CLANNAD Side Stories similar games & best alternatives

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CLANNAD Side Stories

Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Switch • 2016

Should you play it?

Delve further into the world of CLANNAD and experience the stories beyond the original visual novel adventure. Known as CLANNAD Hikari Mimamoru Sakamichi de in Japan, This Steam version features high resolution assets and is translated into English for the very first time.

What works

  • Deep emotional narrative
  • Voice acting and music enhance atmosphere
  • New character perspectives and backstories
  • Short, manageable story lengths
  • High quality new cg art

Things to keep in mind

  • No manual text control or skipping
  • No save/load functionality
  • Lack of character sprites and visual variety
  • Some stories considered weak or filler
  • Price considered high for content by some

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • KARAKARA

  • A Kiss For The Petals - Remembering How We Met

  • 恋爱关系/Romance

  • LoveKami -Useless Goddess-

  • Supipara - Chapter 1 Spring Has Come!

  • KARAKARA2

More autonomous

Games that feels like CLANNAD Side Stories but with more freedom over how you play

  • Amairo Chocolate 2

  • Epiphyllum in Love

  • Koi x Shin Ai Kanojo

  • Dream Ending

  • Senren＊Banka

  • ATRI -My Dear Moments-

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • planetarian HD

  • Kanon

  • AIR

  • Summer Pockets

  • Tomoyo After ~It's a Wonderful Life~ English Edition

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with CLANNAD Side Stories. These titles are not in What to play next.

CLANNAD Side Stories: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Autonomy, Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026