Games like ELEA
If ELEA is your kind of game, the closest matches are Elea - Episode 1, Event[0] and Return to Grace — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its melancholic space travel ambiance, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 ELEA: Experience the surreal story of Elea. In this first-person Sci-Fi adventure you play as a space scientist recovering your lost husband. Venture out on a curious interstellar journey, full of devastating memories and startling secrets.
Players who liked ELEA also play
Steam players who put hours into ELEA 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.
Elea - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Top pick for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ELEA.
Experience the surreal story of Elea. In this episodic first-person Sci-Fi adventure you play as a space scientist recovering your lost husband. Venture out on a curious interstellar journey, full of devastating memories and startling secrets.
Event[0]
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Second-strongest match for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ELEA.
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Return to Grace
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Third-strongest match for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ELEA.
A daring space archaeologist has just unearthed the ancient resting place of a long lost A.I. god known as Grace. Adventure with various fractured A.I. personalities as you uncover the great mystery of why she was shut down all those years ago.
The Turing Test
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Ranked #4 for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ELEA.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
Observation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Ranked #5 for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ELEA.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
The Station
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Ranked #6 for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ELEA.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
The Fall of Lazarus
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Ranked #7 for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ELEA.
The Fall of Lazarus is first person exploration and puzzle game. A deeply narrative scifi mystery game based on the exploration of an abandoned cargo spaceship about redemption and second chances.
TR-49
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with ELEA.
Ranked #8 for ELEA fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ELEA.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
![Event[0] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/470260/header.jpg?t=1774622671)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ELEA at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ELEA.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ELEA.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ELEA.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ELEA.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ELEA.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ELEA.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ELEA.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ELEA on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ELEA.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ELEA.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ELEA.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ELEA.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ELEA.
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 ELEA.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ELEA.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 ELEA.
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.
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Frequently asked about ELEA
- How much does ELEA cost?
- ELEA is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ELEA?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ELEA are Elea - Episode 1, Event[0], Return to Grace.
- Who developed ELEA?
- ELEA was developed by Kyodai Ltd and published by SOEDESCO.
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 ELEA.
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