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Games like Cthulhu pub

If Cthulhu pub is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends, IDLE Animal Anatomy and Rocket Inc — 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.

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About Cthulhu pub: In Cthulhu pub, you can build your own pub or restaurant. Create cute characters, creepy monsters and establish a small cute pub or make a large castle with monsters, humans, and ancient Gods.

2022IndieAdventure9.99 USDWindowsby Marginalact
Cthulhu pub — Steam game cover

Players who liked Cthulhu pub also play

Steam players who put hours into Cthulhu pub 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.

  1. Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

    2021SimulationFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. IDLE Animal Anatomy

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    A colorful clicker simulator where you can yourself grow a living creature cell by cell! Watch how organs, bones and skin are growing! Feel like a real scientist by becoming a pet creator!

    2024SimulationCasual11.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Rocket Inc

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    Help build mankind's last magnificent structure in this game where you carry out transport missions between planets in the solar system. Build your company and prepare to take off! Earn humankind's respect with more missions.

    2022StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Mars Horizon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Idle Monkeylogy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    IDLE GAME based on the Infinite Monkey Theorem

    2021SimulationFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. PRINCIPIA: Master of Science

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Principia: Master of Science is a simulation game with the theme of European science in 17th century. Choose one of 12 real scientists from the era of Isaac Newton and proceed with your research. It is a time when even the term "Science" did not exist. Who can be the master of science?

    2016IndieSimulationEarly Access9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. SimPocalypse

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Cthulhu pub fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cthulhu pub at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Cthulhu pub on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Marginalact

Other recommendable Steam games by Marginalact, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Marginal act

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    The greate waves destroyed everything in the city, but the mysterious mechanism stopped the time in the game district. For all outside residents, the events within the segment stopped, but for the inhabitants of the district the time continues to go.

    2018IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Bloody trains

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    Sitcom train conductor blowing heads simulator

    2019ActionIndieSimulation1.89 USDSteam ↗
  3. Why pizza?

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub.

    Baba is you meet Getting over it to deliver the best pizza and try not to get bankrupt!

    2021Action1.89 USDSteam ↗
  4. KOBOLOK

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    KOBOLOK is an ethnic PS1 style horror game based on an Eastern European fairytale about round bread "Kolobok" aka "O Koblížkovi" aka "Pannkauken".

    2021Adventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Bakeborough

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub. Shares Indie with Cthulhu pub.

    In Bakeborough, a Bakery RPG, you can take out your eye to see less.

    2023IndieRPG0.71 USDSteam ↗
  6. Frogvival

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub.

    Frogvival is a survival game in which you eat an animal - you add its DNA to you!

    2023Strategy12.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Cthulhu tower

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    Cthulhu Tower is a dark twist on classical tower defense genre where you try to protect your eldrich world from cruel crowds of humans!

    2024ActionAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Where is Drake?

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Marginalact, the studio behind Cthulhu pub. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu pub.

    Your new favourite horror game where you need to find Drake the pirate among other imposters

    2024Adventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Cthulhu pub

How much does Cthulhu pub cost?
Cthulhu pub is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cthulhu pub?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cthulhu pub are Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends, IDLE Animal Anatomy, Rocket Inc.
Who developed Cthulhu pub?
Cthulhu pub was developed by Marginalact.

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 Cthulhu pub.

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