Games like Ordinary People
If Ordinary People is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tiny Street: Taskbar Tycoon, HoloCozy and PicoCat — 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 Ordinary People: Ordinary People is a game about building a cozy little town at the bottom of your screen, keeping you company while you work or study. As you build your town, Ordinary People will begin to move in, interacting with one another in some not-so-Ordinary ways.
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Steam players who put hours into Ordinary People 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.
Tiny Street: Taskbar Tycoon
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Top pick for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ordinary People.
Tiny Street: Taskbar Tycoon is a taskbar idle game where a tiny street sits right on the taskbar while you work, relax, or simply watch the people come and go. Passerbys will randomly shop in your colorful, hand-drawn stores, and slowly help grow your little economy.
HoloCozy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ordinary People.
HoloCozy is a cozy idle desktop companion where you can spend relaxing time with hololive talents in their rooms. Enjoy music and ambient sounds, keep your favorite characters close, and watch them grow at your own pace while you work, study, or unwind.
PicoCat
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ordinary People.
This is a cozy, relaxing idle game that can float anywhere on your screen. A group of adorable stray cats live on this island. Care for them and give them forever homes, so you can enjoy heart‑warming cat‑petting moments amid your busy daily life.
Taskbar Cat Club
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Ranked #4 for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Ordinary People.
Adopt a club of pixel cats that live on your desktop. They stroll along your taskbar, nap on your monitors, climb your windows, chase your cursor, and wander from screen to screen, always on top and never in your way.
AdorableCat
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Ranked #5 for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Ordinary People.
A cozy and relaxing desktop companion game filled with adorable cats. Welcome a variety of cats into your family, care for them, and enjoy everyday life together.
Tiny Capsule Collector
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Ranked #6 for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ordinary People.
Run a cozy capsule shop at the bottom of your screen while you work or study. Attract adorable animal customers, collect charming capsule toys, create & decorate a relaxing, ambient world. This idle sim brings you small moments of joy with cute companions making your desktop a place you’d rather be.
Butaro's Overtime Office
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Ranked #7 for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ordinary People.
A chill idle game about escaping the 9-to-5. Adopt Butaro, a burnt-out salaryman who lives anywhere on your desktop. Watch him slack off from his mind-numbing job, decorate his office, and upgrade his corporate skills while you work or relax. Will Butaro escape corporate burnout before you do?
Tama Pet
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Ranked #8 for Ordinary People fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ordinary People.
Raise your own desktop companion! Feed, decorate, collect cute accessories, open surprise packs, and watch your virtual pet grow while it keeps you company throughout the day.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ordinary People.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ordinary People.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ordinary People.
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 with Ordinary People.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ordinary People.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ordinary People.
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.
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 Ordinary People.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Ordinary People
- What games are most similar to Ordinary People?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ordinary People are Tiny Street: Taskbar Tycoon, HoloCozy, PicoCat.
- Who developed Ordinary People?
- Ordinary People was developed by Magic Cat 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 Ordinary People.
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