Games Like Valiant Hearts: Coming Home (2026)

Shared: tier:indie, Short Playthrough

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: tier:indie, Short Playthrough

A Chinese FMV dating sim that somehow pulled 93% positive Steam reviews from 35,000+ players. Worth knowing what you're signing up for before clicking add to cart.

Shared: Narrative-First

Rats, plague, the Inquisition, and two kids with nothing but a sling and each other. If grim medieval atmosphere and a story that actually lands are your thing, this one punches well above its budget.

Shared: Collectible Lore

Remedy's cult psychological thriller still hits hard: a flashlight-and-gun loop wrapped around one of the most atmospheric stories in third-person action.

Shared: tier:indie

Four friends, one camera, and a procedurally generated underground full of things that want to kill you on film. Content Warning is the co-op horror bit that somehow became the social satire nobody asked for but everyone needed.