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Games like The Cloudvale Protocol

If The Cloudvale Protocol is your kind of game, the closest matches are Travelling At Night, The Ludus: Ashes Over Pompeii and ROSETIA: A First Contact RPG — 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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About The Cloudvale Protocol: A story-rich, tabletop-inspired game about hope for a better future, the power to shape it, and the hard choices that follow. Save a wounded utopia built to benefit all, while trying to keep a stranded boy alive. As the stakes rise, your choices will decide the fate of more than one world.

IndieAdventureRPGWindowsby Antidawn Studio
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Players who liked The Cloudvale Protocol also play

Steam players who put hours into The Cloudvale Protocol 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. Travelling At Night

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.

    IndieAdventureRPGSteam ↗
  2. The Ludus: Ashes Over Pompeii

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    Become Maximus Valerius and inherit a decaying Ludus in ancient Pompeii. Train gladiators, survive political intrigue and forge your legacy in this cinematic historical strategy drama.

    2027StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. ROSETIA: A First Contact RPG

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    Speak for Earth in ROSETIA—a first contact CRPG for fans of hopeful sci-fi and hard choices. Win the trust of an alien civilization. Change their world or stay your hand. Become humanity’s finest diplomat or a disaster of cosmic proportions.

    IndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Within the Inner Palace

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.

    IndieSimulationRPGSteam ↗
  5. The Iron and the Oath

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.

    2026IndieAdventureRPG6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Astronaut: The Best

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!

    2021AdventureSimulationRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Breakout 13

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Cloudvale Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG6.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 The Cloudvale Protocol.

    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. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cloudvale Protocol.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. 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 The Cloudvale Protocol.

    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 ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cloudvale Protocol.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Cloudvale Protocol.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Cloudvale Protocol

What games are most similar to The Cloudvale Protocol?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cloudvale Protocol are Travelling At Night, The Ludus: Ashes Over Pompeii, ROSETIA: A First Contact RPG.
Who developed The Cloudvale Protocol?
The Cloudvale Protocol was developed by Antidawn Studio.

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 Cloudvale Protocol.

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