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Games like Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love

If Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love is your kind of game, the closest matches are 我家恋天使太废柴鸟真~可怕, アイアイ喫茶店 and LOVEPICAL-POPPY! — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, cozy and funny. 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.

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About Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love: Welcome back to your childhood town! The Full HD Remaster of Karigurashi Ren’ai: Living on Borrowed Love perfectly preserves ASa Project's signature blend of comedy and heartwarming charm while offering a stunning new visual experience.

2026AdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby ASa Project
Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love — Steam game cover
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Asa projects signature slapstick and character roastingCharacter roasts are consistently entertainingHiyoris route delivers actual heartfelt romanceComedicCozyFunny

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Steam players who put hours into Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love 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.

  1. 我家恋天使太废柴鸟真~可怕

    WHY THIS

    Shares relationship building, branching narrative, slice of life and a cozy mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Top pick for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    HULOTTE’s classic visual novel is now on Steam! After an injury ends his track dream, Sakuma Tsumugi meets a clumsy Love Angel and begins a sweet search for his destined special someone.

    2026IndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. アイアイ喫茶店

    WHY THIS

    Shares visual novel style, branching narrative, slice of life and a cozy mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Second-strongest match for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    何気なく頼んだ「アイスコーヒー」の注文が、奥の部屋への「合言葉」になっちゃってる喫茶店。 1周5分の、ちょっとおかしくて怪しいマルチエンドADV。

    2025IndieAdventure3.83 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. LOVEPICAL-POPPY!

    WHY THIS

    Shares character interaction, relationship building, slice of life and a cozy mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Third-strongest match for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    From renowned Japanese visual novel brand SMEE, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!, the ultimate moege, arrives on Steam! Made for SMEE’s 15th anniversary and celebrating 150k+ sales, it keeps the brand’s signature sweetness while adding life-sim gameplay and a unique story progression system.

    2025AdventureCasual29.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. 私のリアルは充実しすぎている フルボイス版

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Ranked #4 for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    顔良し、頭良し、性格良し。 完全無欠のリア充女子が送るドタバタラブコメディ!(たぶん)

    2022IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. I Just Want to be Single!! Season One

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?

    2025IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Love, Elections, and Chocolate

    WHY THIS

    Shares relationship building, visual novel style, slice of life and a lighthearted mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Ranked #6 for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Love, Elections, and Chocolate is a romantic visual novel developed by the Japanese game studio Sprite. Upon its release in Japan, it garnered numerous awards for its exceptional art, captivating music, and well-crafted characters.

    2025AdventureCasual29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. I Wani Hug that Gator!

    WHY THIS

    Shares choice consequences with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Ranked #7 for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

    2024IndieCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Ranked #8 for Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Follow Yamato and his friends as they navigate the friendships, rivalries, and martial arts of Kawakami Academy.

    2021AdventureCasual24.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    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.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~73% under Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from ASa Project

Other recommendable Steam games by ASa Project, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Renai Karichaimashita: Koikari - Love For Hire

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Another title from ASa Project, the studio behind Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love. Shares Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Due to family circumstances, Yuki has only one belief: money will make his little sister happy. And thus, he works part-time jobs late into the night. His plan is to start working full-time after graduation, but his little sister tells him that if he won't go to university, then she won't either.

    2021Casual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sankaku Renai: Love Triangle Trouble

    WHY THIS

    Shares route selection and a comedic mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Another title from ASa Project, the studio behind Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love. Shares Adventure and Casual with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Meet Sousuke. He's just your average student, living in a rural town. Ever since his father remarried when he was young, he's been living together with his little sister Nanaru. Together with his childhood friend Maho and their other friends, they have fun geeking out in the Otaku Club.

    2019AdventureSimulationCasual29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Futamata Ren'ai: Two Times the Trouble

    WHY THIS

    Shares romance systems, character interaction, slice of life and a comedic mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Another title from ASa Project, the studio behind Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Koga Nao never knew his life would take a wild turn when a night out at a college drinking party would result in a messy relationship with Toiro Kirame. Now forced to date her, his life only gets more complicated when his longtime crush, Nobuta Yua, decides to confess to him!

    2025IndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Renai X Royale - Love's a Battle

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Another title from ASa Project, the studio behind Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    I, transfer student Hanamaru Mari, love you, Komachi Hiro-kun! Please go out with me! Our protag, Komachi Hirotaka. Every day, he goes through the motions-- dodging his cunning underclassman's advances, accidentally hitting on the student council president, and chasing idols.

    2022Adventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Ren'ai 0 Kilometer

    WHY THIS

    Shares character interaction, relationship building, slice of life and a comedic mood with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    Another title from ASa Project, the studio behind Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love. Shares Adventure with Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love.

    "Love 0 Kilometers" is a novel game with choices. The ending will change depending on the choices you make. Through a limited-time family swap, the protagonist spends time with his childhood friend, deepening his relationship with a cute girl and enjoying special conversations.

    2026Adventure34.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love

Does Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love run on Steam Deck?
Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love 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 Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love cost?
Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love are 我家恋天使太废柴鸟真~可怕, アイアイ喫茶店, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!.
Who developed Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love?
Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love was developed by ASa Project and published by Kagami Games.

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