Games like Growing Up

Still thinking about Growing Up and its hand-drawn and colorful tone? These games make natural next picks for you.

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Spend ten years growing up on an alien planet in a story-rich RPG where your memories become cards and your choices shape your friends, your colony and your own ending. Fall in love, make mistakes, die, and live it all again with everything you remember.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
96% of 4,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$24.99
I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Also in Visual novel · Colorful, Cute, Emotional
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
A visual novel about growing up next to the beach with Cove, the lonely boy next door. Design your character down to their drink of choice, shape a fifteen-year friendship or romance, and let the story remember every choice. Warm, funny and low-pressure, with 397,000 words across four stages of life.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Colorful, Cute
98% of 13,892 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111Free
Chinese Parents
A life sim with real Chinese flavor: you grow up in an ordinary family from birth to the Gaokao, juggling study, friends and a first crush. Then the twist: when you have your own child, you decide what kind of parent to be. Funny, sharp and quietly touching about growing up.
Hand-drawn, Cute, Emotional
91% of 23,292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 228$9.99
Little Lives
Little Lives is a fun, casual life-sim game. Balance your time between your career, education and relationships as you explore an exciting town filled with possibility.
Colorful, Cute, Replayable
81% of 246 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
The Parenting Simulator
This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more important than ruling a fantasy kingdom. You, and you alone, must turn your newborn baby into a functional adult. Will you be a tiger mom or a helicopter dad?
Emotional, Story-driven, Replayable
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The Way of Life: DEFINITIVE EDITION
Experience a swirling of emotions in this touching adventure through the lives of three characters of different ages. 10 Experiences, 30 Levels and more than 70 choices. Can you face yourself?
Emotional, Story-driven, Replayable
66% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
OurLife
OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing. Live any life, make any choice: OurLife.
Emotional, Story-driven, Replayable
81% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$4.99
Volcano Princess
A widowed father raises his daughter in the Volcano Kingdom, from her first wobbly steps to her coming of age. Pick her classes, hobbies and friends, watch her grow into someone shaped entirely by your choices, and find out who she becomes across many different endings.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Colorful, Cute
97% of 45,438 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 229$10.99
Class of '09
The anti-visual novel: you play Nicole, a high schooler with unlimited social leverage, and wreck the lives of your would-be suitors. Biting late 2000s satire, sharp dialogue and 15 endings. Dark, funny and mean in all the right places.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Emotional, Story-driven
94% of 8,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$9.99
Consume Me
A life sim RPG about Jenny's final year of high school: schedule every hour, solve the puzzle of every meal, chase grades, money and the boy of your dreams. Darkly funny, hand-drawn and surprisingly stressful, with over 13 endings, most of them bad.
Hand-drawn, Colorful, Cute
91% of 1,102 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Little Sim World
Little Sim World hands you the keys to a fixer-upper in Little London, a cute 2D city where you can romance the locals, learn to cook, fish, paint or write, and rebuild a house corner by corner. Play alone at your own pace or share the neighborhood with up to 4 friends in online co-op.
Hand-drawn, Colorful, Cute
79% of 681 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$17.99

Cheaper than Growing Up

Chinese Parents

Live a childhood of study, friends and first love, then become the parent and shape a new life your way.

$9.99

Little Lives

Little Lives is a fun, casual life-sim game. Balance your time between your career, education and relationships as you explore an exciting town…

$12.99

The Parenting Simulator

This is a story where you do something more terrifying than entering a haunted house, more dangerous than assaulting an alien horde, and more…

$5.99

OurLife

OurLife is a text-forward life simulator game filled with immersive, choice-driven systems that impact more than just the character you're playing.

$4.99

Volcano Princess

Guide a girl from childhood to adulthood through classes, friendships and first love, and see which of many endings your choices lead to.

$10.99

Class of '09

Play Nicole, a high schooler with all the social power, and steer her cruel comedy through branching routes to one of many endings.

$9.99

Ciel Fledge: A Daughter Raising Simulator

Daughter Raising Simulator with in-depth management gameplay, backed by an outstanding City Pop soundtrack.

$9.99

Old School

Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun!

$9.74

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

Super Life (RPG)

Welcome home to Sun Villa! After a long summer at grandpa's ranch, it's time to finish school, get a job and move into your own place.

$9.99

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

THE GAME OF LIFE 2

Spin the spinner, pick a peg and live a whole life in half an hour: college or career, marriage or pets, a house or three.

$12.49

Hidden gems like Growing Up

Consume Me

Schedule Jenny's days, juggle grades, money and a crush, and steer a darkly funny high school year toward one of many endings.

$14.99

I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

Free

This Grand Life 2

Build a character, chase careers, businesses and property, and let a shifting economy rewrite your plans each run.

$17.99

Whimel Academy

Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game.

$14.99

Little Sim World

Renovate your corner of a cute 2D Little London, pick up hobbies and friendships, and play at your own pace with friends.

$17.99

Office Life

Climb from fresh graduate through office politics, stocks and romance, with branching choices that lead to many different endings.

$19.99

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

Class of '09: The Re-Up

Steer Nicole through another year of high school across branching storylines, sharp dialogue and seven different endings.

$14.99

Old School

Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun!

$9.74

To Pixelia

Start over in a colorful pixel city, pick a career from dozens of paths, and shape each day at your own pace, with a farm waiting if you need quiet.

$14.99

Little Lives

Little Lives is a fun, casual life-sim game. Balance your time between your career, education and relationships as you explore an exciting town…

$12.99

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

A decade of choices, friendships and first love on a strange planet, lived again and again with every memory intact.

$24.99

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