Games like Ballads and Romances
Looking for games like Ballads and Romances? Here are top action recommendations with a drama and mystery focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Tsunagari Chess School, Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder or Everlasting Summer.
1 71%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding71% User Score 103 reviewsA psychological horror game taking place in a Japanese chess school. Get to know the girls, go on dates, and prepare for the worst.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, atmosphere83% User Score 207 reviewsFollow Detective Butler and his sidekick Gilligan as they solve a locked-room murder during a haunted cruise ship's maiden voyage. Can you solve the mystery before Detective Butler reveals the answer?
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, monetization90% User Score 5,052 reviewsSemyon, a poster child contemporary chan culture consumer, falls asleep in the bus, only to wake up in front of the gates of Sovyonok, a pioneer camp of the late Soviet Russia. Everlasting Summer is a time-warping, mind-bending visual novel with some eroge content, produced by the collective efforts of Russian chan communities.
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, stability95% User Score 663 reviewsCritic Score 76%36 reviewsBuy Season: A letter to the future on PlayStation Store. Leave home on a bicycle trip into a mysterious new world and record life before it ends.
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76%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsmusic, gameplay89% User Score 38 reviewsCritic Score 55%1 reviewsExplore the magical world of summer camp in this story-rich game about a young Witch trespassing in the Human Realm. Make friends, cast spells, and uncover secrets during your first ever summer away from home. Welcome to Camp W!
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42%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospheregameplay, graphics42% User Score 487 reviewsAway - is a short game telling about the hero's death experience, performed in a gloomy black and white style.
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding92% User Score 886 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsLucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
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95%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, optimization95% User Score 608 reviewsRoui, a resilient city dandy, a decipherer, a half-educated jeweler and the author of scientific magic articles, was met with a colossal failure AND must return to his gypsy homeland: Latori.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, grinding97% User Score 5,549 reviewsCritic Score 84%40 reviewsThe fate of the city is in your hands.
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64%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding64% User Score 294 reviewsCritic Score 65%2 reviewsA challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.
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