Games like Cats and the Other Lives
If Cats and the Other Lives is your kind of game, the closest matches are Radio Ghosts, 随风而逝 Story About Times and ARIJIGOKU — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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 Cats and the Other Lives: Part interactive fiction, part Felis domesticus adventure, “Cats and the Other Lives” explores the reunion of a broken family from the perspective of their house cat, Aspen.
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Steam players who put hours into Cats and the Other Lives 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.
Radio Ghosts
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Top pick for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.
随风而逝 Story About Times
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Second-strongest match for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!
ARIJIGOKU
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Third-strongest match for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
A short, narrative-driven 2D pixel art adventure/horror game. Play as Erik, a man lost in grief, as you explore a secluded forest, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth. With multiple endings and deadly choices, curiosity can cost you — so save often.
VIDEOVERSE
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Cats and the Other Lives.
Ranked #4 for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Mama
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Ranked #5 for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
An emotional narrative point-and-click about a daughter caring for her mother as dementia reshapes their bond. Explore heartfelt conversations, fragmented memories, and story-driven puzzles on a journey of caregiving and learning to let go.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
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Shares narrative branching and an atmospheric mood with Cats and the Other Lives.
Ranked #6 for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Finding Paradise
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Shares an emotional mood with Cats and the Other Lives.
Ranked #7 for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
Robotherapy
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Ranked #8 for Cats and the Other Lives fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cats and the Other Lives at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Cats and the Other Lives on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Cats and the Other Lives on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
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?
Inscryption
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Priced ~60% under Cats and the Other Lives on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
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...
Noita
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Priced ~60% under Cats and the Other Lives on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~95% under Cats and the Other Lives on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
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?
Papers, Please
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Priced ~50% under Cats and the Other Lives on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
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.
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. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Cats and the Other Lives.
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.
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Frequently asked about Cats and the Other Lives
- Does Cats and the Other Lives run on Steam Deck?
- Cats and the Other Lives is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Cats and the Other Lives cost?
- Cats and the Other Lives is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cats and the Other Lives?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cats and the Other Lives are Radio Ghosts, 随风而逝 Story About Times, ARIJIGOKU.
- Who developed Cats and the Other Lives?
- Cats and the Other Lives was developed by Cultic Games and published by Cultic Games, Maple Whispering Limited.
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 Cats and the Other Lives.
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