Games like DESOLUS
If DESOLUS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cape Hideous, PALINGENESIS and PsyX — picked from the ranked list below. 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 DESOLUS: Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.
Players who liked DESOLUS also play
Steam players who put hours into DESOLUS 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.
Cape Hideous
WHY THIS
Top pick for DESOLUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Amongst the motliest of all crews, an enigmatic woman prepares the ship to enter an intense thunderstorm raging in the middle of the ocean. What otherworldly mysteries lie within?
PALINGENESIS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DESOLUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DESOLUS.
A music-driven puzzle adventure where sound shapes the world. Solve mysteries, escape the Human Wheel, and experience the album by GRIGS in PALINGENESIS.
PsyX
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DESOLUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Sometimes, regrets come too late. When you're over 40, you start to rethink your life. You remember people and events that completely changed you. I will tell you 7 stories that happened to me in childhood, after which I became a different person.
Oceanarium
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for DESOLUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Oceanarium is a meditative underwater interplanetary exploration game about all the forces that tie the strange creatures of the universe together.
Polly's Puzzle Box
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for DESOLUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.
Hyperbolica
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for DESOLUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for DESOLUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with DESOLUS.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DESOLUS.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DESOLUS.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with DESOLUS.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Hyperbolica
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with DESOLUS.
Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.
Superliminal
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with DESOLUS.
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Frequently asked about DESOLUS
- What games are most similar to DESOLUS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DESOLUS are Cape Hideous, PALINGENESIS, PsyX.
- Who developed DESOLUS?
- DESOLUS was developed by Mark J. Mayers.
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 DESOLUS.
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