Games like CICADA
If CICADA is your kind of game, the closest matches are FlyHigh, Hypercore and Stock Shock — 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 CICADA: This game is a roguelite simulation action title, where you play as a single cicada striving to survive the summer in the Japanese countryside.
Players who liked CICADA also play
Steam players who put hours into CICADA 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.
FlyHigh
WHY THIS
Top pick for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
Grapple across floating islands, fight dangerous enemies, and hunt powerful loot. Master risky movement, upgrade your stats, and race to the top to defeat the boss as fast as possible. Every run is a new challenge.
Hypercore
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
Hypercore is a Party Platformer made both with and without multiplayer in mind. Over 1 Billion runs possible with up to 4 players locally. Use Numerous Items against dangerous enemies, scale Golden Cliffs and Barren Landscapes and do what is considered impossible.
Stock Shock
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
A fresh take on the genre: a high-octane 3D stylish action game fusing the thrill of combat with the high-stakes tension of the stock market.
Blade
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
"Soulblade: Dawnbreaker" is a sidescrolling action-adventure that packs satisfying combat with immersive story exploration! Every run offers a fresh journey—are you ready to rise to the challenge? If your edge remains undrawn, can youth truly be called youth?
Panta Rhei - Guardian of Time
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
As Chaos threatens to tear the flow of time apart, Phi, a reluctant Guardian of Time, embarks on a journey to the Origin of Time. Equipped with the ability to bend time, they face hostile creatures, solve puzzles and explore the Realm of Time in an adventure rogue-like where time is your weapon.
CRETE
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with CICADA.
Fight against the Ancestors and other biopunk creatures. Use their DNA to build your own procedural weapons, find a friend and combine your skills to be even more powerful. The further you go, the better rewards you will get for the next run. It is up to you to reveal what is up there in the north.
Superation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
Fight Thor and earn your place among the Aesir. Unlock new blessings from the gods and complete challenges to unlock the wisdom of the runes in Superation: a boxing boss-rush roguelike experience
Panda legend
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for CICADA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
The era of cold weapons, the Panda Kingdom was suffered by combine attack because other animals wanted to capture this rich place. Now， you are a desperate frontier general and you decide to set out alone to fight for the low morale of the army.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CICADA at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CICADA.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Action with CICADA.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CICADA.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CICADA.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under CICADA on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with CICADA.
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.
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 Action and Indie with CICADA.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with CICADA.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CICADA.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 CICADA.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CICADA.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CICADA.
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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Other recommendable Steam games by daimaGAME, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Look or Die
WHY THIS
Another title from daimaGAME, the studio behind CICADA. Shares Indie with CICADA.
What happened at this school back then? A mystery horror story unfolds in an abandoned school.
BUTTON PRISON
WHY THIS
Another title from daimaGAME, the studio behind CICADA. Shares Indie with CICADA.
You find yourself trapped in a mysterious room upon awakening. Surrounding you are sparse pieces of furniture, mannequins, and countless buttons. Can you safely escape this room?
Carpet Cleaning Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from daimaGAME, the studio behind CICADA. Shares Indie and Simulation with CICADA.
Clean carpets, earn money, and grow stronger in this incremental cleaning game. Scrub, rinse, and squeegee your way to profit—before time resets and you start again.
Frequently asked about CICADA
- Does CICADA work on Steam Deck?
- CICADA is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does CICADA cost?
- CICADA is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CICADA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CICADA are FlyHigh, Hypercore, Stock Shock.
- Who developed CICADA?
- CICADA was developed by daimaGAME.
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 CICADA.
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