Games like New Cycle
If New Cycle is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Crust, Endzone - A World Apart and Industries of Titan — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its microdecisions overload players, challenging and contemplative. 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 →New Cycle is a challenging colony survival simulation released in 2024 by Core Engage and published by Daedalic Entertainment, available as an early access title for $29.99. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, players establish and develop settlements from modest beginnings into industrial centers. The game emphasizes city-layout reconfiguration, conveyor-belt logistics, infrastructure tiering, and resource-chain optimization while managing population survival pressure. Reviewers highlight the depth of the industrial network, noting it rivals that of comparable titles, and players describe the experience as both contemplative and tense, with frequent microdecisions creating intense pacing. The title is solo-only and not currently supported on Steam Deck. It holds an 84% positive rating from over 1,300 Steam reviews.
About New Cycle: New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Players who liked New Cycle also play
Steam players who put hours into New Cycle 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.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with New Cycle.
Top pick for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with New Cycle.
Second-strongest match for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Industries of Titan
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Endzone 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with New Cycle.
Ranked #4 for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with New Cycle.
Ranked #5 for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with New Cycle.
Ranked #6 for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Clanfolk
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with New Cycle.
Ranked #7 for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with New Cycle.
Ranked #8 for New Cycle fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Reviewers mention these as similar to New Cycle
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with New Cycle.
Reviewers of New Cycle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with New Cycle.
Reviewers of New Cycle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with New Cycle.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with New Cycle.
Reviewers of New Cycle cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Annor
WHY THIS
Reviewers of New Cycle cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Annor is a puzzle adventure where the player incarnate an explorer progressing through a city mined by hidden enemies to reach the stone of Annor. Illuminate your environment with your scepter to detect the keys of the puzzle and the threat in order to fight it.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below New Cycle at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under New Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with New Cycle.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under New Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with New Cycle.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under New Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with New Cycle.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under New Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with New Cycle.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under New Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie with New Cycle.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under New Cycle on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with New Cycle.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with New Cycle.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with New Cycle.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with New Cycle.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
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!
OnlyCans: Thirst Date
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with New Cycle.
Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with New Cycle.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with New Cycle.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with New Cycle.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about New Cycle
- Does New Cycle work on Steam Deck?
- New Cycle is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does New Cycle cost?
- New Cycle is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to New Cycle?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside New Cycle are The Crust, Endzone - A World Apart, Industries of Titan.
- Who developed New Cycle?
- New Cycle was developed by Core Engage and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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 New Cycle.
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