Games like Held
If Held is your kind of game, the closest matches are LIVORA, I'm Making a Monster and Gingerbread Wonderland — 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.
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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.
LIVORA
WHY THIS
Top pick for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual 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.
I'm Making a Monster
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
Piece by piece, you pour your soul into the monster. This is your burden and you bear it willingly. Your friends think that this is unhealthy.
Gingerbread Wonderland
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
Decorate your own gingerbread cookies, and organize your scene. And share it with your friends. How about making my own scene this Christmas ?
Xiaye's Doors of Magic: Lightchaser
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie 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.
Pine: A Story of Loss
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
Love in Summer
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
毕业自驾游？不，是「心动修罗场」！ 《盛夏离与合》是现象级互动影像系列《完蛋！我被美女包围了！》IP的全新篇章。本次我们将填补“完蛋宇宙”时间线上的关键一块，带你回到那个承前启后、充满无限可能的毕业季，体验一段关于成长、抉择与命运交织的动人故事。 这段承前启后的夏日篇章，都会因你每一次的抉择，导向独一无二的盛夏结局。
Room of Depression
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Held.
"Same encounter, different world." Moon is a young woman who lives an ordinary city life as an office worker. However, because she suffers from depression, she reacts and deals with things in a way that is very different from regular city folk.
Seven Lovers In The House
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Held fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Held.
这是一款让你尽享「齐(七)人之福」的男性向恋爱互动影游。在这里你将与七位美女同住、同乐、同风雨，在这里爱与梦想绕梁不绝。
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.
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 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 Casual 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 LIVORA, I'm Making a Monster, Gingerbread Wonderland.
- 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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