Games like Cradle-18
If Cradle-18 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Above Earth, Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator and Astrometica: Prologue — 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 Cradle-18: A sci-fi immersive sim with horror elements set on an abandoned orbital station. Manage life support systems, conserve resources, and survive in an atmosphere of mounting pressure where the environment is fully interactive.
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Steam players who put hours into Cradle-18 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.
Above Earth
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Top pick for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
Above Earth is a science fiction survival game. Experience a struggle for life in the fragile artificial environment of a damaged space station.
Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator
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Second-strongest match for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
Pilot your starship in Starship Fighters, a realistic space combat simulator. Engage in intense battles, explore vast galaxies, and unleash destruction with an arsenal of powerful weapons in a universe teeming with enemies!
Astrometica: Prologue
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Third-strongest match for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Astrometica
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Ranked #4 for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
INTERASTRA: Planet Survival
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Ranked #5 for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cradle-18.
INTERASTRA is a fully immersive first-person sci-fi survival adventure game set in outer space. Discover unknown planets differing in weather conditions, resources, and various mysteries. Craft necessary equipment, launch, and control space rockets, explore the universe, and survive among the stars.
No Man's Sky
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Ranked #6 for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cradle-18.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
The Infinite Black 2
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Ranked #7 for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cradle-18.
Command a fleet of ships to hunt aliens, trade resources and loot treasure! Form corporations with your friends while fighting a never-ending intergalactic war in this open-world online space adventure!
Void Crew
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Ranked #8 for Cradle-18 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cradle-18.
Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!
Free alternatives
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cradle-18.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cradle-18.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cradle-18.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Lab
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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!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
93, Kuindzhi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cradle-18.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about Cradle-18
- What games are most similar to Cradle-18?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cradle-18 are Above Earth, Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator, Astrometica: Prologue.
- Who developed Cradle-18?
- Cradle-18 was developed by Black Bull 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 Cradle-18.
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