Games like catfish
If catfish is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mahjong House: Challenge All Achievements, Up Cards and Soul Monsters: The Machine Kingdom and the Lich Queen — 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 catfish: Fish up adorable enchanted fish, travel with lovable pets, and set off on cozy roguelike adventures filled with gentle surprises. Meet quirky visitors, receive blessings from gods, shape your build, and grow stronger through each warm and whimsical new journey.
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Steam players who put hours into catfish 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.
Mahjong House: Challenge All Achievements
WHY THIS
Top pick for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with catfish.
This is a single-player Japanese Mahjong game that supports 2-player, 3-player, and 4-player battle modes~
Up Cards
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with catfish.
UP CARDS is a light roguelike card game. In this exciting journey, you need to control the card situation, play the best combinations, stack additional effects to turn the tide, choose your permanent rewards, and reach new heights through different strategic builds.
Soul Monsters: The Machine Kingdom and the Lich Queen
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with catfish.
A story-driven roguelike deckbuilder set in the war between the Machine Kingdom and the Lich Queen. Build your deck, gather relics, and battle through 75 stages to uncover the truth binding four intertwined destinies.
Cardborne
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with catfish.
A grim single-player card roguelike where every draw decides your fate. Fight, heal, or fall to the suits that once ruled the world.
Set a Watch: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with catfish.
Assemble your party to survive in this dice-management game! Master steel and magic: roll dice and next use them to attack directly or for powerful abilities. Scout, light a fire, use ancient runes or equip perks to prepare before battle. Use tactics to fight monsters and Unhallowed. Set a watch!
Specter: The Battle of the Mind
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with catfish.
Engage in strategic, memory-based combat, overcome exciting challenges, and dive into a story full of mysteries and twists!
Last Spell Book
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with catfish.
Last Spell Book is a Rogue Lite Deck builder strategy game where the randomness becomes less with each run as you learn routes, event outcomes and most importantly, spells.
Blacktower
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for catfish fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with catfish.
Blacktower is a roguelike mini-RPG loosely based on Blackjack. Recruit your party, gather your strength and push your luck to conquer the monstrous denizens of the tower.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below catfish at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with catfish.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with catfish.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with catfish.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with catfish.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with catfish.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with catfish.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Indie with catfish.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under catfish on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with catfish.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 catfish.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with catfish.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with catfish.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with catfish.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Casual with catfish.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 catfish.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with catfish.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about catfish
- How much does catfish cost?
- catfish is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to catfish?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside catfish are Mahjong House: Challenge All Achievements, Up Cards, Soul Monsters: The Machine Kingdom and the Lich Queen.
- Who developed catfish?
- catfish was developed by fjyaosun.
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 catfish.
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