Games like CQ: Calling Any Station
If CQ: Calling Any Station is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project: C.E.L.L., VOID CLICKER: Infinite Prestige and Bogosort — 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 CQ: Calling Any Station: An idle/incremental game about a lone radio operator keying into a silent universe. Click or walk away, both work just as well. Build your station, log distant contacts, retune to grow stronger, and slowly decode what answers back.
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Project: C.E.L.L.
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Top pick for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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.
VOID CLICKER: Infinite Prestige
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with CQ: Calling Any Station.
Void Clicker: Infinite Prestige is a cosmic idle clicker. Click the Black Hole, use Taskbar Mode, trade hundreds of Steam items, collect pets, meet random NPCs, master endless Prestige and create your ultimate build.
Bogosort
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with CQ: Calling Any Station.
Bogosort.exe is an incremental idle game about chaos and sorting. Mix elements, earn resources, upgrade the system, and transform chaos into efficient growth. Discover new mechanics and optimize your progress.
Just a Clicker Game
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Ranked #4 for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CQ: Calling Any Station.
Acquire energy. Build a city. Consume the universe. Just a Clicker Game is a darkly humorous incremental experience where your quest for efficiency might just break reality. Manage simulation instability, unlock the massive Neural Tree, and remember: the Ducky Council is always watching.
Harvesters
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Ranked #5 for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CQ: Calling Any Station.
A short incremental game about gathering resources on different planets. Upgrade the harvesters, unlock new buildings, and unlock new ways to gather resources! It's all about watching lil people do their thing.
SELF//FORK
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Ranked #6 for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with CQ: Calling Any Station.
A physics-driven cyberpunk incremental. Fork yourself into data packets, bounce through a hostile mainframe's defense matrix, and reunite the fragments to break free.
System Ascension: Idle Core
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CQ: Calling Any Station.
Take control of The System. Master multiple interlocking power sources to build a singular, planetary engine in this narrative idle game. Features a fully voiced story, minimalist UI, and cross-platform play. The old world must fall for The System to rise.
Facetier
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Ranked #8 for CQ: Calling Any Station fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with CQ: Calling Any Station.
Match-3 with an automation twist. Every gem you clear is a resource. Store, sort, and route them into machines that extract more gems or match the board for you.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below CQ: Calling Any Station at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~81% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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
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Priced ~41% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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 ~61% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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
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Priced ~71% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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 ~81% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Casual with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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 ~41% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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 ~41% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Indie with CQ: Calling Any Station.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under CQ: Calling Any Station on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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.
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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 CQ: Calling Any Station.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CQ: Calling Any Station.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CQ: Calling Any Station.
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 CQ: Calling Any Station.
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 CQ: Calling Any Station.
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.
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Frequently asked about CQ: Calling Any Station
- How much does CQ: Calling Any Station cost?
- CQ: Calling Any Station is listed on Steam at 5.09 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to CQ: Calling Any Station?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CQ: Calling Any Station are Project: C.E.L.L., VOID CLICKER: Infinite Prestige, Bogosort.
- Who developed CQ: Calling Any Station?
- CQ: Calling Any Station was developed by Arkkis.
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