Games like Cellula
If Cellula is your kind of game, the closest matches are Founders Legacy, Idle Grid and Beer Factory Crew — 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 Cellula: Manage a colony of living cells in a strategy game built from real biology. Build phospholipid membranes, place organelles, import nutrients, fight viruses, detect cancer, and divide your cells to grow. No tutorials. No lectures. Learn by keeping the cell alive.
Players who liked Cellula also play
Steam players who put hours into Cellula 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.
Founders Legacy
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cellula.
A relaxing idle-colony builder that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things,Design Your Ultimate colony.
Idle Grid
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cellula.
Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.
Beer Factory Crew
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cellula.
Beer Factory Crew puts you in shoes of a production facility manager. Your goal is to produce finished shipments of beer and sell them. You can manage inventories and work in progress, machine orders, worker assignements and research new items.
Altarnode: Roguelite Cult Colony
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cellula.
Play as an evil god in this 2D top-down survival colony-defense roguelite. Defend your cult, satisfy your altar’s growing hunger for Meat sacrifice. Kill, harvest, process meat, optimize production, and survive as long as you can.
Urban Entrepreneur
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cellula.
Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!
Car Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cellula.
Welcome to "Car Tycoon", running your car company, hire employees to develop and produce cars, sell your cars, and become the best car company!
SimPocalypse
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cellula.
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Patient Zero: Plague Idle
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cellula fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cellula.
Patient Zero: Plague Idle is an idle / incremental outbreak builder where you create the perfect pathogen through mutation trees, global infection, long-term upgrades, and new pathogen unlocks. Turn the world into your lab.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cellula at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~82% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cellula.
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 ~47% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cellula.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cellula.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~73% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cellula.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~82% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Cellula.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cellula.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cellula.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Cellula on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Cellula.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 Indie with Cellula.
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 Cellula.
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?
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cellula.
‘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 Cellula.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cellula.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cellula.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cellula.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Cellula
- How much does Cellula cost?
- Cellula is listed on Steam at 5.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cellula?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cellula are Founders Legacy, Idle Grid, Beer Factory Crew.
- Who developed Cellula?
- Cellula was developed by Patrick Gallaway and published by Pontius Pilates Publishing.
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 Cellula.
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