Games like The Cycle: Frontier
If The Cycle: Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers, Destiny 2 and Marauders — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, competitive and intense. 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 The Cycle: Frontier: The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters and other ambitious Prospectors.
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P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers
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Top pick for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers is a multiplayer survival game set in the distant future, 100 years after the catastrophe of a colony ship. Humanity has become trapped within an unknown star system. Players must work together and fight for survival during desperate evacuation attempts.
ActionSteam ↗Destiny 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.
Marauders
WHY THIS
Shares extraction shooter with The Cycle: Frontier.
Third-strongest match for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
ARC Raiders
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Cycle: Frontier.
Ranked #4 for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Apex Legends™
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with The Cycle: Frontier.
Ranked #5 for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.
Exit Ways
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Ranked #6 for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
🛠️🔫🚁Test your luck in the extraction shooter with survival elements. Build your camp, exterminate the contaminated and evacuate the civilians.
Hunt: Showdown 1896
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cycle: Frontier.
Ranked #7 for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Delta Force
WHY THIS
Shares extraction shooter and a competitive mood with The Cycle: Frontier.
Ranked #8 for The Cycle: Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with The Cycle: Frontier.
Play for free in operator-based extraction and full-scale combined arms warfare. Become elite Operators, customize an ever-expanding arsenal of weapons, and deploy into thrill-packed missions across multiple modes.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Cycle: Frontier
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Escape from Tarkov
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cycle: Frontier.
Reviewers of The Cycle: Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with The Cycle: Frontier.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Borderlands 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Cycle: Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Hunt: Showdown 1896
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Cycle: Frontier.
Reviewers of The Cycle: Frontier cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Cycle: Frontier.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Free To Play with The Cycle: Frontier.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
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Frequently asked about The Cycle: Frontier
- Does The Cycle: Frontier work on Steam Deck?
- The Cycle: Frontier is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- Does The Cycle: Frontier have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Cycle: Frontier supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Cycle: Frontier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Cycle: Frontier are P.R.I.M.A.L. Keepers, Destiny 2, Marauders.
- Who developed The Cycle: Frontier?
- The Cycle: Frontier was developed by YAGER.
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 Cycle: Frontier.
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