Games like CYCLES
If CYCLES is your kind of game, the closest matches are From atom to modern, Cultivation Idle and Factory Time — 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 CYCLES: an idle game about automating yourself out of a job. build the machine layer by layer; each layer you finish retires the one below it - your own buttons go dark as you win. when the machine no longer needs you, you break the cycle. and wake up one layer higher. the loop remembers. that's the game.
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From atom to modern
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Top pick for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
From the manufacture of monoatomic hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon, to the creation of the earth, from apes to Homo erectus, to nuclear weapons, rockets, to artificial intelligence, to exploring the universe.
Cultivation Idle
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
A casual cultivation-themed incremental idle RPG. Start as a Qi Refining cultivator, auto-train, idle, break through realms, explore maps and dungeons, defeat monsters, collect gear, skills, materials, pills, spirit stones and pets, farm, fish, chop wood, mine, cook, forge, and plan long-term growth
Factory Time
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
A factory automation incremental game at the end of the universe. Start crafting by hand, automate production, and build the Chronoforge to escape.
Singularity Simulator: Click Is All You Need
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
A clicker/incremental game themed around the technological singularity. Use AI to streamline AI development, build data centers and power plants, and venture into space in pursuit of even more power.
Loop Alchemist
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
You wake up in an unknown land. Again. Use the experience from every past life and your ever-growing knowledge of alchemy to extend each life through a robust alchemical system. Explore, break through and uncover all the world has to offer in this minimalist RPG distilled down to its purest form
Remain At Your Desk
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Ranked #6 for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with CYCLES.
Incremental hacker about faking productivity while stealing from your employer. Sell intel for credits or keep it and raise suspicion. One bad audit and you’re back to Intern.
IT Outage Desk
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Ranked #7 for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with CYCLES.
Start as a help desk technician and build your way to the top. Resolve tickets, hire staff, automate your department, and survive the increasingly absurd chaos of corporate IT in this humorous incremental clicker.
The Farmer Was Replaced
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Ranked #8 for CYCLES fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CYCLES.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
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 Indie with CYCLES.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CYCLES.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CYCLES.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about CYCLES
- What games are most similar to CYCLES?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CYCLES are From atom to modern, Cultivation Idle, Factory Time.
- Who developed CYCLES?
- CYCLES was developed by argakiig.
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 CYCLES.
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