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Games like Solar Ash

If Solar Ash is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Bot Adventure, Converter and Inertia ball — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fluid and responsive movement, atmospheric 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.

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Solar Ash is a 2022 action-adventure game developed by Heart Machine and published by Annapurna Interactive. Players navigate a beautiful world using boost-jumping, grappling mechanics, and platforming, with combat-puzzles and exploration forming the core gameplay loop. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, with the art style and soundtrack drawing players into the environment. The movement system is frequently highlighted for being fluid and responsive, creating a satisfying traversal experience. The game is challenging and medium in length, designed for solo play, and is playable on Steam Deck. It holds a 90% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews and is priced at $39.99 USD.

About Solar Ash: From the creators of the award-winning Hyper Light Drifter comes the high-speed and gravity-bending world of Solar Ash.

2022ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Heart Machine
Solar Ash — Steam game cover
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Beautiful art style and soundtrackFluid and responsive movementTwist ending that resonates emotionallyAtmosphericImmersiveBoost jumping

Players who liked Solar Ash also play

Steam players who put hours into Solar Ash 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.

  1. Rogue Bot Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Rogue Bot Adventure is an on-rails 3D platformer. Your goal is to collect the 10 parts of your ship and escape the enemies and hazards of this mysterious planet, including robots, lasers, acid, meteors, and more. Jump, slash, and reflect using your ancient artifact.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Converter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Ash.

    Second-strongest match for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Escape the hellish planet 50Y-80Y in a puzzle platformer about a stranded astronaut overcoming sly planet's shenanigans in the ultimate quest to survive and discover the mysterious planet's secret.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Inertia ball

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    This is an unusual adventure future simulation space game, in different gravity under your operation will also change. Players can feel the vastness of different planets in the game, feel different gravity, feel their own different operations. Conquer the universe!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Glowbot Galaxy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Glowbot Galaxy is a charming cosmic adventure where glowing Glowbots travel across 7 vibrant galaxies to reclaim their stolen stars and rescue their queen from the Demon King. Explore 35 handcrafted levels and challenge 7 epic bosses in colorful, glowing worlds filled with secrets and surprises.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Kewtia: Crystallite Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Explore the Mattyverse as you collect Crystallites in this 3D Platformer packed full of colorful levels, playable characters, and boss fights!

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. RoboSamurai

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    RoboSamurai is a 3rd-person fast-paced sword-fighting action/slasher game about Nix: a robot mechanic turned katana-wielding fighter. Set in a cyberpunk dystopian city filled with corruption and tyrannical corporations waiting for him to let his guard down.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™: Bounty Hunter™

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Bring In Your Bounty, Dead or Alive

    2024ActionAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. HYPERFUNK

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Solar Ash fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    HYPERFUNK is 2 seconds per second of evolved funkstyle. Battle rival crews, hang out online, explore the city, do some crazy tricks and blast through the streets.

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Solar Ash

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Hyper Light Drifter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Ash.

    Reviewers of Solar Ash cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Solar Ash cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Solar Ash.

    It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.

    2016Action19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Sonic Frontiers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Solar Ash.

    Reviewers of Solar Ash cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Experience Sonic like never before!

    2022ActionAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Solar Ash at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Phasmophobia

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Solar Ash.

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Solar Ash.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Schedule I

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Solar Ash.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Solar Ash on Steam right now. Shares Action with Solar Ash.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Solar Ash.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Solar Ash.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Heart Machine

Other recommendable Steam games by Heart Machine, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Hyper Light Drifter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Ash.

    Another title from Heart Machine, the studio behind Solar Ash. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Hyper Light Breaker

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Heart Machine, the studio behind Solar Ash. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    A brand-new entry in the Hyper Light franchise, Hyper Light Breaker is an open world rogue-like with a unique world fully realized in 3D for the first time.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Possessor(s)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Solar Ash.

    Another title from Heart Machine, the studio behind Solar Ash. Shares Action and Adventure with Solar Ash.

    Possessor(s) is a fast-paced action side scroller with combat inspired by platform fighters, a story told through dangerous characters, set in a deep interconnected world ready for exploration.

    2025ActionAdventure2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Solar Ash

Does Solar Ash run on Steam Deck?
Solar Ash is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Solar Ash cost?
Solar Ash is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Solar Ash?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Solar Ash are Rogue Bot Adventure, Converter, Inertia ball.
Who developed Solar Ash?
Solar Ash was developed by Heart Machine and published by Annapurna Interactive.

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 Solar Ash.

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