Games like A Story Beside
If A Story Beside is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Fair Cat: Snow, Heartstop and Infected Love : The Fatal Experiment — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bittersweet tone resonates deeply, contemplative and emotional. 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 A Story Beside: Step into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming friendships, and bittersweet choices — proving along the way that you don't have to slay dragons to be the hero of your own story.
Players who liked A Story Beside also play
Steam players who put hours into A Story Beside 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.
My Fair Cat: Snow
WHY THIS
Top pick for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
Dive into a feel-good adventure of love, laughter, and cat companionship. For anyone who has ever smiled at the thought of making a cat's day!
Heartstop
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building and a melancholic mood with A Story Beside.
Second-strongest match for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
Heartstop is an emotional, story-driven game, taking place in a world where every living being has suddenly stopped moving. Uncover the mystery of this eerie event while building a dynamic relationship between the only two people remaining, through the many impactful and hard-hitting choices.
Infected Love : The Fatal Experiment
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
Infected Love: The Fatal Experiment is not just a survival game — it’s a fusion of horror, romance, and unforgettable choices. Are you ready to confess your love… when the world is falling apart?
A YEAR OF SPRINGS
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with A Story Beside.
Ranked #4 for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Coffee Talk
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
and Roger
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?
A Bird Story
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with A Story Beside.
Ranked #7 for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.
World's Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares relationship building and an emotional mood with A Story Beside.
Ranked #8 for A Story Beside fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
Bring life back to a sleepy seaside village by building friendships, finding love, harvesting crops, tending livestock, competing in festivals, fishing, mining, discovering magical secrets and more!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below A Story Beside at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie with A Story Beside.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under A Story Beside on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 A Story Beside.
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 A Story Beside.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Story Beside.
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 A Story Beside.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 A Story Beside.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with A Story Beside.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
A YEAR OF SPRINGS
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with A Story Beside.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with A Story Beside.
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Coffee Talk
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
and Roger
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with A Story Beside.
It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?
Frequently asked about A Story Beside
- Does A Story Beside run on Steam Deck?
- A Story Beside 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 A Story Beside cost?
- A Story Beside is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to A Story Beside?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside A Story Beside are My Fair Cat: Snow, Heartstop, Infected Love : The Fatal Experiment .
- Who developed A Story Beside?
- A Story Beside was developed by Wayward Prophet.
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