Games Like Calico

Calico

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!

★ PARALIVES ★ LITTLE FRIENDS: PUPPY ISLAND ★ ORIKO DAYS ★ UNPACKING ★ CATTAILS | BECOME A CAT! ★ NEW DAY ★ PETS HOTEL: PROLOGUE ★ STICKY BUSINESS ★ MY HORSE: BONDED SPIRITS - PROLOGUE ★ TINY LIFE ★ SQUEAKROSS: HOME SQUEAK HOME ★ FIRESIDE FEELINGS ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Paralives

90% 👍 OF 19K
About This Game

Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?

In this game, you can…

  • …build without a grid, using curved walls and split-level floors, then stack rooms into a fully furnished four-story townhouse on a tiny lot.
  • …stretch furniture and watch it physically change, like a couch growing extra cushions as it gets longer.
  • …walk anywhere in a seamless open world, wander into shops and museums, and run into community events happening around town.
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Little Friends: Puppy Island

95% 👍 OF 308
About This Game

Get ready for a pawsome puppy adventure in Little Friends: Puppy Island! Discover exciting locations, dig up hidden treasures, build and expand your holiday resort, and meet plenty of lovable little friends to care for on your very own un-paw-gettable, tropical island adventure!

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Oriko Days

93% 👍 OF 180
About This Game

Oriko Days is a warm and cute life-sim inspired by classic virtual pet games! You get to look after your very own catgirl friend Oriko - Give her attention, feed her, decorate her apartment, and watch how she reacts. ₍^. .^₎Ⳋ

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Unpacking

93% 👍 OF 40K
About This Game

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

In this game, you can…

  • …try to hang your diploma in your boyfriend's place and get forced to shove it under the bed instead.
  • …realize a breakup happened because you're putting your ex's photo in a cabinet, then unpacking your girlfriend's clothes in the next home.
  • …right-click almost everything to discover little hidden interactions and weird details.
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Cattails | Become a Cat!

96% 👍 OF 2.7K
About This Game

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!

In this game, you can…

  • …fight off rival colony cats invading your borders, win the skirmish, and flip which colony controls that map tile.
  • …raise your kittens, bring them on adventures, and train them by taking them along.
  • …watch kittens grow up with their own personalities, then choose their names and coat colors as they mature.
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Pets Hotel: Prologue

89% 👍 OF 361
About This Game

Pets Hotel: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Pets Hotel: Prologue gives you a unique opportunity to build, design, and run a place where pets can feel at home. Cats, dogs, turtles, and many other animals are waiting for you to take care of them!

REL Jan 25, 2023 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Sticky Business

94% 👍 OF 7.6K
About This Game

Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers’ stories. Time to build the cutest shop on the internet!

In this game, you can…

  • …export your sticker designs as transparent PNGs for real-world use.
  • …make an upside-down dead fish with skull-and-crossbones, then have a customer ask for that exact sticker for their sad friend.
  • …cram a single sticker sheet with hundreds of tiny freebies to print and toss into every order.
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My Horse: Bonded Spirits - Prologue

58% 👍 OF 226
About This Game

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version. Build a bond with your horse and gain its trust. Develop yours and the horse’s skills. Discover the surrounding open world. Complete tasks and take part in competitions. Rebuild a run-down stud farm!

REL Mar 13, 2024 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Tiny Life

86% 👍 OF 421
About This Game

In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!

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Squeakross: Home Squeak Home

98% 👍 OF 2.1K
About This Game

In Squeakross: Home Squeak Home, solve and transform puzzles into furniture to decorate the perfect home for your rodent friend. Collect hundreds of decorations, accessories and stickers in this cozy game full of charm!

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Fireside Feelings

97% 👍 OF 286
About This Game

Share your thoughts and discover those shared by others, in Fireside Feelings. Gather around the welcoming warmth of the campfire and take part in conversations between real people separated in space and time. Sometimes, we all need a good talk under the stars.