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Games like Anxiety Puppy

If Anxiety Puppy is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Adventures of Bunny and Pig, Russpuppy Kid Books and Open Spaces SE — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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.

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About Anxiety Puppy: Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.

2025IndieAdventureSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby 小狗工作室
Anxiety Puppy — Steam game cover
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Anxiety personified as a loyal puppy companionAnxiety reframed as a companionColor shifts mirror emotional statesAtmosphericContemplativeCozy

Players who liked Anxiety Puppy also play

Steam players who put hours into Anxiety Puppy 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.

  1. The Adventures of Bunny and Pig

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    It's a short, text-based interactive book with a psychological theme.▶TRIGGER WARNING◀ Contains childhood trauma, suicidal thoughts, and emotional abuse, but ultimately conveys hope and growth.

    2025IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Russpuppy Kid Books

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Anxiety Puppy.

    Your child will explore interactive stories, enjoy engaging reading games, and even bring their own book to life. Foster creativity, vocabulary, and a love for learning. Encourage the budding reader and writer in your young one. Experience the thrill of learning!

    2023AdventureSimulationCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Open Spaces SE

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.

    2023IndieAdventure8.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. A Lozenge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    “A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Saoirse

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    Eight people are trapped in an abandoned neurotech facility. The only hope for escape is by surviving deathgames based on scans of each other's minds.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  6. Help Me!

    WHY THIS

    Shares a poignant mood with Anxiety Puppy.

    Ranked #6 for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    Become a psychiatrist, talk, counsel, and treat your patients. The mini-games and dialogues will change, depending on your choices.. Hurry! Your patients await you in Help Me!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Insomnia: Theater in the Head

    WHY THIS

    Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Anxiety Puppy.

    Ranked #8 for Anxiety Puppy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    Hickory dickory dock. The city's deep in sleep. The clock's ticking. The sheep's bouncing. Hickory dickory dock. The girl tosses again, only with more things swarming into her head... In this Point & Click puzzle game "Insomnia", the show in the head is rolling on again. Alas, any sleep tonight...

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anxiety Puppy at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Anxiety Puppy.

    Priced ~70% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Anxiety Puppy.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Anxiety Puppy.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Anxiety Puppy.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anxiety Puppy.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Anxiety Puppy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Anxiety Puppy.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Anxiety Puppy.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anxiety Puppy.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anxiety Puppy.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Anxiety Puppy.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Anxiety Puppy.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anxiety Puppy.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Anxiety Puppy

Does Anxiety Puppy run on Steam Deck?
Anxiety Puppy is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Anxiety Puppy cost?
Anxiety Puppy is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Anxiety Puppy?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anxiety Puppy are The Adventures of Bunny and Pig, Russpuppy Kid Books, Open Spaces SE.
Who developed Anxiety Puppy?
Anxiety Puppy was developed by 小狗工作室 and published by Erabit.

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 Anxiety Puppy.

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