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Games like Chinese Parents

2018PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable91 % positive8.19 €

A life sim where you grow up as a child in China, balancing study, friendships and fun while heading toward the Gaokao exam. Your choices shape your life, including later as a parent.

  • Choices with consequences
  • Pixel art
  • Emotional impact
  • Lots of humour

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Mushroom Musume

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2022PCSteam Deck verified94 % positive14.79 €

Fits your focus: Combat like Chinese Parents and Systems like Chinese Parents.

A text-based life sim in the vein of Princess Maker 2, where you raise a mushroom girl as a hermit and shape who she becomes through your choices. Quirky, humorous and full of different possible outcomes.

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Princess Maker 2 Refine

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

You raise a girl from age 10 to 18 as her father, scheduling lessons, jobs and adventures month by month. Your decisions shape her stats and lead to dozens of different endings.

Royal Order

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

A historical fantasy visual novel of court intrigue, magic and LGBT+ romance, where you keep your characters alive by raising their stats, hosting social events and leading campaigns in a war.

Consume Me

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

A semi-autobiographical life sim about surviving high school, where you juggle time, diet and obligations through puzzle-style mechanics. Funny, painfully honest and visually distinctive.

Beat Cop

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

As beat cop Jack Kelly you patrol 1980s Brooklyn, writing tickets, juggling time and favors, and trying to clear your name of a frame-up murder. Pixel art, dark humor and choices between honesty and corruption give it a retro cop-show flavor.

Royal Alchemist

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

An otome/BxB dating sim set in a high-fantasy royal court where you raise stats, survive intrigue and build relationships. Your choices shape the outcome, with betrayal and death always looming.

Volcano Princess

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

As the adoptive father of a baby found on a battlefield, you plan her training and encounters week by week. Your decisions shape her future and the fate of the volcano kingdom, leading to many different endings.

Ciel Fledge

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

You raise an adopted daughter over ten years in a post-apocalyptic world, shaping her personality and future through daily decisions. A gentle raising sim with management elements and multiple possible endings.

Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip

  • Combat like Chinese Parents
  • Systems like Chinese Parents

A chaotic comedy road trip full of oddball monsters where you play solo or in co-op, managing resources, making branching choices and flirting along the way. Humor and heavily branching text-driven stories are the heart of it.

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