Games like HIRUGAO
If HIRUGAO is your kind of game, the closest matches are BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator, Dark Alley and [Redacted] The Safehouse — 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 HIRUGAO: A mystery psychological thriller visual novel set in 2000. Follow a serial murder case through the eyes of three characters: the woman, the man, and the detective. With live-action backgrounds and silhouetted characters, every choice branches the story, and one wrong move means game over.
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Steam players who put hours into HIRUGAO 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.
BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator
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Top pick for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIRUGAO.
Use your psychic powers to read minds and catch an elusive serial killer!
Dark Alley
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIRUGAO.
A British detective has vanished in Kyoto. Step into Detective Bennett's shoes and uncover a mystery that reaches far beyond the Yakuza.
[Redacted] The Safehouse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with HIRUGAO.
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Blake: The Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with HIRUGAO.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Post Mortem
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with HIRUGAO.
After returning to the quiet streets of Paris to pursue a life of painting, Gus Macpherson could not escape his true art…
Still Life
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Ranked #6 for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with HIRUGAO.
Still Life 2 also now available!
Telling Lies
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Ranked #7 for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIRUGAO.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Chinatown Detective Agency
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for HIRUGAO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with HIRUGAO.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
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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 HIRUGAO.
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 HIRUGAO.
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 Indie and Adventure with HIRUGAO.
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 with HIRUGAO.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HIRUGAO.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with HIRUGAO.
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. Shares Indie with HIRUGAO.
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.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with HIRUGAO.
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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Frequently asked about HIRUGAO
- What games are most similar to HIRUGAO?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HIRUGAO are BLACKMIND: Psychic Social Simulator, Dark Alley, [Redacted] The Safehouse.
- Who developed HIRUGAO?
- HIRUGAO was developed by TEAM RESERVOIR DOGAMES.
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 HIRUGAO.
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