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Games like The Eternal Cylinder

If The Eternal Cylinder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lion Quest Infinity, Onirike and Seed of Life — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and emotional. 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.

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About The Eternal Cylinder: Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.

2022ActionAdventure24.99 USDMetacritic 79Windowsby ACE Team
The Eternal Cylinder — Steam game cover
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Evocative storytelling with emotional depthLow pressure survival with creative freedomMutation system feels like crafting a living familyAtmosphericContemplativeEmotional

Players who liked The Eternal Cylinder also play

Steam players who put hours into The Eternal Cylinder 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. Lion Quest Infinity

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Jethro the Lion and friends steal a magic grandfather clock and embark on an unforgettable adventure. Are they here to save the universe, or is it simply a marketing ploy constructed as part of an elaborate book tour?

    2021ActionIndieAdventure10.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Onirike

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Second-strongest match for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Onirike is an original 3D adventure, puzzle and platformer video game which takes place in an intricate open world, designed with a non-linear narrative and presented with a peculiar audio-visual aesthetic.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Seed of Life

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Seed of Life is an epic adventure game about the persistence of life. You're Cora, the last known survivor of Lumia, a dying planet. Your only hope to save your homeworld is to activate the Seed of Life and rekindle the sun once again. Will you be the light that conquers the darkness?

    2021ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Praey for the Gods

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Ranked #4 for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Hauntii

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Ranked #5 for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    An action adventure about a ghost’s journey through the afterlife. Possess enemies and the environment and fend off hostile spirits in pursuit of starry fragments from a past life.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. DEATH STRANDING

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Ranked #6 for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.

    2020ActionAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. DreadOut 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Ranked #7 for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    A third-person horror adventure that draws inspiration from Indonesian urban legend. Play as Linda, a high school student with the ability to sense and see ghosts. This spine-chilling sequel expands on the cult hit original, making DreadOut 2 another terrifying addition to the horror genre.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Moss: Book II

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Ranked #8 for The Eternal Cylinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Quill is back—and she’s being hunted. To stand a chance, Quill will need a true partner by her side—and we hope that partner is you. Moss: Book II is an action-adventure puzzle game and award-winning sequel (The Game Awards "Best VR/AR Game") to Moss.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Eternal Cylinder

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. SPORE™

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Reviewers of The Eternal Cylinder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.

    2008ActionStrategyAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Zeno Clash

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Reviewers of The Eternal Cylinder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal. Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world.

    2009ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. No Man's Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Reviewers of The Eternal Cylinder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Croak Crusader: Spawn of the Spore Spectre

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Reviewers of The Eternal Cylinder cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Embark on an odyssey into the unknown! Behold the tale of Toadman, an enigmatic being born from alien tech and the mysteries of Radiant Verde. Witness his perilous quest through treacherous jungles to confront Captain Croak in an epic showdown! Welcome to "Spawn of the Spore Spectre"!

    2025ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Eternal Cylinder at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under The Eternal Cylinder on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from ACE Team

Other recommendable Steam games by ACE Team, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Rock of Ages

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    The greatest rock-racing, tower defense, art history game is back! Like the title says, Bigger & Boulder cranks up the surrealism and gameplay with chaotic 4P multiplayer, new time periods, and improved graphics, physics, and destructibility powered by UE4 to be, well… BIGGER AND BOULDER.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Zeno Clash

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal. Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world.

    2009ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Abyss Odyssey

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…

    2014ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Competitive tower defense meets arcade action and gets rolled up with ACE Team's quirky, Monty Python-esque humor into one giant, creative game for the ages. This time around, you can even make your own levels!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Clash: Artifacts of Chaos

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Hunted by mercenaries of an enemy with untold power, the fighter Pseudo and the creature under his protection begin a perilous quest to the edges of strange lands.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Deadly Tower of Monsters

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Fire up your ray guns, crystal swords, and laser whips, and get ready for thrills and chills! With three incredible movie stars playing out decidedly B-level sci-fi exploits, Dick Starspeed, Scarlet Nova, and Robot will have you ready to jump off the side of the tower—right into adventure!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Zeno Clash 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Another title from ACE Team, the studio behind The Eternal Cylinder. Shares Action with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Ghat's story is far from over: Zeno Clash 2 picks up where the deliciously brazen first game left off. After 4 years of waiting, the sequel to the surreal first-person brawler brings more variety in combat and levels, and even more bizarre storytelling into the beguiling world of Zenozoik.

    2013ActionIndie4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Praey for the Gods

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Praey for the Gods is a boss climbing open world adventure game where you play a lone hero sent to the edge of a dying frozen land to explore and solve the secrets of a never ending winter. Grapple, glide and grab hold of massive beasts as you fight to survive and return the world to proper order.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Hauntii

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    An action adventure about a ghost’s journey through the afterlife. Possess enemies and the environment and fend off hostile spirits in pursuit of starry fragments from a past life.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. DEATH STRANDING

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Eternal Cylinder.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Eternal Cylinder.

    From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.

    2020ActionAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Eternal Cylinder

Does The Eternal Cylinder work on Steam Deck?
The Eternal Cylinder is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does The Eternal Cylinder cost?
The Eternal Cylinder is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Eternal Cylinder?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Eternal Cylinder are Lion Quest Infinity, Onirike, Seed of Life.
Who developed The Eternal Cylinder?
The Eternal Cylinder was developed by ACE Team and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.

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 The Eternal Cylinder.

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