Games like Viola: The Heroine's Melody
If Viola: The Heroine's Melody is your kind of game, the closest matches are 8-Colors Star Guardians +, Enigma Heart and Super Neptunia RPG — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, emotional and relaxing. 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 Viola: The Heroine's Melody: Viola: The Heroine's Melody is the musical Platformer/RPG! After failing at violin practice for the hundredth time, Viola becomes trapped inside her instrument's fantastical world. Join her adventure to find her way back home, aided by the diverse ensemble of friends she meets along the way.
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8-Colors Star Guardians +
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Top pick for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Alien monsters have invaded Earth! It's up to the Star Guardians, a dysfunctional group of heroines, to protect the planet and awkwardly save the day (yet again)! Fight evil with pixelated style, in this turn-based, choose-your-boss-path game made with just 8 colors!
Enigma Heart
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Unravel the mysteries of your past, protect the ones you love, and shape your destiny in Enigma Heart, a modern new take on a classic action RPG formula. Blend exploration, magic, and combat with a variety of new abilities as you stand against the dark forces threatening your homeland.
Super Neptunia RPG
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Neptune, stricken with amnesia, awakes in a mysterious world where 2D reigns supreme. With a little help from her friends, Neptune embark on a journey to regain her memory, save the world, and 3D games as we know it.
PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY
WHY THIS
Shares rhythm based combat and a whimsical mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Ranked #4 for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
PATAPON is an action adventure where players use the rhythm of 4 Mystical Drums to command cute and mysterious eyeball-like creatures known as Patapons. As the player, you are the God of the Patapons and lead them on a grand adventure to Earthend!
Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Ranked #5 for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
In a silent world where music is outlawed, play as a singer to shatter the strings of fate and sing the melody of freedom in this unforgiving Turn Based Rhythm JRPG.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Touhou Blooming Soul
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Ranked #7 for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Follow Hata no Kokoro as she explores and defeats enemies on the stage of Gensokyo. The game contains many randomized elements such as items, skills and maps. Players can utilize a variety of different playstyles, making each run uniquely different from the last.
Wolfstride
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Viola: The Heroine's Melody fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Get wrecked in this immature grown-up RPG about a trio of troublemakers stumbling their way through a giant mecha tournament. Repair and upgrade the team’s hand-me-down rig, pick up odd jobs to pay the bills, and battle the best-of-the-best all while running from the regrettable choices of the past.
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Undertale
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Reviewers of Viola: The Heroine's Melody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
MOTHER
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Viola: The Heroine's Melody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
MOTHER is a first-person psychological horror game about protecting your children while descending deeper & deeper into madness. Defend them at all costs. Be careful, because their death is permanent!
Ikenfell
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Reviewers of Viola: The Heroine's Melody cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
A turn-based tactical RPG about a group of troublesome magic students. Use timing mechanics to power your spells and block attacks, explore the twisted halls of a vast magic school, fight challenging monsters and bosses, and uncover dark secrets never meant to be found.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Viola: The Heroine's Melody at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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 Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Action with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Action with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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 Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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 Viola: The Heroine's Melody on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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.
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 with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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 and Adventure with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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 Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
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.
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8-Colors Star Guardians +
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Alien monsters have invaded Earth! It's up to the Star Guardians, a dysfunctional group of heroines, to protect the planet and awkwardly save the day (yet again)! Fight evil with pixelated style, in this turn-based, choose-your-boss-path game made with just 8 colors!
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Touhou Blooming Soul
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Follow Hata no Kokoro as she explores and defeats enemies on the stage of Gensokyo. The game contains many randomized elements such as items, skills and maps. Players can utilize a variety of different playstyles, making each run uniquely different from the last.
Wolfstride
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Viola: The Heroine's Melody.
Get wrecked in this immature grown-up RPG about a trio of troublemakers stumbling their way through a giant mecha tournament. Repair and upgrade the team’s hand-me-down rig, pick up odd jobs to pay the bills, and battle the best-of-the-best all while running from the regrettable choices of the past.
Frequently asked about Viola: The Heroine's Melody
- How much does Viola: The Heroine's Melody cost?
- Viola: The Heroine's Melody is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Viola: The Heroine's Melody?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Viola: The Heroine's Melody are 8-Colors Star Guardians +, Enigma Heart, Super Neptunia RPG.
- Who developed Viola: The Heroine's Melody?
- Viola: The Heroine's Melody was developed by Jelle van Doorne.
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