Games like Dog
If Dog is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pawper: Desktop Pet, Rise & Pop! and Planet Doctor — 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 Dog: A tiny dog lives on your desktop. Take care of your loyal companion, play with it, decorate its little corner, and watch it grow through everyday moments. A relaxing pixel desktop pet game about companionship, warmth, and the simple joy of having a dog by your side.
Players who liked Dog also play
Steam players who put hours into Dog 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.
Pawper: Desktop Pet
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
A virtual pet that lives on your desktop, not in a window. Pet him, feed him and throw the ball while you work. Clean up his messes for coins, then spend them on toys, outfits and furniture. He grows in real time, ages forever and never dies.
Rise & Pop!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
Have you ever dreamed of tying balloons to little toys and watching them gently lift into the sky? Well, now you can! Unbox all kinds of balloons (hundreds of styles!), pick your favorite items—a radio, a suitcase, a piano, even a car?! —tie them down, send them floating...Ready to float away?
Planet Doctor
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dog.
Meet a small planet on your desktop. Your everyday keystrokes and mouse clicks generate energy to heal desolate world. Work or study while watching your planet slowly come back to life.
Sweet Street
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
A quiet Edwardian front garden, and whoever calls at it. Put things out, learn what each animal likes, and wait. Cats come over the fence, the year turns in fortnights, and nothing is ever lost. The garden carries on while you are away.
TomoBuddy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Dog.
A cozy pixel pet that lives on your desktop. It vibes while you type, eats the words you write at mealtime, plays minigames, levels up, evolves, and collects little treasures. Feed it, clean it, love it, or neglect it and face the wrath of your pixelated digital dependent.
Good Boy Heaven
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Dog.
Run a cozy dog shelter in heaven, alone or with friends. Sort toys off the daily train and earn paw points for tools and decorations. Use your lighthouse to reunite the good boys who were loved, and find a loving home for the ones who never had one.
Hamster Talk
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Dog.
Raise hamsters on your screen while using your computer. Gaming, homework, or work—adorable hamsters are with you every moment. 《Hamster Talk》 is an idle social game that coexists on your screen without interruption. Interact with reactive hamsters, chat worldwide, and grow your own little town!
Animal Cozy Corner Shop
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dog fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
Animal Cozy Corner Shop is a warm desktop idle shop game that moves along with real-world time. Open a tiny animal convenience store in the corner of your screen, stock products, welcome quiet animal visitors, earn income, and unlock more items, furniture, and cute guests.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dog at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dog on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dog.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dog on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dog.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dog on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dog.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dog on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dog.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dog on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dog on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dog on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dog.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dog.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dog.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dog.
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 Dog.
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 Dog.
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 Dog.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dog
- How much does Dog cost?
- Dog is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dog?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dog are Pawper: Desktop Pet, Rise & Pop!, Planet Doctor.
- Who developed Dog?
- Dog was developed by AKI Studio.
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 Dog.
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