortcake — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its city exploration feels immersive, atmospheric and dark. 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 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary: A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
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MATCH APP!
WHY THIS
Top pick for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
MATCH APP! is a visual novel game based on a Japanese dating app. Players take on the role of the protagonist and experience a story of new encounters through the dating app.
アパシー殺人クラブ
WHY THIS
Shares choice driven narrative, visual novel style, psychological and an atmospheric mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Second-strongest match for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Burial of Shortcake
WHY THIS
Shares investigation, visual novel style, psychological and a melancholic mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Third-strongest match for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
"The Burial of Shortcake" is an unpredictable story. It is a new visual novel with characters which are created/designed by voice actor Nozomi Sasaki, whose "expressiveness" shines throughout her career as a performer.
Drowning Song of the Stagnant Sea
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
A dark fairy tale set in the deep sea. The fated encounter between a sea monster and a human forever changes their lives in this visual novel. Contains platonic yuri.
HARMONIC REFLECTIONS
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, branching narrative, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Ranked #5 for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
A boy who can no longer hear the piano, living in the shadow of his gifted younger brother; a karate girl who is more than a friend but not yet a lover; and a girl with future memories. As past and future entwine, where will this triangle lead in this fleeting, bittersweet summer love story?
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Ranked #6 for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
Hira Hira Hihiru
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, branching narrative and atmospheric with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Ranked #7 for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.
The Shell Part I: Inferno
WHY THIS
Shares branching narrative, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Ranked #8 for Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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 ~60% under Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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...
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 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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 Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
‘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 Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
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!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Laplacian, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World-
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Another title from Laplacian, the studio behind Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary. Shares Adventure and Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Kaito wakes to find himself in a strange room, with no memories, and a taciturn girl named Yonagi by his side. Upon learning of his role, he immerses himself into three wondrous dream worlds with her. When all three stories meet a bitter end, Kaito recovers his memories, and the true story unfolds.
The Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Another title from Laplacian, the studio behind Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary. Shares Adventure with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
2061, Japan. Mankind has lost the sky, and with it, its connections. All of it was taken away by birds... ...By countless artificial pigeons flying through the sky.
HARMONIC REFLECTIONS
WHY THIS
Shares visual novel style, branching narrative, narrative driven and an atmospheric mood with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
Another title from Laplacian, the studio behind Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary. Shares Adventure and Casual with Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.
A boy who can no longer hear the piano, living in the shadow of his gifted younger brother; a karate girl who is more than a friend but not yet a lover; and a girl with future memories. As past and future entwine, where will this triangle lead in this fleeting, bittersweet summer love story?
Frequently asked about Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
- Is Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary 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 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary cost?
- Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary are MATCH APP!, アパシー殺人クラブ, Burial of Shortcake.
- Who developed Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary?
- Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary was developed by Laplacian.
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