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Games like Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears

Below are 23 hand-picked alternatives to Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears for fans of strategy, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from Blue Giraffe. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.

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About Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears: "Join a father on an epic journey to save his little girl's life!"

2017StrategyIndieAdventureCasual15.99 USDDeck PlayableWindows · macOSby Blue Giraffe
Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears — Steam game cover
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Achievements encourage replayabilityFamily focused narrative resonatesStory has surprising emotional depthChallengingCozyEmotional

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Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Sally's Salon: Kiss & Make-Up

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and a whimsical mood with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Reviewers of Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Sally and François dive headlong into chaos and absurdity in a brand new spa!

    2018StrategyAdventureCasual14.39 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Fabulous - Angela's Fashion Fever

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and a whimsical mood with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Reviewers of Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Discover bitter secrets in the glittering world of fashion! Follow Angela’s fabulous adventure across the world in 60+ exciting story levels. Become a world-famous fashion designer in the 2nd season of Fabulous!"

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Delicious - Emily's Message in a Bottle

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an emotional mood with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Reviewers of Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Enjoy an amazing story while you cook divine dishes in Italian kitchens!

    2016IndieAdventureCasual15.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Sprout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Clicker Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bloons TD Battles

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.

    2016ActionStrategyFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Blackwake

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Darwin Project

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    In Darwin Project, ten inmates must survive the elements, track each other, fight, craft tools, and use their social skills to be the last one standing. It's a unique take on battle royale with a Show Director to influence the match and Spectator Interactions to create a one-of-a-kind game show.

    2020ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Kingdom: Classic

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Transformice

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Transformice is an MMO platformer about dozens of mice running to bring back the cheese! Will the almighty Shaman help you or just ruin everything? Millions of levels, hectic physics, skill trees, and more importantly... hats!

    2015IndieMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Blue Giraffe

Other recommendable Steam games by Blue Giraffe, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an emotional mood with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Another title from Blue Giraffe, the studio behind Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring surgeon at Little Creek Hospital!

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation15.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Heart's Medicine - Hospital Heat

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and an emotional mood with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Another title from Blue Giraffe, the studio behind Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    The long awaited sequel to "Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal". An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring doctor at Little Creek Hospital!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Heart's Medicine - Doctor's Oath

    WHY THIS

    Shares star collection, time management and a challenging mood with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Another title from Blue Giraffe, the studio behind Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Become a doctor in a romantic medical drama with aspiring intern Allison Heart!

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation15.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Delicious - Emily's Christmas Carol

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management and a cozy mood with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Another title from Blue Giraffe, the studio behind Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears.

    Warm up your Christmas spirit with this amazing cooking story game!

    2016IndieAdventureCasual15.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears

Does Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears run on Steam Deck?
Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears cost?
Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Who developed Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears?
Delicious - Emily's Hopes and Fears was developed by Blue Giraffe and published by GameHouse.

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