Games like Catch the Octopus
If Catch the Octopus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hide and Moo!, I'm Just a Wall and Who Am I Next? : Animals — 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 Catch the Octopus: Catch the Octopus is an online multiplayer hide-and-seek game for 2 to 24 players. Transform into objects as an Octopus to fool the Seeker and escape, or become the Seeker and hunt down hidden Octopuses. Use unique abilities to stun, chase, and escape in unpredictable rounds with your friends!
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Steam players who put hours into Catch the Octopus 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.
Hide and Moo!
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Top pick for Catch the Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Catch the Octopus.
Somewhere in this field, someone is doing their best animal impression. It’s you. Record your own animal sound, then try to match it under pressure while hunters close in. A chaotic voice-mimicry hide-and-seek party game with proximity chat.
I'm Just a Wall
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Second-strongest match for Catch the Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Catch the Octopus.
I'm Just a Wall is a multiplayer prop hunt game where up to 30 players become cats to hide and seek. Morph into cacti, candy or trees to hide across the island, or play as the seeker and spot the scenery that looks just slightly off.
Who Am I Next? : Animals
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Third-strongest match for Catch the Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Catch the Octopus.
Who Am I Next? : Animals is a fast-paced, multiplayer brawler where you must survive ever-changing chaos. Clear your animal's missions and claim the #1 spot!
MOGUMOGU! POOP BATTLE
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Ranked #4 for Catch the Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Catch the Octopus.
Control a 🥕, gather 🐰, and feed them to 🐺 with your teammate! Eaten 🐰 turn into 💩 and get SHOOT at the enemy! 2v2 online battle for up to 4 players. Play solo or with friends!
Goat Together
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Ranked #6 for Catch the Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Catch the Octopus.
Goat Together is a chaotic party game for 2-6 players where you control clumsy, goofy goats. Climb, race and headbutt your friends to be the GOAT... Survive the madness, and prove you're the true King of the Mountain!
Come Out Guys
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Ranked #7 for Catch the Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Catch the Octopus.
Get ready for a chaotic chase for 2-8 players! Experience high tension FPS Parkour Hide and Seek with tiny characters in a giant environment. Climb, jump, hide, and shoot to surprise your friends. Escaping and chasing have never been this exciting!
Only Straight Bros
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Ranked #8 for Catch the Octopus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Catch the Octopus.
Dive into Only Straight Bros, a hilarious 2-4 player multiplayer party game. Blend into the crowd, mimic your friends, and outsmart the deadly predator-bro in an absurd cruise ship survival showdown!
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 Catch the Octopus.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Catch the Octopus.
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 Catch the Octopus.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Catch the Octopus.
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 Casual with Catch the Octopus.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Catch the Octopus.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Catch the Octopus.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about Catch the Octopus
- Does Catch the Octopus have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Catch the Octopus supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Catch the Octopus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Catch the Octopus are Hide and Moo!, I'm Just a Wall, Who Am I Next? : Animals.
- Who developed Catch the Octopus?
- Catch the Octopus was developed by MinE 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 Catch the Octopus.
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