Games like The Cat Machine
If The Cat Machine is your kind of game, the closest matches are 时间之神的猫, Another Cat in Dungeons and Nino Maze LOFI II — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 The Cat Machine: The Future is Meow! The Cat Machine is a game of logic, and cats riding around on trains.As we are all aware, The Cat Machine is a giant contraption that maintains the stability of earth's orbit around the sun. A fun logical puzzler with over 50 levels, now you can build that machine too!
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时间之神的猫
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Use four-dimensional space-time thinking and time travel ability to eat the fish within the specified time and return to the original position, while avoiding the guards' pursuit.
Another Cat in Dungeons
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Another Cat in Dungeons is a sequence from A CAt in Dungeons. Save another cat from another dungeons going through turnable tabletops, finding the safest path to the goal. Use teleports, mechanisms and your brain in new puzzles carefully designed.
Nino Maze LOFI II
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Following Nino Maze LOFI line of cute graphics and LOFI music, we now bring Nino Maze Lofi II, a new adventure!
Bricky to Me
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Brick to Me puts you on a Puzzle Platform full of dynamically arranged rooms with a random path to the confrontation with “Space Mania”.
🌸 Lofi Mahjong 🌸
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Dive into a calm, cozy world with Lofi Mahjong. Enjoy classic Mahjong Solitaire enhanced by a lofi soundscape for maximum focus and minimum stress.
Cat way Domino
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Cat Machine.
Ranked #6 for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Find a new way to play Domino, helping a cat going trough different paths, finding the best domino pieces combination to keep the cat alive, in a relaxing ambience
Samurai Cat
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Samurai Cat is a puzzle game based on checkers where you control Mr. Jack, a remaining cat in a world conquered by mice. Use cheese to lure the mice to vantage positions and help Mr. Jack eliminate them all with just one movement.
Logicats
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Cat Machine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Logicats is a beginner-friendly programming game. Learn programming concepts through reading code in a fun and effective way. Perfect for classrooms or at home. Start your programming journey today!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Cat Machine at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
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 The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Cat Machine.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
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 The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
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 The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
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 ~67% under The Cat Machine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
In Sink: A Co-Op Escape Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cat Machine.
Play an early version of the first level for free! Work together to solve the puzzles and escape a desert island in this multiplayer co-op adventure. Success requires more than just you and your partner thinking alike - you'll have to communicate and stay In Sink to overcome the challenges ahead.
Chip's Challenge 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Cat Machine.
Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.
ABI-DOS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Cracking the Cryptic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
Curated Sudoku puzzles from YouTube's most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking the Cryptic!
MATH EXPRESSions
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
WORDLE for math fans. The perfect daily warm-up routine for your brain.
Game Of Puzzles: Animals
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cat Machine.
A puzzle game in which you have to assemble a single image from individual pieces.
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Frequently asked about The Cat Machine
- How much does The Cat Machine cost?
- The Cat Machine is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Cat Machine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cat Machine are 时间之神的猫, Another Cat in Dungeons, Nino Maze LOFI II.
- Who developed The Cat Machine?
- The Cat Machine was developed by Cranktrain.
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 The Cat Machine.
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