Games like Epoch Vault
If Epoch Vault is your kind of game, the closest matches are Koimori, Project: C.E.L.L. and Kindred Pieces — 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 Epoch Vault: Restore the lost history of the Mesozoic in an atmospheric idle game. Grow a branching discovery tree, uncover dinosaurs and vanished ecosystems, complete an illustrated scientific Codex, and rebuild the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous.
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Koimori
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Top pick for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
Turn your desktop into a living pond with this peaceful idle overlay. Let koi drift around while you work or relax, drop snacks to see them gather, and unlock rare koi patterns as you spend more time with your little friends.
Project: C.E.L.L.
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Epoch Vault.
An arcade incremental where you run cellular simulations for a megacorp obsessed with immortality. Break glucose, build combos, and spend ATP across a massive skill tree. Experiment with different glucose types, proteins, and lipids from your retro terminal.
Kindred Pieces
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Epoch Vault.
Kindred Pieces is a relaxing world-builder where you shape beautiful landscapes one hex tile at a time. Discover 6 unique biomes, unlock cute characters, and master a subtle layer of strategy to build the biggest world imaginable.
Water Droplet Simulator
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Ranked #4 for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Epoch Vault.
You are a water droplet. You can look around. That's it.
FlyMuse
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Ranked #5 for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Epoch Vault.
The world's first bio-grade desktop pet — a semi-autonomous artificial life with a mind of her own. She has a real brain and real genes: a living creature inside your computer. She evolves open-endedly; encode her into real DNA to keep her. No scripts — she's genuinely alive.
CORGI & WOOLLY - Little Horizon -
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Ranked #6 for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
A little pasture in the corner of your desktop. A lively sheepdog herds sheep and plays beside you while you work or study. Your typing and mouse clicks help grow the flock and bring life to the pasture. A cozy desktop companion game that quietly keeps you company throughout the day.
Aquora
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Ranked #7 for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
Breed, raise, and sell pixel fish in your own living aquarium. Over 400 quadrillion possible fish. Chase ultra-rare mythic traits through generations of genetics, decorate your tank, fish the river, and grow a humble starter pair into an aquatic empire, even while you're away.
Anty Crush
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Ranked #8 for Epoch Vault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
Lead a tiny ant colony through a giant candy world. Crush sweets, collect crumbs, unlock upgrades, grow your colony, and help the Queen evolve in this cozy incremental game.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Epoch Vault.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Epoch Vault.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
‘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 with Epoch Vault.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Epoch Vault.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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- What games are most similar to Epoch Vault?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Epoch Vault are Koimori, Project: C.E.L.L., Kindred Pieces.
- Who developed Epoch Vault?
- Epoch Vault was developed by Epoch Vault Studio.
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