Games like Harlequinade
If Harlequinade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sharehouse, Drops of Death and Demonheart: The Ice Demon — 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 Harlequinade: Harlequinade is a horror otome romance visual novel about a never-ending carnival and a very death-prone college student. With the aid of 2 clowns, can you escape this timeloop?
Players who liked Harlequinade also play
Steam players who put hours into Harlequinade 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.
Sharehouse
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Top pick for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
An otome horror visual novel set in a mysterious sharehouse filled with strange rules. Forge bonds with your fellow housemates as you unravel the secrets hidden within the house, where breaking the rules may mean losing more than your life.
Drops of Death
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?
Demonheart: The Ice Demon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Harlequinade.
Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?
When The Night Comes
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Ranked #4 for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Harlequinade.
When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.
Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
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Ranked #5 for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
Design your own wizard to attend a magical school. Learn spells, explore dungeons, make friends, and find a date for the May Day Ball. But be careful, everyone has secrets - including you!
Royal Order
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Ranked #6 for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Harlequinade.
Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! A LGBT+ survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.
Royal Alchemist
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Ranked #7 for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Harlequinade.
Intrigue, betrayal, deaths! An Otome / BxB survival Raising Simulation in a high-fantasy royal court setting with RPG elements.
Magical Diary: Horse Hall
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Ranked #8 for Harlequinade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Harlequinade.
You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Harlequinade.
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
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Harlequinade.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Harlequinade.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Harlequinade.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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More from Crystal Game Works
Other recommendable Steam games by Crystal Game Works, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
That Which Binds Us
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Another title from Crystal Game Works, the studio behind Harlequinade. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
All she wanted was to get a bail bond for her troublesome boyfriend. That's when she met Idris, a very special kind of bondsman. With a flick of a knife, he asked Evalise one confusing question- what if we could make him forget you?
Asterism
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Another title from Crystal Game Works, the studio behind Harlequinade. Shares Indie and RPG with Harlequinade.
Kotachi can see monsters other people can't. During the day, he goes to high school- but at night, he fights off specters, monsters that lurk in shadows and can harm people.
Image of Perfection
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Another title from Crystal Game Works, the studio behind Harlequinade. Shares Indie and RPG with Harlequinade.
Fight ghosts from your past and actual ghosts.
Memories on the Shoreline
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Another title from Crystal Game Works, the studio behind Harlequinade. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
Melody wanted a break from her stressful med classes— so when spring break came around, she dragged her best friend with her to the beach. However, things don't go quite so smoothly when they meet a local fisherman and... a mermaid?!
Drops of Death
WHY THIS
Another title from Crystal Game Works, the studio behind Harlequinade. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?
Canvas Menagerie
WHY THIS
Another title from Crystal Game Works, the studio behind Harlequinade. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
A slice-of-life boys love romance about a group of TV actors going through their mid-20s together.
Asphodelium
WHY THIS
Another title from Crystal Game Works, the studio behind Harlequinade. Shares Indie and Simulation with Harlequinade.
You killed him once before. Don't make the same mistake twice. A melancholic boys love visual novel about killing cults and your past confronting you.
Frequently asked about Harlequinade
- What games are most similar to Harlequinade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Harlequinade are Sharehouse, Drops of Death, Demonheart: The Ice Demon.
- Who developed Harlequinade?
- Harlequinade was developed by Crystal Game Works.
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