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Games like The Regular: Same Dog Every Time

If The Regular: Same Dog Every Time is your kind of game, the closest matches are MALATANG MASTER - Street Food Simulator, Tiny Ramen Shop and Prosa Café — 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 The Regular: Same Dog Every Time: Run a cozy hot dog cart, serve charming customers, restock your stand, and end each shift a little better than the last in a relaxing food-making game with a strange little secret simmering under the surface.

2026SimulationCasualWindowsby Blackscale Studios
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Steam players who put hours into The Regular: Same Dog Every Time 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. MALATANG MASTER - Street Food Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    Run a cozy neighborhood malatang shop. Pick, weigh, slice and cook each bowl yourself, balance broth and heat, and serve every customer exactly what they like. Restock, price, survive the rush and grow your shop with 16 recipes to unlock. Play solo or team up with up to 4 players in LAN co-op.

    2027SimulationCasualSteam ↗
  2. Tiny Ramen Shop

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    Run your own Tiny Ramen Shop! It's tiny, yes, but customers are already lining up to try your delicious ramen. Prepare food, stock your warehouse with fresh ingredients, upgrade and decorate your establishment. Hungry customers are waiting for their favorite ramen chef!

    IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Prosa Café

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    Discover the flavours of the Brazilian countryside in this cozy cooking game! Combine ingredients to serve customers, unlock recipes and decorate your café, all while uncovering stories from the people of this peculiar small town. Will you be remarkable enough to become part of the local folklore?

    CasualSteam ↗
  4. Ramen Haven

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    Turn a humble ramen cart into the shop of your dreams in this cozy cooking and management game. Prepare delicious ramen, delight customers, unlock new recipes, upgrade and decorate your space, and grow your small business into a thriving restaurant.

    2026IndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Gas Station Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    A gas station and convenience store tycoon. Stock shelves, pump fuel, and ring up sales. Grow from a humble roadside stall by pricing stock and unlocking licenses to upgrade your shop. Set out every product by hand, tidy up what customers leave behind, and grow a thriving business.

    2026IndieSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  6. Let It Chill

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    Manage a tiny ice cream business, organize and upgrade your inventory, discover favorite flavors of each new location, buy new ice-cream carts.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Shelves and Sorcery: Tidy Up the Enchanted Shop

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    Restore order to three ransacked fantasy shops! Organize thousands of items, master helpful sorceries and enchantments, relax at your own pace, race the global leaderboards, and unlock new ways to play. Every item has a shelf. Can you find them all?

    2026IndieSimulationCasual4.79 USDSteam ↗
  8. Chinese Street Food Legend

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Regular: Same Dog Every Time fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    A heartfelt game where you run a night market stall, cooking kaolengmian (grilled cold noodles). Customers come and go, stopping by to chat and share bits of their lives, joys, frustrations, and everyday struggles. At this little stall, you cook, listen, and keep living an ordinary person’s life.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual3.59 USDSteam ↗

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  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    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 ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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 ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Regular: Same Dog Every Time

What games are most similar to The Regular: Same Dog Every Time?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Regular: Same Dog Every Time are MALATANG MASTER - Street Food Simulator, Tiny Ramen Shop, Prosa Café.
Who developed The Regular: Same Dog Every Time?
The Regular: Same Dog Every Time was developed by Blackscale Studios.

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 The Regular: Same Dog Every Time.

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