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ebi-hime · 2025 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 96 % positive of 277 reviews, as of Oct 28

A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.

24 games that play like Her Love, Like Poison and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: It gets so lonely here, Rituals in the Dark and The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns.

Player tags

  • Casual
  • Visual Novel
  • Anime
  • Stylized
  • Text-Based
  • Atmospheric
  • Dark
  • LGBTQ+
Map region: Visual Novels & Dating Sims
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Plays and looks like Her Love, Like Poison

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

By gameplay

Plays like Her Love, Like Poison

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

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  1. Sucker for Love: Date to Die For95 % positive of 1,204Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · LGBTQ+
  2. The Chrono Jotter94 % positive of 1,974Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · LGBTQ+
  3. missed messages.95 % positive of 15,574Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · LGBTQ+
  4. Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate94 % positive of 3,359Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Text-Based
  5. Homicipher96 % positive of 7,902Shared: Visual Novel · Text-Based · Dark
  6. Homicipher: Demo97 % positive of 1,626Shared: Text-Based · Dark · Horror
  7. Love at First Sight96 % positive of 1,427Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Horror
  8. Banebush93 % positive of 2,181Shared: Visual Novel · Horror · Psychological Horror
  9. Without a Voice94 % positive of 355Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · LGBTQ+
  10. Kill or Love89 % positive of 2,186Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Dark
  11. REFLEXIA Prototype ver.96 % positive of 7,611Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Stylized
  12. Cage of Roses89 % positive of 191Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Stylized

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Looks like Her Love, Like Poison

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  1. PRICE92 % positive of 5,179
  2. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue99 % positive of 5,950
  3. Paper Lily - Chapter 199 % positive of 9,025
  4. 2236 A.D.92 % positive of 166
  5. Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End97 % positive of 3,213
  6. Depersonalization91 % positive of 6,074
  7. ghostpia Season One92 % positive of 889
  8. start;again95 % positive of 168
  9. Lake of Voices95 % positive of 646
  10. Once on a windswept night85 % positive of 205
  11. 7 Days to End with You86 % positive of 3,399
  12. Seraphim Slum96 % positive of 182

At a glance

What games like Her Love, Like Poison have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Her Love, Like Poison: Visual Novel (23 of 24), Anime (20) and LGBTQ+ (8).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2025, none of them after Her Love, Like Poison (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Sucker for Love: First Date (98 % positive of 2,714).

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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