Games like COVID Kawaii!
If COVID Kawaii! is your kind of game, the closest matches are HexeD, Stacked! and Puropu Defense Squad — 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 COVID Kawaii!: COVID Kawaii! is the cutest pandemic tower defense this side of the partition glass. Using the power of common sense and cleaning products, defend your personal space from the oncoming virus hoard. Can you go the social distance?
Players who liked COVID Kawaii! also play
Steam players who put hours into COVID Kawaii! also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
HexeD
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Top pick for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
Can you build and fight through endless levels to bring life and color to your world? Customize towers and troops to ward off enemies in this fast-paced and colorful tower defense.
Stacked!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
A pleasant evening to relax - but not here. Get dressed, fix your hair, and strike a winning pose. Try building a tower out of your small figurines alone, or gather up to 4 players. A lucky figurine can lead to victory - or defeat.
Puropu Defense Squad
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
Defend your world as sentient Props in Puropu Defense Squad! Build, upgrade, and evolve your heroes to crush waves of filthy humans worldwide. Dive into a unique mix of third-person action and tower defense—solo or with friends—in an endlessly replayable co-op campaign!
Ratty Catty
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Ranked #4 for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
Ratty Catty is a Multiplayer / CO-OP hide & seek game about the adventures of a domestic cat Catty and hazel dormouse Ratty, who eats the foods in the house, feeds its babies, and lives in a small rat nest.
Rock of Ages
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Ranked #5 for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!
Manic Mechanics
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Ranked #6 for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with COVID Kawaii!.
In Manic Mechanics, up to four players pull on their overalls and head to the auto-obsessed Octane Isle, looking to make a name for themselves as travelling mechanics. Whether played solo or with friends, co-op or versus, Manic Mechanics has plenty of comedic chaos to go around!
Feudal Friends
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Ranked #7 for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with COVID Kawaii!.
Produce your soldiers, Improve your equipment, Battle and Win in a chaotic castle! Build your team for 1-4 Online Co-op and PVE mode options! Determine your strategy with over 40 Rune options and be the first to destroy the opposing tower.
KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2
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Ranked #8 for COVID Kawaii! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with COVID Kawaii!.
KILL IT WITH FIRE! 2 is the ultimate co-op spider-hunting experience! Either solo or as a team of Exterminators, unleash an arsenal of crazy weapons, wreak havoc, and complete dozens of challenges across seven dimensions under spider siege.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below COVID Kawaii! at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with COVID Kawaii!.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with COVID Kawaii!.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with COVID Kawaii!.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under COVID Kawaii! on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with COVID Kawaii!.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with COVID Kawaii!.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with COVID Kawaii!.
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 Simulation with COVID Kawaii!.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with COVID Kawaii!.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 COVID Kawaii!.
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.
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Frequently asked about COVID Kawaii!
- How much does COVID Kawaii! cost?
- COVID Kawaii! is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does COVID Kawaii! have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — COVID Kawaii! supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to COVID Kawaii!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside COVID Kawaii! are HexeD, Stacked!, Puropu Defense Squad.
- Who developed COVID Kawaii!?
- COVID Kawaii! was developed by Wade Arcade.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on COVID Kawaii!.
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