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Cradle

Flying Cafe for Semianimals · 2015-07-24

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 24, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 24, 2015 (Linux)

Cradle is a sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for the player to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.

0
playing now
71%
positive of 2.0k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$12.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Cradle is a 2015 science-fiction first-person adventure game on the topic of transhumanism, developed by Flying Cafe for Semianimals.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 22% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 50k–121k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,014 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.94 at Steam (2024-11-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-06 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.99$1.942015-07-252026-03-262015-07-25 — best price $12.992015-11-26 — best price $11.042016-01-04 — best price $12.992016-03-06 — best price $11.042016-05-20 — best price $12.992016-07-04 — best price $12.992016-10-28 — best price $10.392016-11-23 — best price $10.392016-12-15 — best price $9.742017-03-16 — best price $7.792017-07-05 — best price $12.992017-11-22 — best price $7.792018-01-04 — best price $12.992018-06-22 — best price $6.492018-11-01 — best price $12.992018-12-21 — best price $5.192019-02-12 — best price $12.992019-10-28 — best price $3.242019-12-03 — best price $12.992020-01-23 — best price $3.242020-07-09 — best price $12.992020-11-25 — best price $3.892021-01-05 — best price $12.992021-06-24 — best price $2.592021-11-01 — best price $12.992021-12-22 — best price $3.892022-02-03 — best price $12.992022-11-22 — best price $2.592023-01-05 — best price $12.992023-06-29 — best price $3.892023-08-24 — best price $12.992024-06-27 — best price $2.592024-08-26 — best price $12.992024-12-19 — best price $1.942025-03-20 — best price $12.992025-08-14 — best price $2.592025-10-06 — best price $12.992026-03-19 — best price $1.942026-03-26 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2122026-06-01 — 5 pageviews2026-06-04 — 15 pageviews2026-06-07 — 15 pageviews2026-06-10 — 9 pageviews2026-06-13 — 5 pageviews2026-06-16 — 10 pageviews2026-06-19 — 10 pageviews2026-06-22 — 5 pageviews2026-06-25 — 11 pageviews2026-06-28 — 11 pageviews2026-07-01 — 7 pageviews2026-07-04 — 2 pageviews2026-07-07 — 3 pageviews2026-07-10 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 9 pageviews2026-07-16 — 4 pageviews2026-07-19 — 5 pageviews2026-07-22 — 9 pageviews2026-07-25 — 11 pageviews2026-07-28 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 13 pageviews2026-08-03 — 10 pageviews2026-08-06 — 10 pageviews2026-08-09 — 15 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-15 — 7 pageviews2026-08-18 — 12 pageviews2026-08-21 — 16 pageviews2026-08-24 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 21 pageviews2026-08-29 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
60.5%
earned "Friend"
28.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStatsFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Polish, Spanish - Spain, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,7127%25

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieShortNudityPuzzleSci-fiAdventureCyberpunkOpen WorldStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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