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An experiment by Prashant Matta
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In Aliya: Timelink you: level up a character, read and choose, read a story

1,379 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

Your party Games like Aliya: Timelink

Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. 蔚蓝月下的回忆~SAPPHIRE MOON-FOREVER MEMORIES

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: jump through side-on levels, a relaxed pace

    Why you’d like it: Like Aliya, you read a story and make choices, here by picking map locations and trading phone messages with its heroines.

    See on Steam: 蔚蓝月下的回忆~SAPPHIRE MOON-FOREVER MEMORIES (opens in a new tab)

  2. 他人世界末 On-looker

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Mature
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Doesn’t keep: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: run a simulation, romance

    Why you’d like it: Like Aliya, you read a story and shape it through your choices, here leading to thirteen different endings.

    See on Steam: 他人世界末 On-looker (opens in a new tab)

  3. Vampires’ Melody 2

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: role-play Japanese-style, a female lead

    Why you’d like it: Vampires’ Melody 2 keeps the read-and-choose storytelling, now with two vampires stranded on a deserted island trying to survive.

    See on Steam: Vampires’ Melody 2 (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Kanna Maze

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: solve puzzles, psychological horror

    See on Steam: Kanna Maze (opens in a new tab)

  2. 恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Mature
    • Doesn’t keep: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: a cute look, romance

    See on Steam: 恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相 (opens in a new tab)

  3. 流光易逝的夏末 - Fleeting Summer’s End

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: LGBTQ+ characters, a cute look

    See on Steam: 流光易逝的夏末 - Fleeting Summer’s End (opens in a new tab)

  4. Love in the distance

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Doesn’t keep: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: an anime look

    See on Steam: Love in the distance (opens in a new tab)

  5. My Cat Girl Lover

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: role-play Japanese-style, LGBTQ+ characters

    See on Steam: My Cat Girl Lover (opens in a new tab)

  6. 咒影 Curse of the Shadow

    • Puzzle
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: investigate, LGBTQ+ characters

    See on Steam: 咒影 Curse of the Shadow (opens in a new tab)

  7. The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City’s Fall

    • Story
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: level up a character
    • Keeps: read and choose
    • Keeps: read a story

    New here: stay alive, real history

    See on Steam: The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City’s Fall (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: 他人世界末 On-lookerVampires’ Melody 2恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City’s Fall

AI wrote the “Why you’d like it” lines, and a second AI pass checked them against each game’s store page. They can be wrong, so check the store page before you buy.

How this list was made

1,379 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

What gets in

A game is what you do in it, so a pick has to share what players say you do most. If fewer than ten games earn a place, the list stays short.

Lists use the tags Steam players vote on, plus each game’s Steam store page.

Less played means far fewer Steam reviews than the game you finished. Mixed reviews means 60 to 69% of its Steam reviews are positive.

What only changes the order

A shared setting, look or popularity can move a game up or down, but it can’t put a game on the list by itself. Being set in space, for example, isn’t enough: a pick has to keep something you do.

What isn’t known

No players have tested this. Newer and smaller games have less data.

Privacy

To learn whether this works, the page records how it’s used. This is all of it.

What’s recorded

Searches

The text you type is never sent to Next Up. If it matches a game Next Up knows but has no list for, only that game’s number is recorded. If it matches nothing, only the fact that it matched nothing is recorded, with a rough length such as 4 to 6 characters.

Suggestions show a small image of each game, loaded straight from Steam’s image servers. So while you type, Steam sees which games’ images your browser asks for, though not the text itself.

The random ID

Your browser keeps a random ID for up to 6 months after your last visit, so repeat visits can be counted. It’s created when the first batch of this record goes out, which is your first action or the first time you leave or switch away from the page, whichever comes first. It’s stored in this browser, not in a cookie.

The ID is kept like this only in the US, Canada outside Quebec, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else, nothing is stored for it: the ID lasts only until you close or reload the tab, so a return visit counts as a new one. That’s decided from the location Cloudflare reports for your connection, so a VPN can change it. If it reports no country, or Canada with no region, nothing is stored either.

From your connection

The record keeps your country and region, device type, operating system and browser family, language, and the kind of site you came from. Your IP address, city and network aren’t stored, and this recording uses no cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie of its own.

Who else sees a visit

Cloudflare hosts the page and this data, and handles your connection like any web host. Store links and Steam searches go to Steam only if you click them, and Steam then sees that visit.

Game art loads straight from Steam’s image servers (shared.akamai.steamstatic.com and shared.fastly.steamstatic.com): on the first screen’s game tiles as soon as it opens, in search suggestions as you type, and on each list. So your browser contacts Steam for those images, and Steam sees that connection and which games’ images were asked for.

Google Analytics is blocked on this page by its security policy, but the rest of pmatta.design uses it.

AI-written lines

The “Why you’d like it” lines on cards were written by AI ahead of time and checked by a second AI pass. No AI runs while you browse.

How long it’s kept

Up to 13 months.

Turn counting off

Turning it off stops this browser sending anything and removes the ID. The choice is kept in this browser, so clearing site data turns counting back on, and so can a browser that clears such data by itself, as Safari can after 7 days without a visit. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, counting is already off, and the ID is removed. What was sent before you turned it off is kept for up to 13 months, like the rest.

To ask about any of this, write to privacy@pmatta.design.