Games like Birthdays the Beginning
If Birthdays the Beginning is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kojimachi, Dinosaur Simulator and CritterGarden — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its colorful sandbox freedom, creatures feel alive and experimentation over rules. 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 Birthdays the Beginning: The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!
Players who liked Birthdays the Beginning also play
Steam players who put hours into Birthdays the Beginning 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.
Kojimachi
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Top pick for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
Kojimachi is a widget style pet game where you can feed and care for your pet on the island you decorate.
Dinosaur Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
Colonise a newly discovered planet with dinosaurs, give these creatures a new chance at life! More than 40 species of dinosaurs are waiting for you to bring them back to life after 66 million years!
CritterGarden
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Birthdays the Beginning.
Third-strongest match for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
You are an astrobiologist stranded on a lifeless planet. Breathe new life into this mysterious world by gathering plants, animals, and research upgrades to help it grow back to its full potential. Collect, breed, and evolve over 90 cute and quirky Critters to help you on your journey back home!
Jurassic Gym
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Ranked #4 for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
Run your own dinosaur gym on the bottom of your screen while you stay productive! Hatch new buddies, train them up, send them to competitions, and spend your winnings upgrading and customizing your Jurassic Gym.
Dino Park
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Ranked #5 for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
🦕 Dino Park is a cozy idle game about collecting dinosaurs! 🦖 Watch your dinosaurs level up in real time, earning more money for your park. Create the perfect environment for your dinosaurs to increase the chance of discovering super rare variants! Can you collect them all?
Fossil Quest
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Ranked #6 for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
You have always dreamt of creating your own dinosaur museum and now you finally have the space to do it! Dig for fossils, assemble your exhibits and create the museum of your dreams in this relaxing, wholesome life sim.
Creatura
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Shares ecosystem balancing and a relaxing mood with Birthdays the Beginning.
Ranked #7 for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
Seed, Breed, Create. From single cell organisms to complex ecosystems. Evolve every part of your own unique aquarium / terrarium by applying scientifically accurate principles of natural and artificial selection, in Creatura - ultimate Virtual Evolution Vivarium Simulator.
Megaquarium
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Shares a relaxing mood with Birthdays the Beginning.
Ranked #8 for Birthdays the Beginning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Birthdays the Beginning at current Steam store prices.
The Test
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Priced ~50% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
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?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
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Priced ~50% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~75% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
The NOexistenceN of Lilith
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Priced ~55% under Birthdays the Beginning on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
Lilith has returned from the fantasy world to become your desktop companion. Watch her wander freely across your screen with lively animations and dynamic real-time behaviors. Spend cozy everyday moments together as she keeps you company and eases the stress of daily life.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
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 Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
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 Simulation with Birthdays the Beginning.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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More from Arc System Works
Other recommendable Steam games by Arc System Works, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
The cutting-edge 2D/3D hybrid graphics pioneered in the Guilty Gear series have been raised to the next level in “GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-“. The new artistic direction and improved character animations will go beyond anything you’ve seen before in a fighting game!
BlazBlue Centralfiction
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Birthdays the Beginning.
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
Combining a 2D fighting game with a visual novel, the BlazBlue series continues on with massive fan support! The latest installation, BlazBlue: Centralfiction, serves as the ending to the Azure Saga, revealing the hidden truth of the world!
GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
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Shares a contemplative mood with Birthdays the Beginning.
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
Granblue Fantasy: Versus
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
A new game in the Granblue Fantasy universe, available on Steam! This fantasy game blends fighting game action and RPG-style adventure. Throw yourself into matches or enjoy powering up your characters!
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
Rise to the challenge in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising! This powered up, revamped sequel to GBVS is more enjoyable and accessible than ever before. With simplified input options, even newcomers can engage in thrilling and strategic matches!
GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
Ultimate battle action, and the epitome of the GUILTY GEAR XX series now on Steam! Bonus soundtracks included!
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
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Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind Birthdays the Beginning.
A Persona 4 Smackdown!
Frequently asked about Birthdays the Beginning
- Does Birthdays the Beginning work on Steam Deck?
- Birthdays the Beginning is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Birthdays the Beginning cost?
- Birthdays the Beginning is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Birthdays the Beginning?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Birthdays the Beginning are Kojimachi, Dinosaur Simulator, CritterGarden.
- Who developed Birthdays the Beginning?
- Birthdays the Beginning was developed by Arc System Works, TOYBOX Inc. and published by NIS America, Inc..
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