Games like Affictionate
If Affictionate is your kind of game, the closest matches are MindMindMind, To Find A Home and Deathwish Bloom — 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 Affictionate: After a year of bad dates and failed job applications, you've nearly given up on the love story you've always written about. One night, you write your perfect man into a notebook... the next day, he becomes a reality. A romance visual novel about identity and the line between fiction and reality.
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Steam players who put hours into Affictionate 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.
MindMindMind
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Top pick for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Affictionate.
A dark, psychological romance VN about a British ghost who has haunted you since childhood. When you get close to a new boy at college, he starts to get possessive, and the mind games begin!
To Find A Home
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Second-strongest match for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Affictionate.
You're a witch who has just been evicted. Your only option for tonight? A haunted house full of fellow supernaturals. Find love and friendship in this supernatural amare VN with found family feels, 3 love interests and multiple endings.
Deathwish Bloom
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Third-strongest match for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Affictionate.
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel, play as Sky, a love-struck impostor scientist. Survive your own secrets in a quake-ridden post-apocalyptic world. Shape bonds with characters whose obsessions can both aid and destroy your desperate bid to recreate a cure that only you know existed.
Our Wonderland
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Ranked #4 for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Affictionate.
A horror-fantasy visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
Bungou Catharsis 文豪カタルシス
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Ranked #5 for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Affictionate.
Fall in love, and rewrite literary history. Romance legendary Japanese authors—including Osamu Dazai, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kenji Miyazawa, and Natsume Soseki—in a literary mystery visual novel. Your choices shape not only your romance, but also the fate of literary history itself.
Arcadia Fallen
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Ranked #6 for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Affictionate.
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
Merry Crisis
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Ranked #7 for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Affictionate.
Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you're headed?
Arcadia Fallen II
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Ranked #8 for Affictionate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Affictionate.
In this sequel to the award-winning roleplay visual novel, Arcadia Fallen, you play as a senior student at the Seven Winds Academy. Choose from three different magical disciplines, and let your choices shape the personality of your character as you navigate school life during a time of great change.
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 and Casual with Affictionate.
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. Shares Adventure with Affictionate.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Affictionate.
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 Casual with Affictionate.
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 and Adventure with Affictionate.
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 and Adventure with Affictionate.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Affictionate.
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 Affictionate
- What games are most similar to Affictionate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Affictionate are MindMindMind, To Find A Home, Deathwish Bloom.
- Who developed Affictionate?
- Affictionate was developed by KindredSpiritVA and published by Just a single guy publishing this game.
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 Affictionate.
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