Games like Industrial Petting
If Industrial Petting is your kind of game, the closest matches are Constructed, Palworld and Time to Morp — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative factory automation matters, mass produce adorable pets and challenging. 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 Industrial Petting: Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
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Constructed
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Industrial Petting.
Top pick for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
Constructed is a factory building game, with a single goal... to automate EVERYTHING!!!
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Industrial Petting.
Second-strongest match for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Industrial Petting.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Time to Morp
WHY THIS
Shares multiplayer co op and a cozy mood with Industrial Petting.
Third-strongest match for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Industrial Petting.
Play with friends in a cozy base-building adventure! Take care of adorable creatures — Morps, explore, discover new species, grow crops, fish, build relationships with your crew, decorate your perfect home, and automate production along the way!
Faun Town
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Autonauts
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Industrial Petting.
Ranked #5 for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Research Story
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Industrial Petting.
Ranked #6 for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!
Havendock
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Industrial Petting.
Ranked #7 for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Lightyear Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Industrial Petting.
Ranked #8 for Industrial Petting fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Early Access with Industrial Petting.
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Industrial Petting at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Industrial Petting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Industrial Petting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Industrial Petting.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Industrial Petting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Industrial Petting on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Industrial Petting.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Industrial Petting on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Industrial Petting.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Industrial Petting.
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 Industrial Petting.
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?
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 Industrial Petting.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Industrial Petting.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
100 Asian Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Industrial Petting.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Industrial Petting.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Industrial Petting.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Industrial Petting.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Research Story
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Industrial Petting.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Industrial Petting.
Set out to discover and record plants and creatures for the Violet Archive. Grow crops, tame animals, and build the perfect farm! Forge friendships along the way as you begin your life as a researcher!
Lightyear Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Industrial Petting.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Early Access with Industrial Petting.
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Frequently asked about Industrial Petting
- Is Industrial Petting verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Industrial Petting is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Industrial Petting cost?
- Industrial Petting is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Industrial Petting have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Industrial Petting supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Industrial Petting?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Industrial Petting are Constructed, Palworld, Time to Morp.
- Who developed Industrial Petting?
- Industrial Petting was developed by Another Yeti.
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