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Games like Transparent Black

If Transparent Black is your kind of game, the closest matches are Confess My Love, Desolate City: The Bloody Dawn Enhanced Edition and Deeproot Manor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dlc adds crucial backstory, atmospheric and bleak. 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.

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About Transparent Black: When the school is over, by sunset glow covered. Eight girls still hover, the ones without a lover. How come a girl suffers, in such a Ivory Tower? With feathers shorn and shaven, raucously quoth the raven.

2017IndieAdventureRPG0.99 USDWindowsby LR Studio
Transparent Black — Steam game cover
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Black and white pixel art enhances moodDark narrative feels eerily realisticDlc adds crucial backstoryAtmosphericBleakDark

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Steam players who put hours into Transparent Black 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.

  1. Confess My Love

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Transparent Black.

    Top pick for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    The story takes place after school, when Willie decides to confess his love to the girl of his dreams, Liza. Afraid of being refused, he hesitated for a while. Should he summon up his courage and confess his love to her?

    2017IndieAdventureRPGFreeSteam ↗
  2. Desolate City: The Bloody Dawn Enhanced Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Transparent Black.

    Second-strongest match for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    It seemed to be a normal day at Gray Bay. While law student Lisa was doing her part-time job in a pizzeria, an experimental project had made great progress in a research facility on the other side of the city, but later it was not proceeding as the researchers were expecting...

    2019ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Deeproot Manor

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Transparent Black.

    Third-strongest match for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    Your younger brother, Richard, has gone missing. There are rumors about an abandoned manor, deep inside the woods. Believing that to be your brother's last destination before his disappearance, you sneak out of your home and step forth into the forest...

    2020IndieAdventureRPG8.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Happy Bones

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Transparent Black.

    After receiving a message from her father who has been missing for the last 4 years, Laura heads out to a house located inside a cult compound to search for her parents, and the truth.

    2021IndieRPG3.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Wolf & Rabbit

    WHY THIS

    Shares achievement hunting, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Transparent Black.

    Ranked #5 for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    Our hero, an injured wolf boy, encountered a rabbit in red picking up flowers on his way escaping from a forest. The kind rabbit girl invited the wolf boy to her grandma's house for a treatment, yet... Standing in front of the house, the wolf boy felt... somehow, uneasy.

    2018IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass

    WHY THIS

    Shares a melancholic mood with Transparent Black.

    Ranked #6 for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Transparent Black.

    One day, Jimmy looked inside.

    2018IndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 夜弦之音 - Echoes of Nocturnal Chords

    WHY THIS

    Shares achievement hunting, multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Transparent Black.

    Ranked #7 for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    On a rainy night, Xiaoyin disappears searching for the legendary “Miracle Grass.” Yixuan follows clues into a trap-filled cave where bodies, monsters, lies, and warmth intertwine. Multiple endings guide you through fairy tale and reality, revealing a fate woven from hope and loss.

    2020IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Corpse Party

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Transparent Black.

    Ranked #8 for Transparent Black fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...

    2016IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Transparent Black at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transparent Black.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transparent Black.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transparent Black.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transparent Black.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Transparent Black.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Shotgun Legend

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Transparent Black on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Transparent Black.

    Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.

    2018ActionIndieRPG0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Transparent Black.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Transparent Black.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Supper

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Trick & Treat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.

    2016IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dark Deception

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.

    2018ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Yume Nikki

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Transparent Black.

    This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Transparent Black

How much does Transparent Black cost?
Transparent Black is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Transparent Black?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Transparent Black are Confess My Love, Desolate City: The Bloody Dawn Enhanced Edition, Deeproot Manor.
Who developed Transparent Black?
Transparent Black was developed by LR Studio.

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 Transparent Black.

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