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Two and a Half Studios · 2022 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 95 % positive of 168 reviews, as of Oct 28

A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?

24 games that play like start;again and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: BAD END THEATER, Until Then and Amnesia™: Memories.

Player tags

  • Visual Novel
  • LGBTQ+
  • Mystery
  • Anime
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Multiple Endings
Map region: Visual Novels & Dating Sims
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Plays and looks like start;again

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

By gameplay

Plays like start;again

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

More matches

  1. Degraman: Act I. Vincent83 % positive of 196Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Anime
  2. Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma81 % positive of 4,701Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Anime
  3. STEINS;GATE 095 % positive of 8,021Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Anime
  4. Dark Nights90 % positive of 443Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Anime
  5. Sweet Home94 % positive of 10,467Shared: Visual Novel · LGBTQ+ · Anime
  6. 我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live85 % positive of 895Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Anime
  7. Absent in the Rain94 % positive of 923Shared: Visual Novel · Anime · Romance
  8. a new life.95 % positive of 2,222Shared: Visual Novel · LGBTQ+ · Romance
  9. Ten Trials of Babel: The Doppelganger Maze91 % positive of 4,334Shared: Mystery · Multiple Endings · Story Rich
  10. Love Love Mystery Club96 % positive of 620Shared: Visual Novel · Mystery · Multiple Endings
  11. Mediterranea Inferno96 % positive of 253Shared: Visual Novel · LGBTQ+ · Anime
  12. her tears were my light98 % positive of 789Shared: Visual Novel · LGBTQ+ · Anime

By look

Looks like start;again

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

More matches

  1. Once on a windswept night85 % positive of 205
  2. Bloody Painter Dating Sim88 % positive of 1,805
  3. Shiina Taki's Decameron98 % positive of 7,474
  4. A Random Maze 某个迷宫95 % positive of 542
  5. Kill or Love89 % positive of 2,186
  6. Flower in Us93 % positive of 421
  7. PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo94 % positive of 6,257
  8. 2236 A.D.92 % positive of 166
  9. Peculiar Tales of Mid-Lake Pavilion88 % positive of 159
  10. PRICE92 % positive of 5,179
  11. 异化之恶〇Abnormal Treatment96 % positive of 3,622
  12. My Therapy94 % positive of 333

At a glance

What games like start;again have in common

  • The tags they share most often with start;again: Visual Novel (23 of 24), Anime (17) and LGBTQ+ (11).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2026, 10 of them after start;again (2022).
  • 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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