Games like Cover Story
If Cover Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loss Limit, Open Interest and Pullout Hearts — 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 Cover Story: In a 150-year-old newsroom captured overnight by its billionaire new owner, executive editor Everett Locke must steer an explosive investigation that could ruin the boss. Choose one of three intimate routes—reporter, editor-in-chief, or heir—as desire collides with the truth.
Players who liked Cover Story also play
Steam players who put hours into Cover Story 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.
Loss Limit
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Loss Limit is an Adult Romance Visual Novel set inside a sports-betting startup three weeks after a VIP player's suicide. Play Knox Mercer and choose one of three relationships—forbidden affair, grieving ex-wife, or hostile regulator—while an IPO and investigation close in.
Open Interest
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Open Interest is an adult romance visual novel set inside a prediction-market scandal. As Bellwether's Chief Markets Officer, choose between a brilliant quant, a grieving sister, or a ruthless whale as a subpoenaed mortality contract forces you to settle the unthinkable.
Pullout Hearts
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Pullout Hearts is an adult romance visual novel set during a U.S. Army base closure in Stuttgart, Germany. As Colonel Maddox Cain, navigate a ninety-day drawdown while three women challenge your plans, your story, and everything you thought you could leave behind.
No Reserve
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Star auctioneer Julian Ashby has three weeks to deliver Calthorpe's season-defining Aslanov Collection sale. As forgery, looted artefacts, and sanctioned money threaten his career, three women each hold a truth he can't un-know—and a romance he can't avoid choosing.
No Confidence Hearts
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
An Adult Romance Visual Novel set inside 10 Downing Street during a twelve-week countdown to a vote of no confidence. Play as the PM's Director of Political Strategy navigating three romances where power, secrecy, and loyalty collide.
Sweat Equity
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
A Milan luxury fashion house hides a death inside its supply chain. As prosecutors, unions, and a make-or-break runway close in, CEO Sandro is drawn into three forbidden romances, each woman holding a piece of the truth. An adult romance visual novel of desire, complicity, and cost.
MakeLandfallinMe
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
In a midlands town that remembers every promise, one project manager finds three very different women—and three very different ways to stay. In this adult romance visual novel, your choices steer Malachy toward one of three women who each hold a different part of the town’s autumn.
Full Diplomatic Relations
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cover Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Reopen a looted legation in eleven weeks—and discover that the hardest thing to negotiate is what the past still costs. Choose from three distinct romance routes, each escalating under different pressures, stakes, and consequences.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cover Story at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cover Story.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cover Story.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cover Story.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
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 ~79% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cover Story.
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
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Priced ~86% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cover Story.
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.
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cover Story.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Cover Story on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cover Story.
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.
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.
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 Cover Story.
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.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cover Story.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cover Story.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cover Story.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Coming soon from Creamhouse
Announced and quality-gated upcoming releases from Creamhouse — ranked by community wishlist demand from our scraped pool.
Pullout Hearts
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Pullout Hearts is an adult romance visual novel set during a U.S. Army base closure in Stuttgart, Germany. As Colonel Maddox Cain, navigate a ninety-day drawdown while three women challenge your plans, your story, and everything you thought you could leave behind.
No Confidence Hearts
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
An Adult Romance Visual Novel set inside 10 Downing Street during a twelve-week countdown to a vote of no confidence. Play as the PM's Director of Political Strategy navigating three romances where power, secrecy, and loyalty collide.
Arctic Surrender
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Arctic Surrender is an adult romance visual novel set on a thawing East Greenland coast, where a consortium races to build a deepwater port. As project director Soren Vinter, one impossible choice locks you into a romance with one of three women tied to the project's fate.
Driverless Desire
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
An adult romance visual novel set inside a robotaxi company whose "safer than you" promise just killed someone. As Chief Safety Officer Cormac Quade, romance three women—engineer, commissioner, or blamed operator—each holding a piece of the truth you helped bury.
Take Me in Totality
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
An adult romance visual novel set in a Galician village stranded after a total eclipse. Make choices across three distinct routes, navigate community conflict, and pursue relationships with Bruna, Sabela, or Candela as Loureira decides its future.
War Risk
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Command a stranded oil tanker through a blockaded Strait of Hormuz in this adult romance visual novel. Protect your crew, resist corporate pressure, and choose one of three routes with your chief officer, a war-risk surveyor, or a survivor rescued from the sea.
Mile High Walkout
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Lead 4,200 cabin crew through a volatile airline strike as union president Rowan Petrak. Navigate public pressure, hard negotiations, and three distinct romance routes where loyalty, credibility, and personal choices shape multiple endings.
Blow the Levee
WHY THIS
Announced upcoming release from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
In the Ossaw River basin, everyone has always known what the floodway is for: eighty-four thousand acres—Cordell included—were marked on a 1937 map as the ground that gets sacrificed so a city downstream never has to drown.
More from Creamhouse
Other recommendable Steam games by Creamhouse, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Days With Mia
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Simulation with Cover Story.
Explore 'My Days With Mia,' a visual novel of romance and choice in a vibrant college setting. Connect deeply with Mia through an interactive story, full voice acting, and rich artwork. Experience the thrill and intimacy of college love.
Hearts on the List
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
You're Roman, the General Manager of Peridot—a Miami Beach ultra-lounge where access is everything. As a corporate acquisition looms, three women enter your orbit: a head bottle host, a touring DJ, and a VIP's girlfriend. Choose one route and navigate desire before the season ends.
Hearts in Open Water
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Hearts in Open Water is an adult romance visual novel set aboard a 55-meter superyacht during a high-pressure Mediterranean charter season. As Captain Reeve, choose one of three romance routes and discover what a season-ending decision really costs.
Hearts Under Guard
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Hearts Under Guard is an adult romance visual novel. Play as Hayes, a close-protection lead at an East Hampton oceanfront estate. A kidnap threat tightens security and three women pull you past every professional line you've sworn to hold. Three routes, each with explicit adult scenes.
JPMAC: Privileged
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
JPMAC: Privileged is an adult romance visual novel set inside a New York private bank racing a Senate subpoena deadline. Three women enter your world as institutional necessities—a successor, an outside counsel, and an heiress—each becoming far more dangerous than a distraction.
Hanta Hearts
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
A biotech thriller-romance visual novel. As CEO Holt, race a twelve-week EUA countdown while three formidable women enter your orbit. One decisive weekend splits the story into three routes—each with its own institutional stakes, adult scenes, and endgame.
Aligned Hearts
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
An adult romance visual novel set in a San Francisco AI lab during a twelve-week sprint to launch a frontier model. Play as Pierce, Helion AI's co-founder, caught between three powerful women as deadlines, depositions, and go/no-go votes close in.
Crude Hearts
WHY THIS
Another title from Creamhouse, the studio behind Cover Story. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Cover Story.
Crude Hearts is an adult romance visual novel set inside a Geneva commodity trading house. Play as Sutton Locke, Co-Head of crude oil trading, navigating an OFAC deadline while three women challenge everything you thought was off the record.
Frequently asked about Cover Story
- How much does Cover Story cost?
- Cover Story is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cover Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cover Story are Loss Limit, Open Interest, Pullout Hearts.
- Who developed Cover Story?
- Cover Story was developed by Creamhouse.
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 Cover Story.
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