Games like Animal
If Animal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Animal Simulator, Cat Life Simulator and Just A Watermelon — 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 Animal: Animal is a unique open-world survival game. Choose one of the animals and survive in the open world alongside your group.

Players who liked Animal also play
Steam players who put hours into Animal 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.
Animal Simulator
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Top pick for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
Animal Simulator is an open world game where humans and animals meet. Choose one of the many diverse animals and try to survive together with your pack and your new human friend.
Cat Life Simulator
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Second-strongest match for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
Cat Life Simulator is a realistic simulation game that allows you to see the world through the eyes of a cat. Explore the world, interact with the environment, and create your own cat's story. Your adventure begins in a domestic setting, but over time, you will discover many other places.
Just A Watermelon
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Third-strongest match for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
Put aside all the responsibilities, bills, and stress that come with being human. You’re just a watermelon.
Virtual Hunter
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Ranked #4 for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Animal.
Virtual Hunter brings realistic hunting to virtual reality. Pack your gear and put your hunting skills and tactics to the test in the open wilderness.
Tales Beyond The Tomb - White Silence
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Ranked #5 for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
Years after a tragic expedition, investigator Aleksei Morozov returns to the frozen mountains to uncover the truth. But some trails should never be followed...
Dead Event
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
Dead Event is a indie RPG survival game in which the player grows up as a creature. The creature will grow bigger overtime and with interactions in-game also lose some growth on death. Form a colony or hunt alone, become part of a player-created ecosystem. Survive, eat or be eaten...
Green Hell VR
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Ranked #7 for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death
Workshop Simulator
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Ranked #8 for Animal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Animal.
Workshop Simulator allows you to repair and refurbish items using a range of restoration mechanics such as disassembling, cleaning, sanding and painting. The accompanying story will immerse you in the nostalgia of tinkering with your grandfather.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Animal.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Animal.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Animal.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Animal.
‘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 Adventure with Animal.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Animal.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Animal
- Does Animal have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Animal supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Animal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Animal are Animal Simulator, Cat Life Simulator, Just A Watermelon.
- Who developed Animal?
- Animal was developed by Animal Master.
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 Animal.
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