Games like Helios
If Helios is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rec Room: A New Semester, Social Space and Be — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and immersive. 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 Helios: Helios is a social VR and Desktop framework for you to create your dream worlds and avatars.
Players who liked Helios also play
Steam players who put hours into Helios 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.
Rec Room: A New Semester
WHY THIS
Top pick for Helios fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Helios.
Party up with your friends and explore a world of endless fun. Hang out in official rooms, discover community-created rooms, or create unforgettable memories with players from around the world.
Social Space
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Helios fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Helios.
Social Space is the ultimate sandbox for creating and playing together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore player-created spaces, or build something new and amazing to share with the community!
Be
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Helios fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Helios.
Build, relax or explore in a beautiful world. Chill out next to a lake or build crazy structures (with friends!) Choose your own weather & time of day.
Tesera
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Helios fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helios.
Tesera is a sci-fi sandbox game in a mysterious alien world. Explore an endless voxel world, defend yourself against aggressive creatures and drones, building your dream settlement alone or with friends.
Rec Room
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Helios.
Ranked #7 for Helios fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Helios.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
BadLads
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Helios.
Ranked #8 for Helios fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helios.
BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Helios
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VRChat
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Helios.
Reviewers of Helios cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with Helios.
Join our growing community as you explore, play, and help craft the future of social VR. Create worlds and custom avatars. Welcome to VRChat.
Oasis
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Helios cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Casual with Helios.
Oasis is a relaxed environmental strategy game, where players transform the barren sandy land into a prosperous and balanced ecosystem by planting various plants, providing living spaces for various organisms, and bringing life back to the dead world.
ChilloutVR
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Helios.
Reviewers of Helios cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Helios.
ChilloutVR is a social sandbox game enabling players and content creators to create, share and explore content in a massive multiplayer metaverse alone, with friends or anyone around the world. Meet new people and explore virtual worlds together. Playable with and without a VR-Headset.
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 Helios.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Helios.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helios.
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 Helios.
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 Helios.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Helios.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Helios.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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 Helios.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Frequently asked about Helios
- Does Helios run on Steam Deck?
- Helios is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Does Helios have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Helios supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Helios?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Helios are Rec Room: A New Semester, Social Space, Be.
- Who developed Helios?
- Helios was developed by Helm Boy Studios and published by Interdiction Studios.
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 Helios.
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