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Synstoria · 2022 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 94 % positive of 486 reviews, as of Oct 28

When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight.

24 games that play like Ballads at Midnight and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Cabernet, Vampires' Melody and Sigh of the Abyss.

Player tags

  • Free to Play
  • Otome
  • Vampire
  • Female Protagonist
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Romance
  • Cozy
  • Visual Novel
Map region: Visual Novels & Dating Sims
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Plays and looks like Ballads at Midnight

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Ballads at Midnight

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

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  1. Vampire Therapist94 % positive of 934Shared: Vampire · Visual Novel · Story Rich
  2. The Fairy's Song95 % positive of 165Shared: Female Protagonist · Romance · Visual Novel
  3. Cage of Roses89 % positive of 191Shared: Vampire · Female Protagonist · Romance
  4. Arcadia Fallen93 % positive of 511Shared: Otome · Female Protagonist · Romance
  5. Blood Code72 % positive of 1,728Shared: Otome · Vampire · Female Protagonist
  6. Midnight Witch91 % positive of 371Shared: Interactive Fiction · Romance · Visual Novel
  7. Romance Club - Stories I Play79 % positive of 1,064Shared: Female Protagonist · Romance · Visual Novel
  8. Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel87 % positive of 1,463Shared: Interactive Fiction · Cozy · Visual Novel
  9. Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two98 % positive of 215Shared: Interactive Fiction · Romance · Choose Your Own Adventure
  10. 灾厄黑龙与谎言公主90 % positive of 3,750Shared: Otome · Female Protagonist · Interactive Fiction
  11. Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate94 % positive of 3,359Shared: Otome · Female Protagonist · Interactive Fiction
  12. EPHEMERAL -FANTASY ON DARK-87 % positive of 178Shared: Otome · Female Protagonist · Romance

By look

Looks like Ballads at Midnight

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

More matches

  1. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It98 % positive of 13,613
  2. Changeling94 % positive of 139
  3. SoulSet89 % positive of 146
  4. Along the Edge88 % positive of 333
  5. Seventh Lair93 % positive of 389
  6. Juniper's Knot94 % positive of 332
  7. Mythic Love: Iberian Legends92 % positive of 255
  8. Demonheart88 % positive of 715
  9. Murders on the Yangtze River95 % positive of 15,945
  10. Vampire Therapist94 % positive of 934
  11. Depersonalization91 % positive of 6,074
  12. Once on a windswept night85 % positive of 205

At a glance

What games like Ballads at Midnight have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Ballads at Midnight: Interactive Fiction (16 of 24), Female Protagonist (14) and Romance (14).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 15 of them after Ballads at Midnight (2022).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Vampires' Melody (97 % positive of 5,571).

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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