Games Like I Can Smell You from Here

I Can Smell You from Here is a short visual novel by catproblem9735: a first date from a dating app, a lie you have to keep alive, 5 endings and a probably unnecessarily precise psychological evaluation that shows you how close you actually are to her heart each run. A game made this list only if it shares at least two of those things: a romance or dating set-up, a horror turn, the same mix of dark comedy and gore, or a single conversation that decides how it ends.

Every developer, date, platform and content warning below is copied from the game’s own Steam store page, checked on 2026-10-08. We do not quote prices because they change with sales, and we do not rate or score the games. This site is a fan site for I Can Smell You from Here only and has no deal with any of these developers.

Sucker for Love: First Date

The closest match in tone. Akabaka’s game pitches itself as putting the love in Lovecraftian horror: you perform rituals to win the affection of eldritch horrors, and the jokes and the threat arrive together, just like Idimya’s small talk.

How it differs: you are the one chasing the monster, not hiding a lie from her, and the horror is cosmic rather than cannibal. It is a paid Windows game.

Developer

Akabaka

On Steam since

2022-01-20

Price

Paid on Steam

Platforms

Windows

Store warning

“Features insanity, flashes of graphic bodily injury, censored swearing, innuendo, sexual themes.”

Sucker for Love: First Date on Steam opens on Steam

Doki Doki Literature Club!

The best-known “cute dating game that is not what it looks like”. It opens as a bright school-club romance and turns into psychological horror. If the moment I Can Smell You from Here stopped being a normal date was your favourite part, start here.

How it differs: it is much longer, it plays with the game files themselves instead of one dinner table, and it has no cannibalism. Like I Can Smell You from Here, it costs nothing.

Developer

Team Salvato

On Steam since

2017-10-06

Price

Free on Steam

Platforms

Windows, macOS

Store warning

“This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.”

Doki Doki Literature Club! on Steam opens on Steam

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

If the cannibalism and the deadpan, awful conversations were what stayed with you, this is the pick. The store page describes a brother and sister who practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual, told as a walk-and-talk adventure with light puzzles.

How it differs: it is not a dating game, you control two siblings instead of one nervous date, and it is a paid game listed as Early Access.

Developer

Kit9 Studio

On Steam since

2023-10-13

Price

Paid on Steam

Platforms

Windows

Store warning

“Contains strong language, violence and gore, and suggestive themes.”

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley on Steam opens on Steam

MiSide

For the feeling of a sweet partner slowly becoming dangerous. It starts with a game in which you care for a character, then pulls you inside that game. Its store page warns of murder scenes, blood, corpses and dismemberment.

How it differs: it is a 3D adventure rather than a visual novel, it is much longer, and it is paid.

Developer

AIHASTO

On Steam since

2024-12-10

Price

Paid on Steam

Platforms

Windows

Store warning

“The game contains murder scenes, also present: blood, corpses, dismemberment.”

MiSide on Steam opens on Steam

None of these games is built around the fear the creator describes on the official page: telling one lie, then having to make up ever more ridiculous details to keep the story straight. I Can Smell You from Here is also the shortest and the easiest to start of the five.