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minori · 2019 · Windows

Steam: 94 % positive of 175 reviews, as of Oct 28

What starts with a conversation between two long lost friends spills out into a captivating visual novel about four youths struggling to pursue their dreams and find their place in the world as love complicates everything.

24 games that play like ef - the first tale. (All Ages) and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: LoveChoice, Our Life: Beginnings & Always and Ethereal Enigma.

Player tags

  • Visual Novel
  • Emotional
  • Romance
  • Story Rich
  • Atmospheric
  • Cinematic
  • Anime
  • 2D
Map region: Visual Novels & Dating Sims
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Plays and looks like ef - the first tale. (All Ages)

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

By gameplay

Plays like ef - the first tale. (All Ages)

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

More matches

  1. 枝江往事96 % positive of 4,882Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Story Rich
  2. BAD END THEATER97 % positive of 8,950Shared: Visual Novel · Romance · Story Rich
  3. AIR96 % positive of 690Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Romance
  4. Furry Angel Take In97 % positive of 698Shared: Visual Novel · Romance · Anime
  5. ONE.80 % positive of 382Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Romance
  6. Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday80 % positive of 1,861Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Romance
  7. Angel Wings87 % positive of 641Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Romance
  8. Crystalline94 % positive of 1,353Shared: Visual Novel · Romance · Story Rich
  9. her tears were my light98 % positive of 789Shared: Visual Novel · Romance · Story Rich
  10. Emily is Away Too93 % positive of 5,360Shared: Visual Novel · Romance · Story Rich
  11. A YEAR OF SPRINGS97 % positive of 934Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Romance
  12. Distant Memoraĵo97 % positive of 175Shared: Visual Novel · Emotional · Romance

By look

Looks like ef - the first tale. (All Ages)

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

More matches

  1. Memories Off6 T-wave94 % positive of 150
  2. The Fruit of Grisaia91 % positive of 1,035
  3. WHITE ALBUM: Memories like Falling Snow92 % positive of 853
  4. Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi97 % positive of 1,303
  5. True Love ～Confide to the Maple～83 % positive of 1,335
  6. Memories Off90 % positive of 233
  7. Little Busters! English Edition96 % positive of 1,126
  8. Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- HD93 % positive of 378
  9. Memories Off 2nd90 % positive of 222
  10. Senren＊Banka98 % positive of 34,011
  11. Katawa Shoujo97 % positive of 6,367
  12. Nurse Love Syndrome92 % positive of 266

At a glance

What games like ef - the first tale. (All Ages) have in common

  • The tags they share most often with ef - the first tale. (All Ages): Visual Novel (24 of 24), Romance (23) and Emotional (14).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2025, 20 of them after ef - the first tale. (All Ages) (2019).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Our Life: Beginnings & Always (98 % positive of 13,854).

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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