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Studio Élan · 2019 · 95 % positive of 891

24 games that play like Heart of the Woods and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Fairy's Song, Tamayura Mirai and The Ethereal Dream.

Player tags

  • LGBTQ+
  • Visual Novel
  • Female Protagonist
  • Dark Fantasy
  • Anime
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Choices Matter
  • Romance

At a glance

What games like Heart of the Woods have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Heart of the Woods: Visual Novel (22 of 24), Female Protagonist (17) and Anime (14).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2025, 13 of them after Heart of the Woods (2019).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Tales of the Black Forest (97 % positive of 13,947).
  • The Fairy's Song, Let`s not stay friends and Wet steps both play and look like Heart of the Woods.

By gameplay

Plays like Heart of the Woods

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

More matches

  1. Sounds of Verity78 % positive of 217Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Anime
  2. Demonheart92 % positive of 726Shared: LGBTQ+ · Visual Novel · Female Protagonist
  3. Let`s not stay friends79 % positive of 303Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Anime
  4. Ethereal Enigma94 % positive of 483Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Choices Matter
  5. Connected Hearts - Visual novel89 % positive of 324Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Casual
  6. Wet steps92 % positive of 283Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Choices Matter
  7. Last Time I Saw You97 % positive of 224Shared: Anime · Romance · Story Rich
  8. The Chrono Jotter94 % positive of 1,939Shared: LGBTQ+ · Visual Novel · Female Protagonist
  9. Gazing from beyond64 % positive of 499Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Sexual Content
  10. Tales of the Black Forest97 % positive of 13,947Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Anime
  11. Starlight of Aeons88 % positive of 548Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Anime
  12. Whispering Willows82 % positive of 1,803Shared: Female Protagonist · Anime · Story Rich

By look

Looks like Heart of the Woods

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

More matches

  1. The Fairy's Song95 % positive of 169
  2. Kaori After Story98 % positive of 452
  3. Distant Memoraĵo97 % positive of 170
  4. The Expression Amrilato97 % positive of 691
  5. Everlasting Summer94 % positive of 75,514
  6. Flowers -Le volume sur automne-98 % positive of 710
  7. Lucid9: Inciting Incident90 % positive of 1,035
  8. Lingua Fleur: Lily97 % positive of 208
  9. Sword of Asumi72 % positive of 375
  10. Once on a windswept night87 % positive of 178
  11. Let`s not stay friends79 % positive of 303
  12. Sentimental Death Loop65 % positive of 164

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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