Games like linger
If linger is your kind of game, the closest matches are 花火与幽灵少女 - Hanabi and Ghost girl, 你已经猜到结局了吗 and Zili Diary escape against witch — 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 linger: Lin Xiao returns from school to find her home a cold funeral hall. Family missing. Strange Taoist priest. Obsessive classmate. Mysterious butterflies. She has seven days. Trapped in absurd horror, every choice leads to different endings. Your decisions decide her fate.
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花火与幽灵少女 - Hanabi and Ghost girl
WHY THIS
Top pick for linger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with linger.
蝉鸣声中偏远的山中小镇，表面悠然而宁静，背后却隐藏着某个笼罩了这里数百年的黑暗秘密。女主角结城花火几年前跟随父母一同来到空铃镇，在父母的事故后因为内向的性格被排挤的她如今一个人生活在小镇上，直到在旧校舍邂逅本已死去的“幽灵”。
你已经猜到结局了吗
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for linger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with linger.
有些人死了，但没完全死，知道了结局但却未发现真相。 一个人也能玩的海龟汤推理故事。 海龟汤故事通常包含一个极不合理的结果，但不知道其中的过程，您可以自行猜测发生了什么，并提出问题，主持人只会用【是】【否】【无关】来回答你——本该如此，不过她似乎会破例给你些提示，但显然你很高冷，并不为之所动。
Zili Diary escape against witch
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for linger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with linger.
Zili Diary is a psychological horror visual novel. Explore a cursed mall, make life-or-death choices, and fight to survive. Every action costs a piece of your soul.
Buy a Croquette!
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Ranked #4 for linger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with linger.
March 2012, Nagano. The brave and clever high school girl, Chio Aozora, is facing a major crisis: she doesn’t have enough money to buy a croquette! Navigate through the streets and alleys of Nagano, interact with a variety of characters, solve complex puzzles, collect 380 yen, and buy a croquette!
羽翼的祈愿 - Feather Of Praying
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for linger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with linger.
This is a horror puzzle RPG first released in 2016. Players control Qiu Xiaoqi as she explores a mysterious room filled with puzzles alongside a white-haired youth. They unravel mechanisms to uncover the truth behind her loss of consciousness. Will the wish be fulfilled? The story is yours to shape!
Last Word
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Ranked #7 for linger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with linger.
In a society where having the last word means having power over others, a small party is disrupted by a gentleman who politely issues orders via one-way intercom.
Scarlet Hollow
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Ranked #8 for linger fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with linger.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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 linger.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with linger.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with linger.
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 linger.
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 Casual with linger.
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 linger.
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 linger
- What games are most similar to linger?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside linger are 花火与幽灵少女 - Hanabi and Ghost girl, 你已经猜到结局了吗, Zili Diary escape against witch.
- Who developed linger?
- linger was developed by 白鹤.
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 linger.
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