Games like Yokai Parade
If Yokai Parade is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chill & Reel, Little Ghosties and Nano Reef — 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 Yokai Parade: A resident idle game where a yokai parade ambles along the bottom of your screen. Fill your codex while you work; the koban they gather unlock rarer, stranger spirits... maybe. Now and then, a festival lights up the night market. Care to let a habit-forming yokai world walk across your PC?
Players who liked Yokai Parade also play
Steam players who put hours into Yokai Parade 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.
Chill & Reel
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Top pick for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Yokai Parade.
A cozy idle fishing game where you play as an adorable alligator angler. Designed to run in the corner of your screen, it's the perfect companion for work or study—featuring rich animations that make every moment feel like watching a charming short film.
Little Ghosties
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Yokai Parade.
Little Ghosties is a cozy 2D idle desktop companion game where adorable ghosts live inside a terrarium on your desktop. Hatch, raise, and collect unique ghosts as they grow from eggs into fully grown adult ghosts.
Nano Reef
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Yokai Parade.
Turn every keystroke into a thriving ocean! Nano Reef is a cozy companion game where typing or clicking earns gold—without interrupting your work. Spend gold to buy marine fish, vibrant corals, and decorations, or feed your fish to interact. Build your unique, relaxing desktop aquarium!
HoloCozy
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Ranked #4 for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Yokai Parade.
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.
Tiny Capsule Collector
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Ranked #5 for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Yokai Parade.
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.
Keep the Corpsy Rollin'
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Ranked #6 for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Yokai Parade.
A cute and quirky desktop companion that keeps rollin' with every keystroke, click, and mouse movement. Improve its abilities, collect runes, and discover items to customize your Corpsy and make it truly your own.
Hamster Time
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Ranked #7 for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Yokai Parade.
Hamster Time is a collectible desktop companion game that reacts to your activity. Manage your time with a focus timer, keep track of your to-do list, and make the most of your day alongside your adorable hamsters.
Lepidarium
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Ranked #8 for Yokai Parade fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Yokai Parade.
Relax and collect hundreds of unique butterflies and moths in this cozy idle game. Watch caterpillars transform from larva to chrysalis to winged beauty, customize lush greenhouses, and discover rare species from monarchs to atlas moths.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Yokai Parade.
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 Yokai Parade.
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 Yokai Parade.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Yokai Parade.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Yokai Parade.
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 Yokai Parade.
‘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 Simulation with Yokai Parade.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Yokai Parade.
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!
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Frequently asked about Yokai Parade
- What games are most similar to Yokai Parade?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Yokai Parade are Chill & Reel, Little Ghosties, Nano Reef.
- Who developed Yokai Parade?
- Yokai Parade was developed by CITTA FOX.
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 Yokai Parade.
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