Games like Monolith
If Monolith is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Invincible, Event-D and Warp Frontier — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and melancholic. 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 Monolith: A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
Players who liked Monolith also play
Steam players who put hours into Monolith 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.
The Invincible
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Top pick for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
Event-D
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Second-strongest match for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
Sci-fi Visual Novel (Linear Story). A group of astronauts, scientists and robots is sent to space on a mission to investigate the disturbing disappearance of the first manned spaceship in its journey to Mars.
Warp Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Third-strongest match for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
In the year 2215, orbiting humanity's newest extrasolar colony, Police Captain Vincent Cassini becomes embroiled in an intersystem conspiracy to bury crimes that occurred during the war that devastated his planet.
Artificial Nexus
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Susan has woken up in a strange, coffin-like device, with no memory of who or where she is. Uncover the answers in this visual novel as you solve puzzles to escape in a stunning sci-fi mystery investigation!
Omega Warp
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Omega Warp is a sci-fi themed action-adventure, which takes place aboard an interstellar freighter. Explore, upgrade your skills and equipment, and uncover the mysteries surrounding the freighter's loss of communication with the base of operations on Earth.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Ranked #6 for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
ENCODYA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Ranked #7 for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
Neo Berlin 2062. Tina – a nine-year-old orphan – lives with SAM-53 – her big clumsy robot guardian –in a rooftop makeshift shelter in Neo-Berlin, a dark megalopolis controlled by corporations.
Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Monolith.
Ranked #8 for Monolith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Monolith
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The Longest Journey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Reviewers of Monolith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
The Dig®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Reviewers of Monolith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
An asteroid the size of a small moon is on a crash course toward Earth. Once the wayward asteroid is nuked into a safe orbit, a trio conducts a routine examination of the rocky surface. What they uncover is anything but routine.
DIG THE GROUND
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Monolith cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Dig the Ground is a unique Match3 puzzler in which you have to match gems of the same color and use all sorts of tools to clear the ground tiles beneath you.
Returnal™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Reviewers of Monolith cross-mention this title as a similar play.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Reviewers of Monolith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
The year is 1923—step inside Castle Woods Sanatorium, where care and cruelty blur together. Disguised as a doctor, you’ll diagnose and treat patients using a deck of symptoms, tests, and outdated therapies. But tread carefully: one wrong move could expose you as an impostor.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Monolith at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monolith.
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 ~67% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monolith.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monolith.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monolith.
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 ~67% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monolith.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Monolith on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Monolith.
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 Monolith.
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 Monolith.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
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 Monolith.
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 Monolith.
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 Monolith.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Animation Arts
Other recommendable Steam games by Animation Arts, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Lost Horizon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
1936: Soldiers of the Third Reich roam the world seeking occult weapons for their insane plans of conquest. When Fenton Paddock, a former British soldier and hapless smuggler, is asked to look for his friend Richard, who went missing in Tibet, he has no idea that this search will lead him across three continents to a secret that could...
Secret Files: Tunguska
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
Unravel one of the greatest mysteries of our time! On the 30th June 1908 an explosion with the combined energy of 2000 Hiroshima bombs rocked the region of Tunguska in Central Siberia and felled over 6,000 square km of trees. The explosion could be heard from as far as 1,000km away.
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
The sequel to the award winning adventure hit Secret Files Tunguska. Famine in Africa, floods in Southeast Asia, economic crisis in Europe, and civil wars in South America, the world is on the brink of disaster.
Secret Files: Sam Peters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster - cryptozoologists are trying to track these creatures down and research them. One also appears in the legends of the Ashanti people in Ghana. These tell of human-like creatures that lurk in the trees at night and take their victims off to their caves to suck their blood: the...
Secret Files 3
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
The bestselling Secret Files franchise celebrates its return! The dream couple Max and Nina have announced their forthcoming wedding.
Preston Sterling
WHY THIS
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Preston Sterling and the Legend of Excalibur is the first episode of an adventure series that will transport you into the world of English myths and legends. Tackle tricky puzzles and enjoy an exciting story, lovable characters and stunning scenes and locations!
Gabby's Odyssey
WHY THIS
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
Embark on a journey through the fantastical world of Larion in this action-adventure inspired by timeless classics of the genre. Solve clever puzzles, overcome perilous dungeons, and unlock new abilities — while discovering that imagination is not a weakness, but a force that can change everything.
Secret Files: Tunguska - Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Animation Arts, the studio behind Monolith. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
The award-winning adventure classic returns as a remaster with modernized visuals and updated technology. Join Nina and Max on a globe-spanning investigation filled with puzzles, conspiracies, and danger – and uncover the secret of Tunguska that changes everything!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Invincible
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Monolith.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Monolith.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Monolith.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Monolith.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Frequently asked about Monolith
- Is Monolith verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Monolith is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Monolith cost?
- Monolith is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Monolith?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monolith are The Invincible, Event-D, Warp Frontier.
- Who developed Monolith?
- Monolith was developed by Animation Arts and published by Animation Arts, Assemble Entertainment.
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