Games like Game Cycle
If Game Cycle is your kind of game, the closest matches are Everything is going to be OK, Anachronism\> and Andy's Apple Farm — 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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Everything is going to be OK
WHY THIS
Top pick for Game Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Game Cycle.
"Everything is going to be OK" is a desktop labyrinth of vignettes, poetry, strange fever dream games, and broken digital spaces.
Anachronism\>
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Game Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Cycle.
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Andy's Apple Farm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Game Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Cycle.
Play minigames and discover the hidden truth in this retro-style horror game
Iron Circus × INDIEPOCALYPSE Game Jam
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Game Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
Six weird games from six killer team-ups between indie game devs and indie comics artists! We've got puzzles, adventures, exploration, and baby werewolves in this collab between Iron Circus Comics x INDIEPOCALYPSE!
Nanuk - The dusk of the brutes
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Game Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
An incredible 2d platform game, of a hero from the cave age, fighting against great enemies to free his people from a spell and rescue his beloved.
Satawn
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Game Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
Satawn aims for a more complete village life experience: farming, building, inventory, scene-based exploration, transitions between zones, day and night cycles, cinematics integrated into gameplay, and a task system ranging from simple requests to neighbors
ThumBeat: Button Basher Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Game Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
ThumBeat: Button Basher Edition is a short-form, button-bashing rhythm game for busy people!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Game Cycle at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Game Cycle.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Game Cycle.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Game Cycle.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Game Cycle.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Game Cycle.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Action with Game Cycle.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Game Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Cycle.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Game Cycle.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Cycle.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Cycle.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Game Cycle.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Cycle.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Cycle.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Cycle.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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More from Ryan Silberman
Other recommendable Steam games by Ryan Silberman, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Missileman Origins
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Silberman, the studio behind Game Cycle. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
Missileman Origins is a retro-esque action-platformer set in a world where robots and humans co-exist as civilians. Missileman himself is a humble bot that wishes he could, one day, become a hero. He knows he has the potential to be one, but it's never fully realized just how capable he would be.
Dynamite Alex
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Silberman, the studio behind Game Cycle. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
Dynamite Alex is an action platform-shooter starring a 17-year old tomboy named Alexandra Tobynskii. After a cliched outbreak of robbers invading the city, it's up to her to investigate what's going on! Donning glorious retro flair, the game transports players back to when gameplay was king!
Ice Cream Factory
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Silberman, the studio behind Game Cycle. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Cycle.
Who would think working in an ice cream factory could be so challenging?! In this addictive arcade-style game, you have to shoot flavors of ice cream into cones of matching colors! If one cone moves past the pipe without being filled up with delicious ice cream, the game is over.
Mystery of Melody Memorial
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Silberman, the studio behind Game Cycle. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
Join Joseph and Angeli on a musical journey filled with quirky characters and perilous paths to uncover the depths of Melody Memorial!
Garrison Gauntlet
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Silberman, the studio behind Game Cycle. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
Garrison Gauntlet is an oldschool-style action-platformer where you play through over four stages of intense challenges! A little robot that is to serve as nothing more than as one of the many robotic minions owned by the evil tyrant, Garrison, you must stop his forces from the inside!
The Wingless Bee
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Silberman, the studio behind Game Cycle. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
The Wingless Bee is a brand new Frogger-inspired game where a bee named Bella is abruptly thrown far away from the hive she lives and works at. With her wings destroyed, she can only hop to get back home.
Winnie-the-Pooh Hops for Honey
WHY THIS
Another title from Ryan Silberman, the studio behind Game Cycle. Shares Action and Indie with Game Cycle.
Uh oh. Winnie-the-Pooh ate all of the honey that Christopher Robin set aside for the annual Honey Festival! It's up to Winnie to set things right and prove that his heart is bigger than his stomach by adventuring into the Hundred Acre Wood to collect enough honey to save the festival!
Frequently asked about Game Cycle
- How much does Game Cycle cost?
- Game Cycle is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Game Cycle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Game Cycle are Everything is going to be OK, Anachronism\>, Andy's Apple Farm.
- Who developed Game Cycle?
- Game Cycle was developed by Ryan Silberman.
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