Games like Catrium
If Catrium is your kind of game, the closest matches are Desktop Cat Clicker, Space Catnips and Desktop Pet: DonEatFish — 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 Catrium: This idle anomaly management game is set in the bottom right corner of the screen and progresses at a leisurely pace. Grow and manage the mysterious cat-like substance "Catrium" at your leisure, earn money, and upgrade your lab.
Players who liked Catrium also play
Steam players who put hours into Catrium 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.
Desktop Cat Clicker
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Top pick for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Catrium.
What if a cozy desktop game met an idle clicker? In Desktop Cat Clicker, cats wander across your taskbar, earn points from every click as you work, play, or relax. Collect new cats to unlock unique bonuses and grow your peaceful cat empire over time.
Space Catnips
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
Space Catnips is an incremental game where you harvest catnips from alien planets and showcase them in your bar to attract a wide variety of space cats!
Desktop Pet: DonEatFish
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
A cozy cat on your desktop while you goof off. Idle fish, crack chests, dress up—turn your desk corner into a wholesome little nook. Come adopt an adorable kitty.
Catio Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
Catio Simulator is a casual incremental game in which you decorate a catio to attract cats. Pet your cats to get them ready for adoption, collect adoption fees, and upgrade your catio and petting ability!
Toast Cat: Scratch & Win
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
No matter what you're up to, Toast Cat bounces along with you. Once it's earned enough affection, it'll pull out a scratch card just for you. No need to watch it constantly — scratch one whenever you have a free moment and unwind a little.
Till & Toast
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Catrium.
In this cozy organizing and management simulator, sort 3,600 freshly baked breads and pastries onto the correct shelves, open your bakery for business, earn coins, upgrade convenience abilities, and unlock adorable food-themed assistants and decorations to build your own bakery.
Fluffy Kitchen Saga
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
《Fluffy Kitchen Saga》A restaurant simulation game located at the bottom of your computer screen, where both staff and customers are fluffy little animals! They’ll keep you company while you work/study. Let’s run a restaurant full of fluffiness!
Sprout's Meadow
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Ranked #8 for Catrium fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
Manage a team of adorable Sproutlings in this cozy farming adventure! Assign tasks, automate chores, and turn forgotten land into a lively home. Grow crops, raise animals, and craft goods, then take to the skies in your hot air balloon to trade. Watch your little farm come alive!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Catrium.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
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?
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 Catrium.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Catrium.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Catrium.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Catrium
- What games are most similar to Catrium?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Catrium are Desktop Cat Clicker, Space Catnips, Desktop Pet: DonEatFish.
- Who developed Catrium?
- Catrium was developed by ilili_world.
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 Catrium.
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