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Games like Love ritual

If Love ritual is your kind of game, the closest matches are Seduce Me 2: The Demon War, These nights in Cairo and Theory of Fear — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, lighthearted and mysterious. 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 Love ritual: Visit a beautiful fantasy city as an occult scientist where a forbidden ritual was performed. Unravel the mystery with your detective skills as the plot thickens around you, and all while two handsome advocates vie for your attention and your heart.

2019IndieSimulationCasual11.99 USDWindowsby Xand arts
Love ritual — Steam game cover
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Characters have distinct personalities and humorOptional adult content is easily toggledRitual performing scenes feel freshAtmosphericLightheartedMysterious

Players who liked Love ritual also play

Steam players who put hours into Love ritual 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. Seduce Me 2: The Demon War

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love ritual.

    Top pick for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    Seduce Me 2: The Demon War is the sequel to the popular free-to-play otome game, Seduce Me the Otome. It follows the story of Mika Anderson as she is suddenly thrown into the Abyssal Plains right before she is about to be married to one of the five Incubi Brothers featured in the first game.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. These nights in Cairo

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love ritual.

    Second-strongest match for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Love ritual.

    Otome visual novel. Margaret Dawson is girl dreaming to become full-fledged archaeologist. Together with her father she departs to the excavations of mysterious tomb in Egypt, but there she faces some oddities.

    2017IndieCasual7.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Theory of Fear

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    "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...

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love ritual.

    Ranked #4 for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    During your first year of university, immense magical powers are forced onto you, thus revealing the supernatural world hidden within ours. But you must learn to control your powers with the help of a partner or risk destroying everything around you. Will your new fate be one of tragedy or serendipity?

    2016IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  5. Lost in Secular Love

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love ritual.

    Ranked #5 for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Animal Lover

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Love ritual.

    Ranked #6 for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    Evil forces have turned these five hunky beefcake time-displaced boys into animals! You've got to help cure them and maybe even fall in love! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance! No furries, despite the title! A dating sim by Wilson Taylor, Maia Gross and Travis Tohill.

    2017IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Akash: Path of the Five

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Love ritual.

    Ranked #7 for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    Akash: Path of the Five is a professionally-produced, fully voiced visual novel in the otome style.

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Absolute Alchemical Potion

    WHY THIS

    Shares a lighthearted mood with Love ritual.

    Ranked #8 for Love ritual fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Love ritual.

    Behold: the great scientist-alchemist Celsia. Help the protagonist recover her power and brew the potion that’ll change the world, or find true and eternal love.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    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 ~58% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Love ritual.

    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. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~48% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love ritual.

    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 ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    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 ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Love ritual.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Love ritual.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Love ritual on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Love ritual.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 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 and Casual with Love ritual.

    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. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Simulation with Love ritual.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Love ritual.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Love ritual.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Love ritual.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Love ritual

How much does Love ritual cost?
Love ritual is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Love ritual?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Love ritual are Seduce Me 2: The Demon War, These nights in Cairo, Theory of Fear.
Who developed Love ritual?
Love ritual was developed by Xand arts.

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 Love ritual.

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