Games like Cattails: Wildwood Story
If Cattails: Wildwood Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cattails | Become a Cat!, Forest Spirit and Hammer & Harvest: Dwarven Roots — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its foraging and hunting mechanics, chill and cozy. 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 →Cattails: Wildwood Story is a 2023 indie life sim RPG developed by Falcon Development, available for $19.99 USD and verified on Steam Deck. Players describe the experience as chill, cozy, and relaxing, with a whimsical tone throughout. The game features character customization allowing players to design their cat's coat and appearance, alongside core mechanics including colony management, festival planning, foraging, mining, and follower AI. Reviewers highlight the ability to manage a growing colony through festivals and marriages, pursue romance with any NPC cat and raise kittens, and participate in activities like turtle racing. The game holds a 98% positive rating from over 1,300 Steam reviews.
About Cattails: Wildwood Story: Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
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Cattails | Become a Cat!
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Shares a chill mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Top pick for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Become a cat! Cattails is a unique animal simulation RPG. Hunt for food, fight invading cats, explore to gather herbs, and socialize with other cats in an expansive open world. Get married and raise a family of kittens, befriend your neighbors, and learn to live in the dangerous wilderness!
Forest Spirit
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Shares a cozy mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Second-strongest match for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Tired of office life, you go to live in nature. In this new life, you have to build, craft, farm, fight and interact with the locals.
Hammer & Harvest: Dwarven Roots
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Third-strongest match for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
A dwarf farm sim! The days of dragons'-fire have ended, and now the Dwarf King has commissioned you to reclaim the ancient halls. Grow crops, harvest crystals, mine ores, and craft works of awe & wonder. Enrich your home beneath the mountains before the Dwarf King returns to judge your progress...
Moonlight In Garland
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Shares a chill mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Ranked #4 for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
City life is calling, and you're gonna love it here!* Move to a new apartment in the bustling city. Make friends, find work, and decorate your new home - all while working with the community to improve your neighbourhood. Welcome to Garland! *Apartment quality may vary, loving it not guaranteed.
World's Dawn
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Shares a cozy mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Ranked #5 for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Bring life back to a sleepy seaside village by building friendships, finding love, harvesting crops, tending livestock, competing in festivals, fishing, mining, discovering magical secrets and more!
Trappist
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Shares colony management and a chill mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Ranked #6 for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
My Time at Sandrock
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Shares a cozy mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Ranked #7 for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town
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Shares character customization and a cozy mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Ranked #8 for Cattails: Wildwood Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Welcome to Olive Town, a peaceful community established by your trailblazing grandfather and his friends. Now that you've taken over his farm, it's your job to carry on his legacy. Plant crops, raise animals, build relationships, and get to know the residents of your new home!
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Stardew Valley
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Shares a cozy mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
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Cat Warrior
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Cat Warroir is an action-platformer of retro and cute style about a cat knight on his way to recapture his stolen treasure. Deep into the dangerous fantasy world,defeat the challenging big boss with your slash, dash, jump, walljump and other skills to find the treasure back!
The Sims™ 4
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Reviewers of Cattails: Wildwood Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
The Sims™ Legacy Collection
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Shares character customization and a cozy mood with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Reviewers of Cattails: Wildwood Story cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cattails: Wildwood Story at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Cattails: Wildwood Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Cattails: Wildwood Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Cattails: Wildwood Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Cattails: Wildwood Story on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Cattails: Wildwood Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
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 ~60% under Cattails: Wildwood Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
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?
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cattails: Wildwood Story.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Frequently asked about Cattails: Wildwood Story
- Is Cattails: Wildwood Story verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Cattails: Wildwood Story 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 Cattails: Wildwood Story cost?
- Cattails: Wildwood Story is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cattails: Wildwood Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cattails: Wildwood Story are Cattails | Become a Cat!, Forest Spirit, Hammer & Harvest: Dwarven Roots.
- Who developed Cattails: Wildwood Story?
- Cattails: Wildwood Story was developed by Falcon Development.
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