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Games like 1997

Hit'n'Run Digital Studio, RUZURA Interactive · 2023 · 91 % positive of 223

24 games that play like 1997 and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Кукуево / Kukuevo, DOM RUSALOK and √Letter - Root Letter -.

Player tags

  • Visual Novel
  • Idler
  • Anime
  • 1990's
  • Adventure
  • Detective
  • Investigation
  • Interactive Fiction

At a glance

What games like 1997 have in common

  • The tags they share most often with 1997: Visual Novel (23 of 24), Detective (16) and Anime (15).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2025, 3 of them after 1997 (2023).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Tales of the Black Forest (97 % positive of 13,947).
  • Отделение 38, Escape to Moscow and Lucid9: Inciting Incident both play and look like 1997.

By gameplay

Plays like 1997

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Kathy Rain: Director's Cut94 % positive of 921Shared: Visual Novel · 1990's · Detective
  2. The Chrono Jotter94 % positive of 1,939Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Detective
  3. Kujlevka92 % positive of 570Shared: Visual Novel · 1990's · First-Person
  4. 迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa77 % positive of 1,038Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Detective
  5. Отделение 3894 % positive of 196Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Detective
  6. The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass86 % positive of 258Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Detective
  7. Escape to Moscow86 % positive of 443Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · First-Person
  8. Tokyo Dark84 % positive of 1,307Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Detective
  9. Tales of the Black Forest97 % positive of 13,947Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Adventure
  10. Sanfu82 % positive of 16,649Shared: Visual Novel · Detective · Investigation
  11. Lucid9: Inciting Incident90 % positive of 1,035Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Detective
  12. Raging Loop96 % positive of 7,772Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Detective

By look

Looks like 1997

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Let`s not stay friends79 % positive of 303
  2. Guilty Parade94 % positive of 268
  3. Without Romance78 % positive of 180
  4. Summer Nightmare55 % positive of 536
  5. Distant Memoraĵo97 % positive of 170
  6. Blooming Nightshade83 % positive of 218
  7. Tailor Tales94 % positive of 975
  8. Summer Memory of Bell94 % positive of 204
  9. Yumeutsutsu Re:Master89 % positive of 343
  10. Flowers -Le volume sur ete-99 % positive of 1,217
  11. First Snow94 % positive of 649
  12. Lucid9: Inciting Incident90 % positive of 1,035

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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