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Sometimes You · 2015 · 34 % positive of 691

24 games that play like Retention and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Until Then, Once' and Know by heart.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Casual
  • Adventure
  • Short
  • Singleplayer
  • Visual Novel
  • Simulation
  • Point & Click

At a glance

What games like Retention have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Retention: Visual Novel (16 of 24), Indie (10) and Point & Click (8).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2025, 20 of them after Retention (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Until Then (97 % positive of 9,868).

By gameplay

Plays like Retention

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

More matches

  1. Unroaded94 % positive of 300Shared: Visual Novel · Indie · Casual
  2. Old Man's Journey86 % positive of 3,970Shared: Short · Point & Click · Puzzle
  3. Continue?987654321056 % positive of 171Shared: Indie · Adventure
  4. be you82 % positive of 206Shared: Visual Novel · Simulation · Indie
  5. The Almost Gone80 % positive of 1,135Shared: Point & Click · Puzzle · Exploration
  6. Hazy Mind87 % positive of 248Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Indie
  7. Forgotten, Not Lost - A Kinetic Novel88 % positive of 237Shared: Visual Novel · Simulation · Indie
  8. Once Again91 % positive of 927Shared: Visual Novel · Puzzle · Interactive Fiction
  9. Photographs84 % positive of 160Shared: Simulation · Puzzle · Indie
  10. Leila90 % positive of 286Shared: Visual Novel · Point & Click · Puzzle
  11. Flashback87 % positive of 409Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · Cinematic
  12. Memories Off 2nd94 % positive of 164Shared: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure · Drama

By look

Looks like Retention

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

More matches

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  2. CALENDULA76 % positive of 359
  3. The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother82 % positive of 250
  4. A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut76 % positive of 343
  5. Dear Devere96 % positive of 290
  6. Pixel Puzzles Illustrations & Anime Jigsaw Puzzles75 % positive of 246
  7. How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale90 % positive of 221
  8. MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One83 % positive of 635
  9. Zelle94 % positive of 454
  10. Daily Chthonicle: Editor's Edition74 % positive of 165
  11. Awkward Dimensions Redux80 % positive of 2,941
  12. Silence of the Sleep74 % positive of 684

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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