Games like Life is Vanilla
If Life is Vanilla is your kind of game, the closest matches are Love All My Girls, Gay It Loud and Where it all Began - Season 1 — 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 Life is Vanilla: A coming-of-age romantic comedy told by a narrator who survived it — barely. Eight women, one very unprepared guy, and the kind of experiences that could actually happen to anyone. Sharp humor. Real stories. Two game modes. 18+.
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Love All My Girls
WHY THIS
Top pick for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
What would you do with infinite resurrection and time travel? Predict the future, save the world, get rich overnight… or date six girls at once? You’ve lived every man’s dream but stepped into a fatal trap. You’re just trying to make them all happy—what’s wrong with that?
Gay It Loud
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Life is Vanilla.
Dating in the dreamy shopping mall of 1995! Hang out at the food court, have sloppy makeouts in the dressing room, loiter in the arcade, and collect nostalgic toys.
Where it all Began - Season 1
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
Where It All Began invites you into a rich, immersive world as an interactive visual novel with dating elements that marks the beginning of an expansive universe. It’s a journey of reconnection, healing, and triumph over past traumas, all while navigating the rise of a criminal empire.
The seven days i spent with you
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Ranked #4 for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
With the enigmatic girl who imprisoned you――seven days in an unfamiliar room.
Paper Kite: Threads of Longing
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Ranked #5 for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Life is Vanilla.
After the grueling college entrance exams in June, Shen Luoying and Chen Yanqing—newly confessed lovers—are forced to attend universities in separate cities (Beijing and Jiangcheng) due to parental expectations and academic score......
Mr Right Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Casual with Life is Vanilla.
A youth to his student era,, 、awakening a Temporal Love System. With wingman Tong Jincheng, he navigates campus innocence and corporate battles using future intel. Bonds with 7 girls across timelines—witness you from bike to AMG. Can spacetime's equation balance love and ambition?
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
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Ranked #7 for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Half Billion: Love Choice
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Ranked #8 for Life is Vanilla fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
"Half Billion" is a surreal simulation business interactive game, where you will complete the entrepreneurial journey with a start-up capital of half billion. Six beauty enter your life. How will you balance the relationship? Note that "wealth" and "likability" will jointly determine the your story.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Life is Vanilla at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life is Vanilla.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Life is Vanilla.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Life is Vanilla.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Life is Vanilla.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Life is Vanilla.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Life is Vanilla on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Life is Vanilla.
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 and Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Life is Vanilla.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Simulation with Life is Vanilla.
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 Life is Vanilla.
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.
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Frequently asked about Life is Vanilla
- How much does Life is Vanilla cost?
- Life is Vanilla is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Life is Vanilla?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Life is Vanilla are Love All My Girls, Gay It Loud, Where it all Began - Season 1.
- Who developed Life is Vanilla?
- Life is Vanilla was developed by Life Is Vanilla Productions.
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