IMHO.

Games like CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations

If CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations is your kind of game, the closest matches are Insect Empires, Black Market INC. and BioBioBio: Creatures OS — 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 CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations: Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.

2026IndieSimulationWindowsby 岡部 正孝
CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations — Steam game cover

Players who liked CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations also play

Steam players who put hours into CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations 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. Insect Empires

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Choose between 4 factions and wage war against your enemies in this real-time strategy game. Insect Empires is a cartoon style Isometric real-time strategy game about colony type insects. Choose your faction and wage war against any foe!

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  2. Black Market INC.

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Build and manage your own criminal empire in this first-person sandbox management simulator. Produce illegal goods, automate production, hire staff, complete customer orders, expand your base, and grow your business while balancing profit and risk.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. BioBioBio: Creatures OS

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Splice genes into strange living creatures for a cheerfully evil biotech corp — inside a game that pretends to be your work computer. Raise them, breed them, put them to work, and hit quota before the Review Cycle ends. Your employer calls them Bioassets™.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Fill the Sky

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

    2027StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  5. Necromancer's Workshop

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  6. Tramp: Become President

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    This is your cyber begging companion: collect, craft, and trade hundreds of items, recruit a cast of eccentric NPCs, explore the sewers, build your business empire, dodge taxes, and buy votes on the black market. One day, you'll be shouting from the back of your own presidential campaign truck.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  7. CircuitVeil

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Factory Town 2: Paradise

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation22.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations

What games are most similar to CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations are Insect Empires, Black Market INC., BioBioBio: Creatures OS.
Who developed CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations?
CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations was developed by 岡部 正孝 and published by Dayveil Games.

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 CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations.

For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.

Games Like CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations (2026) · imho.run