Games like Held
If Held is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pet Diary, LIVORA and Love in Translation — 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 Held: A short, hand-drawn, wordless interactive story about fatherhood. Hold your newborn, care for them as they grow, and watch as they gradually stop needing your hands.
Players who liked Held also play
Steam players who put hours into Held 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.
Pet Diary
WHY THIS
Top pick for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
It is just a part of your life, but you are its entirety. This game is dedicated to everyone who has spent or will spend a warm moment with a little life. The game adopts a visual novel mode and combines light puzzle, telling the story of a young couple and their dog over ten years life.
LIVORA
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Held.
LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where money, work, relationships, health, family, weather, world events and pressure all connect. Build a life, face the consequences, recover from mistakes, chase ambition, fall in love, start again, and see how different every life can become.
Love in Translation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Held.
Love in Translation is Japanese learning chat-sim otome. Your bestie has enough of you complaining about not finding more otome fans. So she drags you into her friend's server, where everyone is an otome fan, including some Japanese guys! Learn each other's language and enjoy your own sweet romance!
LifeReplay
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Ranked #4 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
Close your eyes, and your whole life flashes by. 1000+ memories from birth to death. Every choice rewrites your path across four distinct lives. Laughter, tears, regret, warmth — looking back, every ordinary day was worth cherishing.
Tomo Cafe
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Ranked #5 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
Tomo Cafe is a cozy "study-with-me" game where your real life focus time moves the story forward. Work through your actual to-do list beside the regulars at your study cafe, decorate the place, and unlock the next chapter of heartwarming stories.
A Week to Remember
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Ranked #6 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Held.
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
Lin Ling
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Ranked #7 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Held.
This is a visual novel. Centered on hand-drawn comic artwork, textual narration and character dialogue as core gameplay, the game emphasizes character development and worldbuilding. It immerses players in the fates of ordinary individuals caught amid this grand, century-spanning conflict.
Xiaye's Doors of Magic: Lightchaser
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Ranked #8 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Held.
This is one (or more) story of reality, a story of youth, dreams, chains, and rebellion. Step into different lives of 7 ordinary teens through the "Doors", and to rewrite their fate tightly locked with your choices.
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 Indie and Casual with Held.
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 Held.
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. Shares Indie with Held.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
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 Indie and Adventure with Held.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Held.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
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.
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Frequently asked about Held
- What games are most similar to Held?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Held are Pet Diary, LIVORA, Love in Translation.
- Who developed Held?
- Held was developed by Sense of Games Inc..
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 Held.
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