Games like The Soul Box
If The Soul Box is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ninety-Six, Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn and Snowdome — 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 The Soul Box: The Soul Box is a kinetic visual novel about the mystery of a puzzle box. A story of a heritage hidden behind what’s written. A different look at the future, a worried glance at the past.
Players who liked The Soul Box also play
Steam players who put hours into The Soul Box 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.
Ninety-Six
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Soul Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
Leaving something behind is a hard task, Niles knows it all too well. When a stranger disturbs his peaceful everyday life and routine, he has no choice but to face the past and make some life-changing decisions.
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Soul Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Snowdome
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Soul Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
For Tan Yan, there is little hope his life will change. It's like his whole life is trapped inside a snowdome, unable to escape. But, what if, one day, he's given the chance to make a change?
VIRTUAL GIRL @ WORLD’S END
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Ranked #4 for The Soul Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Soul Box.
The story is set in future Tokyo, where human’s endless desires have consumed finite resources. In this world that is gradually approaching its end, the streamer girls continue to sing, while embracing dreams and despair in their hearts...
Nobody Wants to Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Soul Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
BURIED STARS
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Soul Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with The Soul Box.
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Naked News
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Soul Box fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Join in the fun with an unforgettable experience unlike any other! Naked News brings some hardcore, crass, dirty, vulgar, dark humour into an easily offended world, not pulling any punches and making fun of everything with this visual novel-style comic, Sitcom-esque episodic!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Soul Box at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Soul Box.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under The Soul Box on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Soul Box.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 and Casual with The Soul Box.
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.
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 with The Soul Box.
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 with The Soul Box.
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 and Casual with The Soul Box.
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 with The Soul Box.
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.
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 The Soul Box.
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.
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More from Ikuku
Other recommendable Steam games by Ikuku, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Knight of the Crimson Tower
WHY THIS
Another title from Ikuku, the studio behind The Soul Box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
Laura is a daughter of the lord of the Crimson Tower. To impress her friends she steals a certain thing from an old witch, so the witch curses her: now, when the full moon rises, Laura turns into a beast and is put in a cage of her tower. But would it be enough to hold her?
Lifesigns
WHY THIS
Another title from Ikuku, the studio behind The Soul Box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
The past was haunting — and so, you fled. To the deep web of streets, blinding lights, skyscrapers, creature comforts, a whole new life, a whole new you. Welcome to the City. Welcome to the Corporation. Welcome to the Game.
For Ever Melancholia
WHY THIS
Another title from Ikuku, the studio behind The Soul Box. Shares Indie and Casual with The Soul Box.
An archaeology student is sent to do his summer training in a place far away from civilization. There he meets three beautiful girls who share his passion for cinema and art. What can possibly go wrong?
Phantoms
WHY THIS
Another title from Ikuku, the studio behind The Soul Box. Shares Indie with The Soul Box.
A kinetic visual novel about an ex-archeologist, ex-professor, always-a-poet and now burglar taking his second ever case to crack open a Soul Box after a reporter from the news blows his brains out during a live broadcast.
Frequently asked about The Soul Box
- How much does The Soul Box cost?
- The Soul Box is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Soul Box?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Soul Box are Ninety-Six, Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn, Snowdome.
- Who developed The Soul Box?
- The Soul Box was developed by Ikuku.
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 The Soul Box.
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