IMHO.

Games like Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love

If Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love is your kind of game, the closest matches are 量化情绪, Ego's Spark and Event-D — 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 Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love: A luxe, high-heat sci-fi romance visual novel where your AI protector and his android counterpart take you to a beach house to ride out a biological nesting cycle—together, and on purpose.

IndieWindowsby Cassie Alexander
Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love — Steam game cover

Players who liked Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love also play

Steam players who put hours into Guarded by the AI: Painted with 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. 量化情绪

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    《量化情绪》是一款近未来科幻二次元风格的文字冒险游戏。2036年,可以将人类情绪精确量化为指数的“量化情绪”系统已经被建立。转校生洛舟某日获得了查看、调节他人情绪的能力。借助这项能力,洛舟很快在学校站稳脚跟、并期望以此能与分别已久、流言缠身的青梅竹马柔歌重新交好。但当幸福可以被调节出来时,你还愿意付出真实的代价吗? 游戏有极具特色的近未来世界观和情绪系统设定,单女主线,玩家需要通过名为“铃铛视界”的小游戏,获取其他角色的情绪查看权限和调节权限,并做出选择,导向四种不同结局(沉默线、殉道者线、行尸线和希望线)。

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  2. Ego's Spark

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Is this a nascent ego—or just a nasty bug? Crash headfirst into cuddles, comfort, and maybe even love in this short visual novel about robots and the human heart.

    2024Adventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Event-D

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Sci-fi Visual Novel (Linear Story). A group of astronauts, scientists and robots is sent to space on a mission to investigate the disturbing disappearance of the first manned spaceship in its journey to Mars.

    2018Adventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. 天のゆくるる

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    僕たちは──すべての計画に、失敗する。 🎋落ちこぼれ天文部達の青春群像劇を描くドラマチックノベル! 🎬文庫三冊分に及ぶ青春ドラマ 🍎ゼロ年代懐古的雰囲気 🍏暴走オマージュ破滅!

    2023IndieAdventure17.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. AI Dreams of Roses of Desert

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    On her way home from work, Ruri picked up Aizen, a male prostitute android who was abandoned in a corner of the city. Ruri stayed up all night repairing Aizen, but because the owner of Aizen neglected regular inspections, she was able to keep her body for five days.

    2023IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. KORA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.

    2026IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  7. Last Days

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    The gods have blessed New Canaan for four hundred years, and everyone - including Sister Ginsetsu - thought it would go on forever, until the day Ginsetsu met the gods of New Canaan. Since then, the story between the maiden who calls herself a god, and the maiden who will become a god has begun.

    2021IndieRPGCasual1.59 USDSteam ↗
  8. Locus Equation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    You are an anthropod, a synthetically crafted life form. Your objective is to save the ones who are stuck on an uninhabited planet. Persuade, charm, manipulate: use your ultimate power—freedom of choice—in sci-fi role playing hyper variative game LOCUS EQUATION.

    2027IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗

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 Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with 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.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with 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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love

What games are most similar to Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love are 量化情绪, Ego's Spark, Event-D.
Who developed Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love?
Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love was developed by Cassie Alexander and published by Cassie Alexander Studios.

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 Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.