Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Muse Dash (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Muse Dash on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: NEKOPARA Vol. 0, which both relaxing.
- Muse Dash is tagged Music, Rhythm, Anime, Cute, Sexual Content, Female Protagonist, Casual, Great Soundtrack by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 6 are free to download, so you can test the resemblance yourself at no cost.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
- 1
NEKOPARA Vol. 0
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 12 player tags including Anime, Nudity and Sexual Content; released around the same time (2015).
Please note that NEKOPARA Vol. 0 is a fandisc for NEKOPARA Vol. 1What's NEKOPARA? Why, it's a cat paradise! This is a story just before Kashou opened "La Soleil".Enjoy a page from the leisurely, daily lives of Shigure and the Minaduki household's catgirls!
NEKOPARA Vol. 0 at a glance Released 2015 Studio NEKO WORKs Player sentiment 94% positive of 17,786 Price $2.99 AnimeNuditySexual ContentCuteMatureHentaiCasual2D
- 2
A Dance of Fire and Ice
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Rhythm, Music and Difficult; released around the same time (2019).
A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.
A Dance of Fire and Ice at a glance Released 2019 Studio 7th Beat Games Player sentiment 94% positive of 83,377 Price $4.79 RhythmMusicDifficultIndie2DArcadeColorfulCasual
- 3
Puyo PuyoTetris
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Casual, Cute and Anime; released around the same time (2018).
Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as global phenomenon Tetris® and SEGA’s famous Puyo Puyo™ combine in a super mash-up of ferocious competition, adorable looks, and addictive puzzle fun!
Puyo PuyoTetris at a glance Released 2018 Studio Sonic Team Player sentiment 85% positive of 5,571 Price $19.99 CasualCuteAnimeColorfulArcadeGreat Soundtrack2DDifficult
- 4
Helltaker
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 11 player tags including Cute, Indie and Anime; released around the same time (2020).
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Helltaker at a glance Released 2020 Studio vanripper Player sentiment 98% positive of 128,069 Price Free CuteIndieAnimeGreat SoundtrackSexual Content2DDifficultHentai
- 5
Geometry Dash
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Difficult, Music and Great Soundtrack.
Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!
Geometry Dash at a glance Released 2013 Studio RobTop Games Player sentiment 93% positive of 637,714 Price $4.99 DifficultMusicGreat Soundtrack2DRhythmColorfulIndieArcade
- 6
DJMAX RESPECT V
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Rhythm, Music and Casual; released around the same time (2020).
DJMAX RESPECT V is the latest installment from the creators of the critically acclaimed rhythm game franchise ‘DJMAX.’ Experience tracks from popular artists such as Marshmello, Porter Robinson, and Yukika, exclusive Full HD Music Videos, online multiplayer, new game modes, and more!
DJMAX RESPECT V at a glance Released 2020 Studio NEOWIZ Player sentiment 89% positive of 34,805 Price $49.99 RhythmMusicCasualAnime2DArcadeCuteDifficult
- 7
HuniePop
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 10 player tags including Nudity, Mature and Sexual Content; released around the same time (2015).
HuniePop is a unique sim experience for PC, Mac and Linux. It's a gameplay first approach that's part dating sim, part puzzle game, with light RPG elements, a visual novel style of presentation, an abrasive western writing style and plenty of "plot".
HuniePop at a glance Released 2015 Studio HuniePot Player sentiment 96% positive of 31,679 Price $9.99 NudityMatureSexual ContentAnimeHentaiCuteIndieCasual
- 8
Crush Crush
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 10 player tags including Sexual Content, Nudity and Hentai; released around the same time (2016).
Welcome to Crush Crush - the Idle Dating Sim! Meet, flirt, and fall in love with a motley cast of girls in this heartfelt and hilarious game.
Crush Crush at a glance Released 2016 Studio Sad Panda Studios Player sentiment 89% positive of 28,492 Price Free Sexual ContentNudityHentaiAnimeMatureCuteCasualFunny
- 9
Super Hexagon
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Difficult, Great Soundtrack and Indie.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Super Hexagon at a glance Released 2012 Studio Terry Cavanagh Player sentiment 97% positive of 25,111 Price $2.99 DifficultGreat SoundtrackIndieArcadeRhythmMusic2DColorful
- 10
Sakura Swim Club
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 10 player tags including Nudity, Anime and Mature; released around the same time (2015).
In Sakura Swim Club, follow the story of Kaede, just your average guy. Upon transferring to a new school, he meets two beautiful girls in the swim club. Things haven't gone well for the swim club lately, but with Kaede's help, that all changes.
Sakura Swim Club at a glance Released 2015 Studio Winged Cloud Player sentiment 85% positive of 2,772 Price $9.99 NudityAnimeMatureSexual ContentHentaiIndieCasualCute
- 11
Sakura Clicker
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 10 player tags including Nudity, Anime and Sexual Content; released around the same time (2015).
The latest entry in the Sakura series is more action-packed than ever before! Sakura Clickers is a fast-paced, exciting adventure, full of content, in which you defeat your foes with the power of your mouse!
Sakura Clicker at a glance Released 2015 Studio Winged Cloud Player sentiment 83% positive of 14,318 Price Free NudityAnimeSexual ContentMatureFemale ProtagonistHentaiCasualIndie
- 12
100% Orange Juice
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Anime, Cute and Indie.
100% Orange Juice is a digital multiplayer board game populated by developer Orange Juice's all-star cast. Characters from Flying Red Barrel, QP Shooting, Suguri and Sora come together with all-new characters to duke it out... with dice.
100% Orange Juice at a glance Released 2014 Studio Orange_Juice Player sentiment 91% positive of 30,159 Price $6.99 AnimeCuteIndieCasualFunnyGreat SoundtrackFemale Protagonist2D
- 13
Defy Gravity Extended
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Indie, 2D and Difficult; released around the same time (2016).
Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.
Defy Gravity Extended at a glance Released 2016 Studio Paul Fisch Player sentiment 86% positive of 8,531 Price $0.55 Indie2DDifficultCasualGreat SoundtrackFemale ProtagonistArcadeFunny
- 14
Mirror
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 9 player tags including Sexual Content, Nudity and Hentai; released around the same time (2018).
This is a game that combines match-3, GALGAME elements and beauties. If you want to learn more about those beauties, you need to best them first. How the story goes is choice-based so your choices will ultimately decide their fate.
Mirror at a glance Released 2018 Studio KAGAMI WORKS Player sentiment 96% positive of 84,022 Price $1.99 Sexual ContentNudityHentaiMatureAnimeFemale ProtagonistCuteIndie
- 15
Astral Party
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 10 player tags including Sexual Content, Hentai and Anime.
Astral Party is a multiplayer party game populated by cute anime girls! Choose your favorite character, strategize skills & cards, and roll the dice to destroy friendships in this unique board game.
Astral Party at a glance Released 2024 Studio STAR ENGINE PROJECT Player sentiment 55% positive of 21,257 Price Free Sexual ContentHentaiAnimeCuteCasualNudityFemale ProtagonistFunny
- 16
One Finger Death Punch
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Indie, 2D and Casual.
Experience cinematic kung-fu battles in the fastest, most intense brawler the indie world has ever seen! With the unique 1:1 response system of One Finger Death Punch, players will feel the immediate feedback of every bone-crunching hit. Pay tribute to the masters using five classic kung-fu styles mixed with additional weapons.
One Finger Death Punch at a glance Released 2014 Studio Silver Dollar Games Player sentiment 98% positive of 16,338 Price $4.99 Indie2DCasualDifficultArcadeGreat SoundtrackRhythmFunny
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Zuma
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Arcade, 2D and Funny.
Deep in the jungle lie hidden temples bursting with traps and trickery, and it's up to you to uncover their treasures. Fire magical balls from your stone frog idol to make matches of three or more and clear the deadly chain before it reaches the golden skull.
Zuma at a glance Released 2003 Studio Oberon Media Player sentiment 96% positive of 6,806 Price $4.99 Arcade2DFunnyCasualCuteColorfulIndieDifficult
- 18
Tricolour Lovestory
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 9 player tags including Mature, Sexual Content and Nudity; released around the same time (2017).
Time flies and never comes back. But with an incredible 1-million-word script and 100+ original CGs, this game will take you back to when you were young, simple and pure. Go and get the love of your life back, start something new, or end everything in flame, that's for you to decide!
Tricolour Lovestory at a glance Released 2017 Studio HL-Galgame Player sentiment 81% positive of 28,058 Price $1.99 MatureSexual ContentNudityAnimeCasualGreat SoundtrackIndieCute
- 19
HoloCure - Save the Fans!
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Anime, Cute and 2D; released around the same time (2023).
Play as your favorite Vtubers from Hololive! Fight, explore, and clear your way through armies of fans and save them from their mind-control in this unofficial free fan-game.
HoloCure - Save the Fans! at a glance Released 2023 Studio KayAnimate Player sentiment 99% positive of 40,697 Price Free AnimeCute2DCasualFemale ProtagonistArcadeColorful
- 20
Iron Snout
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Funny, 2D and Indie; released around the same time (2016).
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Iron Snout at a glance Released 2016 Studio SnoutUp Player sentiment 98% positive of 17,480 Price Free Funny2DIndieCasualArcadeCuteDifficult
- 21
Baba Is You
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Indie, Difficult and Cute; released around the same time (2019).
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Baba Is You at a glance Released 2019 Studio Hempuli Oy Player sentiment 98% positive of 24,536 Price $14.99 IndieDifficultCute2DGreat SoundtrackCasualFunny
- 22
Overcooked
Why it matched: both relaxing and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Casual, Funny and Indie; released around the same time (2016).
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Overcooked at a glance Released 2016 Studio Ghost Town Games Ltd. Player sentiment 90% positive of 16,692 Price $16.99 CasualFunnyIndieCuteColorfulDifficultGreat Soundtrack
- 23
Just Shapes & Beats
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Rhythm, Great Soundtrack and Music; released around the same time (2018).
"Just Shapes & Beats" is a chaotic co-op musical bullet-hell based on three simple things: avoid Shapes, move to the kick-ass Beats, and die, repeatedly.
Just Shapes & Beats at a glance Released 2018 Studio Berzerk Studio Player sentiment 98% positive of 26,015 Price $11.99 RhythmGreat SoundtrackMusicDifficult2DIndieColorfulFunny
- 24
GRIS
Why it matched: both relaxing; shares 8 player tags including Beautiful, Great Soundtrack and Indie; released around the same time (2018).
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
GRIS at a glance Released 2018 Studio Nomada Studio Player sentiment 96% positive of 96,216 Price $14.99 BeautifulGreat SoundtrackIndieFemale Protagonist2DColorfulCasualAnime
Common questions
What game is most like Muse Dash?
NEKOPARA Vol. 0, on the evidence we have. It both relaxing. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Muse Dash" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Muse Dash. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.