Games like Pico Pals
If Pico Pals is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stratagem Lost, Alchemic Beasts and Tinymon RPG — 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 Pico Pals: Collect, level up, and battle Pico Pals as you earn star badges to progress through your monster training adventure.
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Steam players who put hours into Pico Pals 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.
Stratagem Lost
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Top pick for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
Brave perilous turn-based strategy encounters and uncover dark conspiracies in a broken world. Draft your team of unique characters and have them learn skills from each other. Welcome to hard times—can you recover what's been lost?
Alchemic Beasts
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Second-strongest match for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
A monster-taming RPG where the social chemistry between your beasts shape how they bond, battle, and build. Join Zieg and Mioni to reclaim the wild paradise of Mizu, tame powerful monsters, and restore the resort to its former glory.
Tinymon RPG
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Third-strongest match for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Pico Pals.
Dive into an isekai world full of tiny monsters ready to battle, learn a new language on the way, and explore the land of Tinymon! A refreshing but retro take on the monster-taming genre.
Neuralnx
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Ranked #4 for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
The Dark Souls of monster taming. Brutally difficult. Face over 300 unique creatures designed to wipe your team. Challenge 78 brutal boss fights that can wall you for days. Rage-inducing. Not for everyone.
Spectrakin
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Ranked #5 for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
Catch and train monsters, master turn-based combat, and grow a small settlement into a thriving town! Explore a vast world filled with secrets, memorable characters, and an ancient mystery waiting to be solved. Spectrakin is a modern love letter to classic monster-taming games.
Palm Sugar: A Village Story
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Ranked #6 for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
Ah, young love! Seenu, our awkward hero, courts his sweetheart in the quaint village of Bellampakam. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows! The village suffocates under a ruthless drug cartel. Step into Palm Sugar, where romance may steal the spotlight, but the shadows tell the real story.
Caramellia
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Ranked #7 for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
Explore a pastel kawaii world and catch 100+ Dulcimals: sweet creatures that evolve and fuse together. Master 12 Flavors in turn-based battles, raise your team, and challenge other trainers online. A cozy creature-collecting RPG.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition
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Ranked #8 for Pico Pals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Pico Pals.
With engaging storylines, classic turn-based battles, and tons of Digimon to collect, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition delivers everything fans loved about Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pico Pals.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Pico Pals.
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!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pico Pals.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pico Pals.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Pico Pals.
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.
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More from Ryan Nein
Other recommendable Steam games by Ryan Nein, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hermit Home Designer
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Another title from Ryan Nein, the studio behind Pico Pals.
Yamasen-Chan is a hikikomori who lives in isolation and never leaves her home. Will you help her make a comfy home in this hikikomori themed visual novel designing game?
(Neg)Entropic Wandering
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Another title from Ryan Nein, the studio behind Pico Pals. Shares Indie with Pico Pals.
(Neg)Entropic Wandering is a short visual novel for Insomniacs. Wander through the depths of space to empty your mind and finally get some sleep.
Yamasen-Chan's Hermit Home Designer+
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Another title from Ryan Nein, the studio behind Pico Pals.
Yamasen-Chan is a shy hermit who never leaves her home. Will you help her create cozy rooms in this visual novel with home-design gameplay?
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Frequently asked about Pico Pals
- What games are most similar to Pico Pals?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pico Pals are Stratagem Lost, Alchemic Beasts, Tinymon RPG.
- Who developed Pico Pals?
- Pico Pals was developed by Ryan Nein.
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 Pico Pals.
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