Games Like Cattails: Wildwood Story

You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?

Why similar: Wholesome 34.5% ★, Cats 31.8%, Cozy 17.3%, Cute 7.6%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the playful, curious nature of being a cat while exploring a vibrant city.

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Farming Sim 16.1%, City Builder 13.2%, Cats 11.9%, Life Sim 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on managing a town of cats, mirroring the community-building aspects of your seed game.

Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!

Why similar: Farming Sim 31.9%, Life Sim 19.3%, Romance 13.1%, RPG 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, high-quality life-sim that emphasizes character relationships and cozy farming in a magical setting.

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

Why similar: Wholesome 23.8% ★, Cats 18.6%, Cozy 15.9%, Life Sim 14.9%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim allows you to run a cozy cafe while interacting with local cats and townsfolk.

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Farming Sim 38%, Life Sim 23.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Building 7.6%, RPG 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive farming and life-sim experience that shares the same community-building and relationship-focused gameplay.

Build your farm and relationships with townsfolk, or forge ahead on a quest of magic, monsters, and dragons. Level up through a skill tree in 8 person multiplayer, or adventure solo!

Why similar: Farming Sim 33%, Life Sim 18.3%, Mining 15.9% ★, Character Customization 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-themed life-sim that mirrors the RPG combat and exploration elements found in Wildwood Story.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.5%, Life Sim 15.5%, Cozy 11.1%, Romance 10.5%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A community-focused farming sim that emphasizes working together to build a thriving prehistoric village.

Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!

Why similar: Cats 32.7%, Life Sim 16.4%, Character Customization 12.5%, Cute 9.8%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A whimsical, wholesome life-sim where you manage a cat cafe and interact with various animals in a magical world.

Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

Why similar: Farming Sim 34.5%, Life Sim 21.3%, Mining 12.5% ★, Character Customization 8.5%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modern, polished farming and life-sim that excels in character interaction and environmental exploration.

Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

Why similar: Farming Sim 45.3%, Character Customization 16.9%, RPG 10.6%, Cute 10%, Relaxing 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines farming and life-sim mechanics with the collection and training of adorable creatures.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Life Sim 17.8%, City Builder 17.1%, Farming Sim 17%, Building 8.5%, Romance 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, town-building life-sim that focuses on building relationships and customizing your environment.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Wholesome 26% ★, Life Sim 17.1%, Cozy 15.3%, Character Customization 9.4%, Colorful 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim that blends crafting and gathering with RPG-style combat and community relationship building.

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.6%, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Cozy 18.8%, Life Sim 18.4%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, generation-spanning farming sim that captures the relaxing, small-town feel of Wildwood Story.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Cute 53.2%, Colorful 29%, Simulation 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a cozy, creature-focused loop of exploration and management that feels very similar in tone.

Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.

Why similar: Farming Sim 41.2%, Life Sim 18.6%, Character Customization 9.4%, Relaxing 9%, Cute 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on befriending and caring for dinosaurs, offering a unique creature-collection twist on the farming genre.

Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

Why similar: Cats 21.3%, Farming Sim 20%, Life Sim 13.8%, Cozy 12.6%, Building 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cute farming and exploration game featuring cat protagonists that emphasizes rebuilding a ruined world.

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.2%, Nature 16.9%, Building 14.6%, Cute 8.8%, Relaxing 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused life-sim where you play as a bear, offering a similar animal-centric perspective.

Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!

Why similar: Cats 18.6%, Life Sim 18.1%, Cozy 16%, City Builder 15.4%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management sim that focuses on building a cute, relaxing street with a focus on community happiness.

A farming adventure with a dash of magic. Play solo or up to a 4-player coop. By day, restore your quaint farm into a summer paradise. Explore, raise crops, care for animals and rebuild your home. At night inhabit various creatures through your dreams and bring enchantment to the valley.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.8%, Cats 17%, Life Sim 13.5%, Cozy 13.2%, Nature 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong emphasis on animal interaction and farming within a cozy, open-world adventure.

A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?

Why similar: Farming Sim 21%, Cats 18.5%, Life Sim 14.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Character Customization 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and town-building with a cast of anthropomorphic animal characters.

Welcome home, Hobbit! Live the cosy life of a Hobbit in the wonderfully serene landscape of the Shire. Discover, decorate, & share in this idyllic corner of Middle-earth. Join friendly Hobbits & familiar faces awaiting your arrival in Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings™ Game.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27%, Life Sim 19.7%, Cozy 18%, Character Customization 12%, Nature 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, community-focused life-sim that emphasizes farming and building relationships in a peaceful environment.

You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.8%, Wholesome 25.4% ★, Building 12.8%, Cozy 12.4%, Cute 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to play as various animals while managing a shop, crafting, and exploring a sandbox world.

Sprout Valley is farming simulator game where you can step back from the busy life and grow the garden of your dreams. Captivating story, hand-crafted experience, cute graphics and many more!

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.4%, Life Sim 18.7%, Immersive Sim 9.2%, Building 8.4%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, relaxing farming sim that focuses on simple, satisfying loops of gathering and building.

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!

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.4%, Life Sim 16.9%, Cozy 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A farming and life-sim that focuses on documenting and studying local wildlife in a cozy setting.

Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.6%, Wholesome 19.5% ★, Life Sim 15%, Cozy 11.1%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A creative life-sim that offers deep customization and building tools for your town and home.

Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.

Why similar: RPG 53.3%, Colorful 46.7%

Why You'll Like It: A wholesome crafting and exploration game with a fairy-tale aesthetic that rewards curiosity and gathering.

Searching for a peaceful farm life, a fresh mountain breeze, and your own market stall? Look no further than the friendly community of Zephyr Town! Here you’ll grow crops and raise animals, get to know the locals, and sell your wares at the town's bazaar to restore it to its former glory.

Why similar: Farming Sim 17.4%, Wholesome 16.7% ★, Life Sim 12%, Cats 10.8%, Cozy 9.5%

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Farming Sim 32.8%, Life Sim 27.1%, Building 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Immersive Sim 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management and life-sim that offers a cozy, community-focused experience centered around running a tavern.

An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.

Why similar: Farming Sim 25.8%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Life Sim 15.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that brings farming and community building to an alien planet with a unique aesthetic.

Monster Harvest is a monster collecting and farming action RPG with a twist! Grow, collect and mutate your crops then take them into battle! Filled with places to discover and multiple ways to build your farm, get ready to craft, explore and battle across the vibrant world of Planimal Point.

Why similar: Farming Sim 41.7%, Building 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, RPG 9.4%, Relaxing 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends farming mechanics with creature collection and RPG combat in a colorful, pixel-art world.

Put down roots on your new farm in the peaceful town of Forgotten Valley. Bring life to the land by cultivating crops and raising animals, find love among the town's friendly folk, and make lasting memories with a family of your very own.

Why similar: Wholesome 20.3% ★, Life Sim 13%, Farming Sim 11.5%, Cozy 10.8%, Cats 8.4%

Stardew Valley meets Paper Mario in the coziest farming RPG you've never played. Romance 34+ characters, befriend 50+, raise adorable animals, and grow crops using real soil science. No forced bedtime. A handcrafted 2.5D world full of charm, secrets, and the dream life you've been waiting for.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.5%, Life Sim 19%, Mining 13.8% ★, Building 9.2%, RPG 6.2%

Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents.

Why similar: Wholesome 21.6% ★, Farming Sim 18.6%, Life Sim 11.4%, Cozy 11.4%, Romance 8.4%

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!

Why similar: Wholesome 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Farming Sim 17.4%, Cozy 11.1%, City Builder 10%

Become a cat! Cattails is a unique animal simulation RPG. Hunt for food, fight invading cats, explore to gather herbs, and socialize with other cats in an expansive open world. Get married and raise a family of kittens, befriend your neighbors, and learn to live in the dangerous wilderness!

Why similar: Cats 19%, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, Mining 13.1% ★, Life Sim 12.6%, Romance 8.4%

City life is calling, and you're gonna love it here!* Move to a new apartment in the bustling city. Make friends, find work, and decorate your new home - all while working with the community to improve your neighbourhood. Welcome to Garland! *Apartment quality may vary, loving it not guaranteed.

Why similar: Wholesome 21.7% ★, Life Sim 12.9%, Cozy 12%, Romance 9.4%, Character Customization 7.4%

Take part in healing after the Great Calamity. Tend your farm, complete quests for the villagers, and explore dungeons filled with challenge and treasure in this cozy, solo-developed farming sim. Build a new life in a recovering world with your fluffy Spellbook Companion.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.9%, Life Sim 13.8%, Wholesome 13.4% ★, Cozy 12.8%, Mining 9.7% ★

Start an epic world-building adventure with Nekokami! Architect beautiful, peaceful worlds in a far-future universe ruled by Cats. Befriend wondrous yet whimsical spirits of nature. Restore and manage extinct Humans. With Cats in charge, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Why similar: Cats 19.9%, Life Sim 14.9%, Building 12.4%, Cozy 12%, Nature 11.6%

Welcome to Olive Town, a peaceful community established by your trailblazing grandfather and his friends. Now that you've taken over his farm, it's your job to carry on his legacy. Plant crops, raise animals, build relationships, and get to know the residents of your new home!

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.9%, Life Sim 17.9%, Cats 12.9%, Romance 12.4%, Building 7.1%

Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.

Why similar: Farming Sim 30.7%, Cozy 24.6%, Life Sim 19%, Romance 9.1%, Simulation 7.1%

Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead, and use spells to explore the enchanted island of Azoria!

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.1%, Cozy 19.9%, Romance 12.2%, RPG 7.7%, Relaxing 6.3%

Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Farming Sim 21.6%, Life Sim 15.8%, Cozy 12%, Base Building 9.8%

Chonkers is a cozy and relaxing idle game. Adopt the cutest fur balls and watch them ramp up the chonk scale as you play with them. Find them a new family. They’ll pay A LOT for your hefty chonker! Complete your collection by finding all the breeds and the rarest space cats!

Why similar: Wholesome 26% ★, Cats 24.6%, Cozy 16.5%, Life Sim 11.4%, Cute 5.2%

Experience a cute, cozy witch life! After losing your job your life just took a whimsical turn. You're now on a quest to create a magical food forest and make it a home for all kinds of adorable creatures!

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.4%, Life Sim 19.1%, Character Customization 11.7%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Building 8.4%

Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Farming Sim 18.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Life Sim 13.4%, Simulation 9.4%

Experience the joys of life on the farm in this reimagining of a timeless STORY OF SEASONS classic!

Why similar: Farming Sim 50.2%, Life Sim 12%, Romance 9.2%, Simulation 9%, RPG 7.7%

The Firefly Village awaits! A bite-sized, streamlined farming sim that focuses on moments that matter, without wasting a single second of your time. Build a homestead, raise crops, tend to livestock, make friends, and enjoy a pocket of paradise where farming is a delight and friends plentiful.

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.4%, Cozy 15.9%, Mining 14.2% ★, Life Sim 13.6%, Nature 6.9%

Welcome to your Critter Café! Rescue and bond with adorable, fantasy critters in need of your help and build a new home together. Design and run your own café, care for your critters, uncover the secrets of mysterious portals, and create a wholesome café for all to enjoy!

Why similar: Wholesome 27.4% ★, Life Sim 19.7%, Cozy 17.6%, Character Customization 12.3%, Cute 6.3%

You have two weeks to save the harvest festival! Tend your garden and collect plants for spells and rituals to help the villagers of Flora. After all, if magic isn't for solving everyday problems, what’s the point of a village witch anyway? A cozy story filled with chaos, friendship, and romance!

Why similar: Wholesome 25.1% ★, Cozy 16.8%, Farming Sim 12.6%, Character Customization 12.4%, Life Sim 10.9%

Foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru, a cozy frog collecting game, where you take pictures of frogs, play mini-games and decorate your habitat. Hop right to it!

Why similar: Wholesome 26.5% ★, Farming Sim 21%, Cozy 15.8%, Nature 9.4%, Building 9%

Find harmony in the Japanese countryside as you help Sparky uncover lost memories in this modern take on the farming and life simulator. Build a thriving homestead, cultivate new relationships, and chase your own happiness in SunnySide.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.5%, Life Sim 16.5%, Cozy 15.7%, Romance 12.2%, Building 10.4%

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.9%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Life Sim 16.8%, Building 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%

Build your ideal, cozy farm in a living village. Form bonds with fellow villagers to lend a hand as you grow crops, care for animals, and craft a corner of paradise. Sail across enchanted islands to discover new resources and adventures along the way.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26%, Cats 16.7%, Cozy 16.5%, Life Sim 15.2%, Building 8.1%

Embark on a magical journey in this captivating life simulation game. Escape to a welcoming valley, farm with spells, and master skills like fishing, crafting, and cooking. Engage in epic battles, strengthen the bonds with your companions, and build your dream home to achieve Immortal Life!

Why similar: Farming Sim 29.2%, Mining 25.2% ★, Life Sim 19.6%, Building 8.8%, RPG 6.5%

Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.

Why similar: Farming Sim 28.5%, Life Sim 23.6%, Cute 9.5%, Immersive Sim 9%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

Build your dream cat cafe in this tiny cozy management sim that lives at the bottom of your screen! Unlock exciting new recipes, decorate your space with our wide variety of goodies, and watch cute cat helpers take care of the cafe while you're doing other things.

Why similar: Cats 34.7%, Nature 11%, Cozy 10%, Building 9%, City Builder 8.6%

A cozy detective adventure where you play as a vacation-bound writer who stumbles upon an idyllic town plagued by an enigmatic thief. Crack the case in this charming seaside town, build relationships, and unravel secrets in a world full of quirky characters and heartwarming stories.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.6%, Cozy 23.3%, Romance 17.2%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, RPG 8.1%

Saddle up and build your own horse ranch! Raise foals, care for your horses and train them as you explore the countryside. Participate in cross country competitions and become your town's champion! Befriend the villagers who'll help you on your adventure at the Ranch of Rivershine!

Why similar: Farming Sim 32.4%, Life Sim 19.7%, Simulation 9%, Nature 8.7%, Building 5.3%

Ritual of Raven is a story-based farming sim - but you don’t do the farming yourself! Enchant Arcana Constructs to grow a magical herb garden, befriend a cute bunch of weirdos and use your witchy skills to perform powerful rituals to stabilize the portals that are causing trouble for the village.

Why similar: Farming Sim 21.8%, Cozy 14.8%, Wholesome 14.7% ★, Life Sim 14.5%, Character Customization 8.1%

A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Farming Sim 21.7%, City Builder 16.2%, Life Sim 15.6%, Building 7.8%