Games like Instinct
If Instinct is your kind of game, the closest matches are School Idol, ShyChess and Theory of Fear — 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 Instinct: It’s so nice to live with the person you like, to have everything necessary for a good life, to depend on yourself and have a good time. Up till recently my wonderful life of leisure in the pet store ran its natural course, when suddenly a weird bozo appeared in the house. Why did Mistress hire him?
Players who liked Instinct also play
Steam players who put hours into Instinct 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.
School Idol
WHY THIS
Top pick for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instinct.
School idol - is a story about cute and polite female student from Japan. Her name is Haneko. She is a student council member. Haneko is a secret admirer of the student council's head - Coco Nobunaga.
ShyChess
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instinct.
ShyChess is a puzzle game where the ShyGirls must cross through chessboards avoiding dangerous zones, marked by thechess pieces attack patterns. Go through room to room while discovering more about the ShyGirls history, escape with as many of them as you can.
Theory of Fear
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Instinct.
"Theory of Fear" is a visual novel combining “slice of life” and “dark fantasy” genres. In the daytime, the main heroine is an ordinary girl, a first-year university student, who does an evening job in a café. At night, in her dreams, she visits another world with extraordinary guys, who start pursuing her...
Girls Dance VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instinct.
Girls invite you to their world. Play custom mode, become choreographer, chose girl, change her outfit, and the surrounding for the beautiful dancer. Join them and admire their beautiful movements in a dance. Sit comfortably in your armchair, put on VR googles and relax.
Dirty Fighter 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instinct.
The fighting game with NO RULES! Finally a game for all the ladies who want to kick a guy in the balls!
Take the Dream IX
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Instinct.
What would you do for the person you love? Are you sure you're actually in love with them? They say love is all about sacrifice. What are you willing to lose for the one you supposedly love?
Gachimuchi Reloaded
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Instinct.
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Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Instinct fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Instinct.
From Nashville to New York, It's 800 miles of love. Amanda Etheridge is just an average, closeted lesbian working at an advertising agency in New York... At least until the huge project she was in charge of collapsed through no fault of her own.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Instinct at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Instinct.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Instinct.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Instinct.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Instinct.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Instinct.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Instinct.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Action with Instinct.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Instinct on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Instinct.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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 Instinct.
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 Action with Instinct.
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.
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 Casual with Instinct.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Instinct.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Instinct.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Instinct.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Instinct
- How much does Instinct cost?
- Instinct is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Instinct?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Instinct are School Idol, ShyChess, Theory of Fear.
- Who developed Instinct?
- Instinct was developed by VNeroGAMEs and published by TsunamiGames.
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 Instinct.
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