My Koi similar games & best alternatives

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My Koi

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

My Koi, number 1 hit on the Mac App Store (Games), is a beautiful and relaxing fish pond app. Customise and name each fish. Feed them daily. Watch them grow. Collect new fish. Escape and Relax.

What works

  • Beautiful and realistic koi fish graphics
  • Relaxing ambient sounds and music
  • Customizable fish and pond environments
  • Low-pressure, calming gameplay
  • Developer responsiveness and frequent updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Minimal gameplay and interaction
  • Lack of deeper progression or objectives
  • No social or multiplayer features
  • Some technical issues and bugs reported
  • Limited pond customization and content variety

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Joyquarium

  • Plantera

  • Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

  • Fantasy Aquarium

  • Chillquarium

  • FISHERY

More exploratory

Games that feels like My Koi but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • ABZU

  • Everything

  • Subside

  • Fugl

  • NAIAD

  • Shape of the World

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with My Koi. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with My Koi. These titles are not in What to play next.

My Koi: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Thrill, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Strategy, Competence.

Last update: 21/08/2026