Games like Copycat
If Copycat is your kind of game, the closest matches are An Everyday Story, Sayri: The Beginning and A Cure for Jessica — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautifully crafted dream sequences, writing quality is exceptional 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 →Copycat is a 2024 narrative adventure indie game that follows a newly adopted shelter cat whose place in its new home is threatened by a rival. Players navigate the story through interactive sequences and meaningful decision-making that carries consequences throughout the experience. The game is verified to run smoothly on Steam Deck and is designed for relaxed, sit-down play sessions. Set in a short, story-driven format, it uses dream-like sequences to explore themes of rejection, belonging, and what it means to have a home. Players describe the experience as emotional, poignant, and at times unsettling, with themes that reviewers find deeply resonant and thought-provoking. The game holds an 87% positive rating from 2,223 Steam reviews.
About Copycat: A poignant narrative-driven game about rejection, belonging and the meaning of home. It follows the story of a newly adopted shelter cat whose space in the home is taken by a copycat. Bring the tissues.
Players who liked Copycat also play
Steam players who put hours into Copycat 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.
An Everyday Story
WHY THIS
Top pick for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Copycat.
An Everyday Story is a 2.5D story-driven puzzle platformer with a heartfelt twist. Experience life from the view of three trinkets... what do you think happens when our dreams become so real that they stain our reality?
Sayri: The Beginning
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
Sayri: The Beginning aims to warm your heart and whisk you away on a colorful journey to a new home, filled with emotion and wonder. Experience a beautiful, living world where friendship is the only recipe for surviving the unknown.
A Cure for Jessica
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
An emotional story-driven game, where you play as Dr. Olivia, a scientist trying to find a way to cure her daughter. Explore the world and save Jessica from this deadly virus, as you recall some memories.
Across
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
Explore a world filled with mystery, ruins and unknown creatures as you reveal the memories of the Cub’s owner Estelle and her parents as they make their way to the city while a war approaches the kingdom.
Tell Me Why
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with Copycat.
Ranked #5 for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Copycat.
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
Lost Brothers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
103
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
Help Lily use her imagination to unlock her memories and relive the events of a night that changed her life. Discover what happened and what is 103.
Ghost on the Shore
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with Copycat.
Ranked #8 for Copycat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Copycat.
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Copycat at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Copycat.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Copycat.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Copycat.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Copycat on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 with Copycat.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Copycat.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Copycat.
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 with Copycat.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Copycat.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Copycat.
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 and Adventure with Copycat.
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 Copycat
- Is Copycat verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Copycat is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Copycat cost?
- Copycat is listed on Steam at 7.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Copycat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Copycat are An Everyday Story, Sayri: The Beginning, A Cure for Jessica.
- Who developed Copycat?
- Copycat was developed by Spoonful Of Wonder and published by Neverland Entertainment, CriticalLeap, Spoonful Of Wonder.
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 Copycat.
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