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Games like Start an egg

If Start an egg is your kind of game, the closest matches are WarOfGods 2, All Over and Tundralia: The Frigid Frontier — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, 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.

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About Start an egg: "Start with an Egg" is a Shan Hai Jingthemed sandbox adventure game. Begin as a beast egg, and through devouring, mating, and exploration, evolve into the ultimate divine beast ruling a mythical open world.

2023IndieAdventureRPGCasualEarly Access15.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Ting Game
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Addictive progression loop of fighting and evolvingBeautiful creature models and animationsCamera controls allow strategic positioningAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into Start an egg 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. WarOfGods 2

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Start an egg fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Start an egg.

    Action RPG to rule the city with goddesses and pets. Protect and rule your city using a variety of creations including cars, bikes, horses, dragons, bosses, and more. You can summon bosses, summon the three goddesses, hire gun-shooting soldiers or workers.

    2025ActionRPGRacing29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. All Over

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Start an egg.

    Second-strongest match for Start an egg fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start an egg.

    An indie Action RPG/adventure/puzzle Complete story-based quests, solve puzzles, use your sword and spells to fight and gain loot from monsters. Gather resources to build and craft potions and items. Fight legendary bosses.

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  3. Tundralia: The Frigid Frontier

    WHY THIS

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

    Tundralia is an RPG in which you play as a novice adventurer, seeking to find fame and fortune in a frozen wasteland. Explore a stylized open world, fight as one of three classes using traditional tab target combat, complete quests, delve into dungeons, and collect a plethora of equipment.

    2024IndieAdventureRPG3.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Elmarion: Dragon's Princess

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Start an egg fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start an egg.

    «Elmarion: Dragon’s Princess» is an RPG about a Dragon and a Princess. A player plays as a Dragon: flies across a large 3D world, burns whole armies of people, explores interesting locations. Aim of the game: to save the world of Dragons and people together with the Princess.

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation10.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Sagas of Lumin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Start an egg fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start an egg.

    Sagas of Lumin is a single-player, semi-open-world action RPG. Master dragon riding as you soar across the skies, engage in thrilling aerial battles, and explore a vast world. Seamlessly switch to ground combat with swords, spells, and firearms. Your choices will shape the fate of this world.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Stellar Fantasy World

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Start an egg fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start an egg.

    When alien threats descend upon the planet, you embark on a grand adventure. Born from a massive stone, you know nothing of this world. During your open-world exploration, every corner of the land hides mysteries and pleasant surprises.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Peerless Destiny 绝世天命

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Start an egg fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Start an egg.

    A 3D ARPG.Millennia later, you wake in a dying shell. Darkness rules, demons reign. The path of cultivation is now myth.You smile, eyes cold.A mechanical voice echoes:[Invincible Cultivation System rebooted][Energy 1%… Identity: Ancient Human Immortal][Privilege unlocked: Reignite cultivation]

    2026ActionAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  8. On the Dragon Wings - Birth of a Hero

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Start an egg fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Start an egg.

    Get ready for the Best Dragon Riding Experience! You are not born as a Hero. But you can become one of them! Bruce and Ursula are brother and sister. One day their life starts to change with a Dragon. Now, It is time to become a Hero by saving their captive father from Dark Rider.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Start an egg at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Start an egg.

    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 ~69% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Start an egg.

    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. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Start an egg.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start an egg.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Start an egg.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Start an egg.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Start an egg.

    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 ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Start an egg on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Start an egg.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

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 Start an egg.

    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. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Start an egg.

    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 ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Start an egg.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Start an egg.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Start an egg

Does Start an egg run on Steam Deck?
Start an egg is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Start an egg cost?
Start an egg is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Start an egg?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Start an egg are WarOfGods 2, All Over, Tundralia: The Frigid Frontier.
Who developed Start an egg?
Start an egg was developed by Ting Game.

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 Start an egg.

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