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Games like Paper Paws

If Paper Paws is your kind of game, the closest matches are Neko Eki Stamp, Cardstock City and Catopia — 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.

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About Paper Paws: Paper Paws — a cozy card collecting game about kittens! Scratch, clean, laminate and collect all the cats in your album. Can you collect them all?

2026IndieSimulationCasualWindowsby AIT Games
Paper Paws — Steam game cover

Players who liked Paper Paws also play

Steam players who put hours into Paper Paws 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. Neko Eki Stamp

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    Revive your train station in rural Japan, one stamp at a time. You are Station Master Tama, a calico cat with a mission: to save the train station that's become your home from closure. Stamp away to raise passengers' satisfaction and encourage humans to come to your train station and make it thrive!

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Cardstock City

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    The cozy trading card life sim where every paycheck becomes another booster pack. Work odd jobs, rip packs, chase rare pulls, trade with locals, run your own card shop, and battle starting on folding tables at card expo tournaments to earn a World Championship invite.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Catopia

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    A desktop pet sim where a pixel cat lives on your wallpaper while you work. Choose one of five cats — Cheese, Cloud, Pumpkin, Cotton, or Oreo. Feed, play, wash, and pet to build affection. Neglect its health and it falls ill; neglect its heart and it walks away for good.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  4. Sweet Street

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    A quiet Edwardian front garden, and whoever calls at it. Put things out, learn what each animal likes, and wait. Cats come over the fence, the year turns in fortnights, and nothing is ever lost. The garden carries on while you are away.

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. Desktop Pet: Idle Cats Cozy Chaotic Companions for your screen

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    Adopt cozy cats for your desktop. Watch them nap, wander, climb, chase toys, earn Hearts, and cause tiny chaos while you work or relax.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. That's Not My Bowl

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    Cook homemade cat food and serve it to the pickiest customers on Earth. Learn every breed's tastes as you feed your way across the world's cities, one perfect bowl at a time. A cozy cooking and collection game.

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  7. Loafstead

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    Your desktop has a cat problem. Your browser, your spreadsheet, your inbox. It has no idea those are apps. It just sees surfaces to ignore you from. Leave it running and see who shows up when you come back.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  8. Social Hook

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Paper Paws fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Paper Paws.

    Catch powerful monster cards with your fishing rod and battle against other players in exciting duels.

    2026IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. 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 Paper Paws.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Paper Paws.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Paws.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Paper Paws

What games are most similar to Paper Paws?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Paws are Neko Eki Stamp, Cardstock City, Catopia.
Who developed Paper Paws?
Paper Paws was developed by AIT Games.

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 Paper Paws.

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