Cradle
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.45/hr
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 2,021
- Critics
- 65 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 69% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.3h
- To 100%
- 11.1h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.94 November 2024
- Sale every
- 52d last March 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 25% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 27% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 52 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 32 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. Obduction ($29.99, scores 43) outscores it, and so does The Station ($14.99, scores 52). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Cradle
This site sampled 468 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 236 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
5.3 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.94 (85% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 227 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game holds a lot of promise, bringing a charming environment, a rich universe, cute and inventive in-world puzzles, and a slightly smart story. It performs well, and the main-world mechanics are amusingly simulator-esque. But the game design is debilitating: the cube minigames you spend most of your playtime on are completely detached from all the above (limp narrative hand-waving notwithstanding) and have a...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is quite peculiar, and I almost fall into saying a product of it's time... but that's not exactly true. Maybe when the devs started working on it that would be true, but this was released in 2015 there were already plenty of indie games that went far and beyond this, both in gameplay and narrative. Firstly, even before I get to the gameplay, I must say that this running in Uningine is not helping the case...
A beautiful sci-fi game. While short, the story is really intriguing. I recommand however to spend some time to look for all the hidden notes as this is mandatory to understand the ending (check the achievements).
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX9c compliant card with 512MB, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Cradle scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/361550/cradleReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.