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Nina Freeman, Laura Knetzger · 2015 · 62 % positive of 214

24 games that play like Freshman Year and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: First Snow, Roommates and Without Within.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Short
  • Visual Novel
  • Female Protagonist
  • Singleplayer
  • Free to Play

At a glance

What games like Freshman Year have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Freshman Year: Visual Novel (23 of 24), Female Protagonist (16) and Indie (16).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2025, 17 of them after Freshman Year (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Our Life: Beginnings & Always (98 % positive of 12,452).
  • Florence, Cibele and The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne both play and look like Freshman Year.

By gameplay

Plays like Freshman Year

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

More matches

  1. Fujiwara Bittersweet87 % positive of 399Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Indie
  2. Departed Away90 % positive of 361Shared: Visual Novel · Indie
  3. MetaWare High School (Demo)96 % positive of 679Shared: Visual Novel
  4. Our Life: Beginnings & Always98 % positive of 12,452Shared: Visual Novel · Indie · Singleplayer
  5. Psycholonials89 % positive of 961Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Indie
  6. Without Within 288 % positive of 252Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Indie
  7. Marie's Room93 % positive of 6,463Shared: Short · Female Protagonist · Indie
  8. Highschool Possession68 % positive of 178Shared: Visual Novel · Indie · Singleplayer
  9. be you82 % positive of 206Shared: Visual Novel · Indie · Singleplayer
  10. Emily is Away88 % positive of 31,896Shared: Short · Visual Novel · Indie
  11. Emily is Away <391 % positive of 6,114Shared: Visual Novel · Indie · Singleplayer
  12. Lingua Fleur: Lily97 % positive of 208Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Indie

By look

Looks like Freshman Year

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

More matches

  1. Room of Depression74 % positive of 523
  2. Just, Bearly93 % positive of 519
  3. Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End98 % positive of 2,605
  4. The Endless Empty95 % positive of 254
  5. Cibele50 % positive of 1,272
  6. Enjoy the Diner97 % positive of 722
  7. Melatonin95 % positive of 7,106
  8. the static speaks my name81 % positive of 5,633
  9. Life Tastes Like Cardboard95 % positive of 294
  10. Knuckle Sandwich85 % positive of 644
  11. Leila90 % positive of 286
  12. tomorrow won't come for those without ██████94 % positive of 919

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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