Games like The Cradle of Life
If The Cradle of Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crystals of Power, Primus Numen and Dark Deity 2 — 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 The Cradle of Life: A brutal turn-based tactical RPG where you fight on a grid, manage hunger and sanity, and uncover a world breaking apart. Your choices are permanent and the gods are always watching. Who will you serve?
Players who liked The Cradle of Life also play
Steam players who put hours into The Cradle of Life 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.
Crystals of Power
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Top pick for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Cradle of Life.
The crystals hold the power to save Elicion—or destroy it. The choice lies in your hands.
Primus Numen
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Second-strongest match for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
A turn-based, grid-based, tactical RPG where you combine classes and join together to unleash an evolving Nexus Beast.
Dark Deity 2
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Third-strongest match for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
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Ranked #4 for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Enter Tahnra, a land savaged by war. You, a fresh academy graduate with humble beginnings, will grow to lead a grand army against a corrupt adversary. Gather heroes, form bonds, and lead your force in turn-based battles. Make use of tactics, terrain, morale and more to bring peace to the land!
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children
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Ranked #5 for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.
Dark Deity
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Ranked #6 for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Kingsvein
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Ranked #7 for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Explore and reclaim the infested castle-city of Kingsvein! Ride into its depths on your trusty wyvern, and lead your customizable party of Knights and Mystics in deep tactical combat.
Persona 3 Reload
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Ranked #8 for The Cradle of Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Cradle of Life.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cradle of Life.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cradle of Life.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cradle of Life.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cradle of Life.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dark Deity 2
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Enter Tahnra, a land savaged by war. You, a fresh academy graduate with humble beginnings, will grow to lead a grand army against a corrupt adversary. Gather heroes, form bonds, and lead your force in turn-based battles. Make use of tactics, terrain, morale and more to bring peace to the land!
Dark Deity
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Cradle of Life.
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Persona 3 Reload
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Cradle of Life.
Dive into the Dark Hour and awaken the depths of your heart. Persona 3 Reload is a captivating reimagining of the genre-defining RPG, reborn for the modern era with cutting-edge graphics and gameplay.
Frequently asked about The Cradle of Life
- What games are most similar to The Cradle of Life?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cradle of Life are Crystals of Power, Primus Numen, Dark Deity 2.
- Who developed The Cradle of Life?
- The Cradle of Life was developed by Garrett Mickelsen and published by Milo's Games.
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 The Cradle of Life.
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