Games like Black Lotus
If Black Lotus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bungou Catharsis 文豪カタルシス, even if TEMPEST and REDLINE — Strings of Fate — 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 Black Lotus: Transported into a dark fantasy novel, Lin Tangtang must navigate dangerous missions, tangled relationships, and fate-changing choices. Win the trust of the enigmatic Shen Run, uncover hidden secrets, and shape your own ending in this choice-driven visual novel.
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Steam players who put hours into Black Lotus 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.
Bungou Catharsis 文豪カタルシス
WHY THIS
Top pick for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
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.
even if TEMPEST
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
Raging flames sear her flesh as scolding laughter weighs her down as lead. She dies with naught but regret, and is granted the Fatal Rewind. "This time, I will transform into the ideal version of myself." Yet this resolve will only lead to further misfortune.
AdventureSteam ↗REDLINE — Strings of Fate
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
A sci-fi otome game where your choices shape love — and the future of society.
Dreaming Briar Rose -Demon's Temptation-
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Ranked #4 for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
Saved from a near-fatal accident by a demon, you must spend two weeks recovering in the Demon’s Realm. Surrounded by eight dangerous yet alluring demons, your choices will decide whether you return to the human world—or choose a future in theirs.
Tame or Conquered
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Ranked #5 for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
You got isekai'd, only to wake up as a cursed saintess. You have 6 months to choose a husband from 7 yandere red flags.. or become a big tree and die. A "simple" psychological horror & dark romance VN.
Madness in Bloom
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Ranked #6 for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
Running from a painful betrayal, you retreat to the quiet countryside, hoping to leave the past behind. Instead, you find unexpected relationships, buried secrets, and a future that depends entirely on the choices you make.
MindMindMind
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
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!
拉克夏家的女仆
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Black Lotus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Black Lotus.
「The Maid of Luxia」is an otome visual novel.Rebirth. Redemption. Rewriting tragedy. Facing the truth of the heart.Experience not only the twisted love of seven masters poured upon you at once, but also a journey of self-growth.
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 Black Lotus.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Black Lotus.
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.
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 Adventure with Black Lotus.
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 Adventure with Black Lotus.
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.
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 Black Lotus
- What games are most similar to Black Lotus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Lotus are Bungou Catharsis 文豪カタルシス, even if TEMPEST, REDLINE — Strings of Fate.
- Who developed Black Lotus?
- Black Lotus was developed by VNhub.
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 Black Lotus.
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