Games like Bard Harder!

If the colorful and funny rhythm of Bard Harder! stuck with you, this helps. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.

BAD END THEATER
A short visual novel about four characters whose fates keep ending badly. Pick a protagonist, toggle their behaviors, and watch one story change all the others. Every path is a bad ending, at least at first. Finding out how the pieces fit is half puzzle, half heartbreak, and worth every ending.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Funny, Romantic
97% of 8,961 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
ERROR143
Your rival just beat you in a hacking competition, so naturally you break into his database and leave a smug little note. He hacks you back. ERROR143 is a short, snappy rivals-to-lovers visual novel about Micah (Yujin), a snarky hacker with a stupid smirk, told over eight days of banter, flirting and one very fast fall. Fully voice acted, with three endings and a lot of feelings.
Also in Visual novel · Funny, Romantic, Hand-drawn
92% of 5,496 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78Free
//TODO: today
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI. //TODO: today is a pastel colored slice-of-life story that let's you freely choose your pronouns and romantic preferences!
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Romantic, Hand-drawn
92% of 427 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Ballads at Midnight
When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire. She soon discovers that the vampire, Lucius, is not starving: he is gravely bored. She may just survive on borrowed time, one ballad each midnight.
Also in Visual novel · Funny, Romantic, Hand-drawn
94% of 488 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Arcadia Fallen
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Funny, Romantic
94% of 515 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Mission: It's Complicated
Mission: It’s Complicated is a narrative-based, visual novel where you match super-awesome superheroes to go on missions during the night and dates during the day. The more compatible the pair of superheroes are, the more likely that they will fall in love and save the world.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Funny, Romantic
92% of 241 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Animal Lover
Evil forces have turned these five hunky beefcake time-displaced boys into animals! You've got to help cure them and maybe even fall in love! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance! No furries, despite the title! A dating sim by Wilson Taylor, Maia Gross and Travis Tohill.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Funny, Romantic
88% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Purrgatory
A visual novel set in an afterlife where nothing really matters, so you might as well make friends. Explore 80+ hand-drawn locations, help seven charming souls work through what kept them stuck, crack far too many cat puns, and find one of several endings. Short, funny and quietly moving.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Funny, Romantic
98% of 5,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
Run the Wayfarer's Inn, a tavern in a fantasy land where the drinks are magical and the gossip is dangerous. Chat with adventurers, mix potions that change their fates, and turn rumors into quests. A cozy, hand-drawn visual novel about listening well.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Romantic, Hand-drawn
87% of 1,469 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$17.99
Let`s not stay friends
Friendship is a wonderful thing… unless you are friends with a girl who has no idea you have feelings for her! Inske, a student of magical arts, is troubled by the upcoming outdoors exam, and can't even imagine that someone might want to use the test as an opportunity to get close to her.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Romantic, Hand-drawn
80% of 296 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Bewitching Sinners
Summoned to a world of witches while your double naps on the floor, you play Palmier trying to get home, date four baggage-heavy boys, and avoid ruining a whole world. Dark comedy, real choices, quests and crafting included.
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Funny, Romantic
94% of 522 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$17.99
It gets so lonely here
A dark fairytale visual novel about a girl running through a night forest, and the three lonely strangers waiting at the end of each path. A yandere yuri story told in second person, where love and danger wear the same face and every ending arrives exactly on time.
Also in Visual novel · Romantic, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
94% of 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free

Cheaper than Bard Harder!

Emily is Away Too

Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.

$0.99

One Night Stand

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.

$0.74

Creature Romances: For the Ladies

An original mystery horror love story! This work contains many disturbing, grotesque images and images of non-human creatures.

$1.49

Beyond the Sunset 斜阳下的彼岸

Jessica, our protagonist, used to be a noteless writer. However, everything changed after she encountered a stranger…

$0.99

A Gay Love Story About Gay Love

A short story-based SRPG about two men who will eventually come to love each other.

$0.99

CATGIRL LOVER 2

An incredible continuation of a vibrant and interesting history of learning in the Golden Shower Order!

$0.69

The Dark Side

What if the world is completely different from what you are used to seeing it?

$0.99

Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children

From the creative minds that brought you Metal as Phuk and The Chronicles of Quiver Dick, Crankage Games brings you another hilarious…

$0.99

Border of her Heart

Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.

$0.99

Emily is Away <3

Type every message yourself and steer a teenage romance toward one of its many endings, in a short, funny and quietly painful story.

$0.99

In The Ember 余烬之中

Angelina was originally an ordinary adventurer.But since she met a weird man and robbed her of her job,everything has changed.

$0.99

The Game For Skippers

A short visual novel about a person that wants achievements.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Bard Harder!

Money for Girls: Amortized

Play a girl detective scraping together cash on a beautiful island, where every choice pushes you toward romance, ruin or one of many endings.

$15

Ledgerbound

Play an insurance adjuster who takes on tactical battles, office satire and office romance when the realm's heroes fall.

$29.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

Bewitching Sinners

Summoned to a world of witches while your double naps on the floor, you play Palmier trying to get home, date four baggage-heavy boys, and avoid…

$17.99

Athenian Rhapsody

Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare…

$8.24

Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel

Serve enchanted drinks to adventurers at your tavern and let their stories unfold, one conversation and one choice at a time.

$17.99

Goodbye Volcano High

Guide Fang through their last year of high school, making choices about love, family and music before an asteroid arrives.

$29.99

It gets so lonely here

Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.

Free

Midnight Witch

Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love?

Free

Ballads at Midnight

When a sarcastic bard is arrested and exiled to an abandoned castle, she expected to be at the mercy of a hungry, blood-thirsty vampire.

Free

Under Maintenance

An everyday dramedy otome game that asks the tough question: When a game about love goes down for maintenance, can the game of love begin?

Free

Trouble Comes Twice

Play as twins Hazel and Jace in this wholesome romcom visual novel.

$15

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