Games like Happy Project 12
If Happy Project 12 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ludus: A Gladiator Story, Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People and Jin Ping Mei: Qinghe Reverie — 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 Happy Project 12: Become the father of Hinata, a 4th-grader, and face three years of junior high entrance exams. Each week, choose study or play, raise her deviation score, aim for her dream school. But what's really being tested is your relationship, not her grades. Which of the 11 endings awaits you?
Players who liked Happy Project 12 also play
Steam players who put hours into Happy Project 12 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.
Ludus: A Gladiator Story
WHY THIS
Top pick for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Happy Project 12.
A fully voiced branching narrative RPG of the Roman arena with a unique engraving and VO for every choice and outcome. Four origins, over 1,800 choices, and 19 endings. You will bleed on the sand. The only question is whether you bleed for them, or for yourself. Every choice leaves a scar.
Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Happy Project 12.
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
Jin Ping Mei: Qinghe Reverie
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Happy Project 12.
In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.
Medieval Fantasy Survival Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Happy Project 12.
You're gonna get yourself killed out here... There's monsters, bandits, and much, much worse roaming these lands... Do you really think you've got what it takes to survive? Or do you think you're cut out for much more than that... There's only one way to find out, and time is of the essence!
30 Days Another
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Happy Project 12.
「30 Days」 will change someone's life, maybe your life.
Checkpoint '38
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Ranked #6 for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Happy Project 12.
A roguelike narrative simulation of life as a border guard in Nazi Germany. Inspect passports, detect forged documents, and approve or deny entry as restrictions tighten. Every traveler brings a choice that could save a life or condemn it. Your job is to obey. Your conscience says otherwise.
牛马兄弟职场记
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Happy Project 12.
Cow & Horse Bros.: Office Diaries is an anthropomorphic workplace sim. Featuring cel-shaded anime art, it recreates real office routines & teamwork with funny stories. Casual story-focused gameplay, simple controls for relaxing spare-time fun.
Space to Grow
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Happy Project 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Happy Project 12.
A visual novel where you play as a farmer, father, and community member. Decide what to plant, which faction to support, and what kind of dad you want to be. How will you react when your daughter won't stop crying? When she bullies her friend? Or when she wants to hang out with the cool kids?
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 with Happy Project 12.
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 Happy Project 12.
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 Happy Project 12.
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 and Simulation with Happy Project 12.
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 and Adventure with Happy Project 12.
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 Happy Project 12.
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 and Adventure with Happy Project 12.
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 Happy Project 12
- What games are most similar to Happy Project 12?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Happy Project 12 are Ludus: A Gladiator Story, Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People, Jin Ping Mei: Qinghe Reverie.
- Who developed Happy Project 12?
- Happy Project 12 was developed by waikei.
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 Happy Project 12.
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