Games like The Cradle
Games like The Cradle include Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch, Platform 8, PEAK, and POOLS. We matched them by the tags players give The Cradle on Steam (Adventure, Action, Walking Simulator, Exploration, and Hidden Object): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Firewatch
Shared: Adventure · Walking Simulator · Atmospheric

What Remains of Edith Finch
Shared: Walking Simulator · Adventure · Exploration

Platform 8
Shared: Adventure · Walking Simulator · Hidden Object

PEAK
Shared: Adventure · Exploration · First-Person

POOLS
Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Realistic

A Plague Tale: Requiem
Shared: Adventure · Action · Exploration

Scanner Sombre
Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · Adventure

[Chillas Art] The Convenience Store
Shared: Adventure · Action · Walking Simulator

Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
Shared: Walking Simulator · Exploration · First-Person

Layers of Fear (2016)
Shared: Walking Simulator · Adventure · First-Person

SILENT HILL: Townfall
Shared: Adventure · Action · Exploration

Gothic 1 Remake
Shared: Adventure · Action · Exploration

SOMA
Shared: Exploration · Atmospheric · Psychological Horror

Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic
Shared: Adventure · Action · First-Person

The Exit 8
Shared: Exploration · Walking Simulator · First-Person

Valley
Shared: Adventure · Exploration · Action

Still Wakes the Deep
Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Adventure

Outlast
Shared: First-Person · Atmospheric · Adventure

The Forest
Shared: Adventure · Action · Exploration

The Long Dark
Shared: Exploration · Adventure · First-Person

Amenti
Shared: Adventure · Exploration · Walking Simulator

Summer of '58
Shared: Walking Simulator · Atmospheric · First-Person

Total Chaos
Shared: Action · Adventure · Exploration

Visage
Shared: Adventure · First-Person · Dark

