Games like This & Cats
If This & Cats is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shelves and Sorcery: Tidy Up the Enchanted Shop, Sunrise Story and Store It! — 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 This & Cats: Managing a small shop is cool, but it's even cooler when there are cats around! This & Cats is a relaxing first-person life sim in which you earn money by adopting cats and making customers happy.
Players who liked This & Cats also play
Steam players who put hours into This & Cats 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.
Shelves and Sorcery: Tidy Up the Enchanted Shop
WHY THIS
Top pick for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
A cozy fantasy organization simulator where every shelf tells a story. Restore order to a ransacked magical shop by sorting thousands of weapons, potions, books, food, and treasures with satisfying fantasy inspired organization.
Sunrise Story
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
Run your own seaside homestay in a cozy pixel art life sim 🌊 Welcome travelers, cook Southeast Asian–inspired dishes, and build a peaceful life by the sea.
Store It!
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
Store things, earn money with it and improve your warehouse! You play a small, cute robot who uses his Gravity-Gun to take care of his customers' belongings, but be careful not to break anything!
Luminons: Seeds of Starlight
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
A cozy HD-2D monster-taming RPG where farming your crops powers up creatures for arena battles and beauty contests.
Paper Paws
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
Paper Paws — a cozy card collecting game about kittens! Scratch, clean, laminate and collect all the cats in your album. Can you collect them all?
DinoLife
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with This & Cats.
Hatch Dinos! Upgrade your town! Buy a house! In DinoLife you hatch and tend to many Dinosaurs, upgrade your town and Dinosaur pens all while bettering your relationship with the residents and customising your personal spaces.
Mom Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with This & Cats.
Manage the busy daily life of a caring mother in Mom Life Simulator. Take care of your children, cook meals, clean the house, look after your dog, and find time for your own hobbies while balancing family responsibilities and time management.
Office Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for This & Cats fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
Ready to climb the career ladder? In Office Simulator, start as an intern and rise through the corporate ranks. Gain experience, earn promotions, and when the time comes, launch your own company to begin a new business adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below This & Cats at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with This & Cats.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
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 ~50% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with This & Cats.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie with This & Cats.
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 ~70% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with This & Cats.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under This & Cats on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with This & Cats.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 This & Cats.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This & Cats.
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 This & Cats.
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 with This & Cats.
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 and Simulation with This & Cats.
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 This & Cats.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with This & Cats.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with This & Cats.
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 This & Cats
- How much does This & Cats cost?
- This & Cats is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to This & Cats?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside This & Cats are Shelves and Sorcery: Tidy Up the Enchanted Shop, Sunrise Story, Store It!.
- Who developed This & Cats?
- This & Cats was developed by Ryan Stephen.
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