Games like Animal Simulator
If Animal Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are The WILDS, Cat Simulator: Meow and Avalom: Ancestral Heroes — 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 Animal Simulator: Animal Simulator is an open world game where humans and animals meet. Choose one of the many diverse animals and try to survive together with your pack and your new human friend.
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The WILDS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Animal Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Animal Simulator.
Become iconic animals and fight for survival in the The WILDS. Finding food, water, and shelter will be the easy part, protecting your family from hungry predators and a harsh environment will separate the weak from the strong. Welcome to a uniquely immersive animal experience...
Cat Simulator: Meow
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Animal Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Animal Simulator.
To be a cat, to be a free cat.
Avalom: Ancestral Heroes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Animal Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Animal Simulator.
Based on the RPG book, set in a huge open world, Avalom: Ancestral Heroes presents a rewarding action combat experience.
Badiya: Desert Survival
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Animal Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Simulator.
Badiya is a Sandbox Survival RPG set in the WWI era desert lands. Badiya challenges you to brave the sands, take part in wars, ply the spice routes, or hunt for treasure as you strive to fulfill your ambitions.
Cat Quest II
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Animal Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Simulator.
Open-world action-RPG in a fantasy realm of cats and dogs. Sequel to the award-winning original, CAT QUEST II lets you play solo or with a friend, as both a cat and dog! Quest in a world filled with magic, defeat monsters and collect loot in a catventure like never before!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Animal Simulator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Animal Simulator.
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 ~67% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Simulator.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action with Animal Simulator.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Simulator.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action with Animal Simulator.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Animal Simulator.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Animal Simulator.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Animal Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Animal Simulator.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Simulator.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Animal Simulator.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Animal Simulator.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Simulator.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Animal Simulator.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Animal Simulator.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
DOGWALK
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Animal Simulator.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Animal Simulator.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Animal Simulator
- How much does Animal Simulator cost?
- Animal Simulator is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Animal Simulator have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Animal Simulator supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Animal Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Animal Simulator are The WILDS, Cat Simulator: Meow, Avalom: Ancestral Heroes.
- Who developed Animal Simulator?
- Animal Simulator was developed by Imperian Online - Core.
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 Animal Simulator.
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