Games like CATharsis
If CATharsis is your kind of game, the closest matches are lovebyte.exe, Reanimation Scheme and How to Take Off Your Mask Remastered — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About CATharsis: STORY:This is a visual novel and adventure game set in the present day.(It is not an otome game.)
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lovebyte.exe
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Top pick for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
A chat dating sim game inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTuber communities, and internet spam
Reanimation Scheme
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Second-strongest match for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
An otome game and romance visual novel. Step into the shoes of the necromancer, Raenelle. Meet a colorful cast of characters, fail to summon the spirits of the dead, unravel mysteries, and maybe — just maybe — fall in love.
How to Take Off Your Mask Remastered
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Third-strongest match for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
The cute fantasy visual novel, "How to Take Off Your Mask" returns as a remastered version. One day, Lilia wakes up as a girl with cat ears and a tail! How could this happen, and how will her love story with her childhood friend, Ronan, unfold?
Saintess of the Golden Bow
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Ranked #4 for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with CATharsis.
Trapped in a time loop as the Saintess of the Golden Bow, every choice matters and every death is a second chance. Use knowledge from past timelines to unlock new paths and strengthen bonds in this otome visual novel. Can you rewrite fate, or are you bound to relive despair forever?
Pre-Odyssey: Love at First Quack
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Ranked #5 for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CATharsis.
She’s a princess beloved by ducks. He’s a notorious king of schemes. A romantic fragment from a 3000-year old EPIC, retold as an Otome visual novel… but with ducks somehow added to the mix.
Trapped with Jester
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Ranked #6 for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CATharsis.
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
私のリアルは充実しすぎている フルボイス版
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Ranked #7 for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
顔良し、頭良し、性格良し。 完全無欠のリア充女子が送るドタバタラブコメディ！（たぶん）
Bake Neko Love
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Ranked #8 for CATharsis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
You are a depressed Bake-Neko that everyone mistakes for an adorable cat. Your one and only goal: to end it all. A visual novel with multiple choices, featuring diverse, deep, magical and deeply endearing characters. Every decision will shape your relationships and your fate.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CATharsis at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under CATharsis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CATharsis.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under CATharsis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CATharsis.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under CATharsis on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CATharsis.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under CATharsis on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CATharsis.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under CATharsis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under CATharsis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CATharsis.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under CATharsis on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CATharsis.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CATharsis.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CATharsis.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Penguin's Dogma｜獄門ペンギン
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Another title from MIYAKOpubl, the studio behind CATharsis. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
Penguin's Dogma｜ 獄門ペンギン Welcome to Penguin's Dogma, a silly, lowbrow stealth game.
春と修羅｜Haru to Shura
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Another title from MIYAKOpubl, the studio behind CATharsis. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
Explore a mysterious world as the protagonist in this short adventure game with pixel graphics.
CONET｜コネット
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Another title from MIYAKOpubl, the studio behind CATharsis. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
"Conet" is an extremely simple one-on-one puzzle battle game of dots and boxes.
Start a Startup with a Legendary Japanese Warlord
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Another title from MIYAKOpubl, the studio behind CATharsis. Shares Indie and Casual with CATharsis.
A short visual novel with quizzes to help you dip your toes into the world of startups.
Frequently asked about CATharsis
- How much does CATharsis cost?
- CATharsis is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CATharsis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CATharsis are lovebyte.exe, Reanimation Scheme, How to Take Off Your Mask Remastered.
- Who developed CATharsis?
- CATharsis was developed by MIYAKOpubl.
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