Games like System of Souls
If System of Souls is your kind of game, the closest matches are Portal 2, Portal and The Talos Principle 2 — 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 System of Souls: SoS is a puzzle and first-person platform game, where you play as L-064N, who wakes up in The ION laboratory, place where you will have to go through different logical trials created by the artificial intelligence of the place, in order to recover memories and understand this enigmatic world.
Players who liked System of Souls also play
Steam players who put hours into System of Souls 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.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System of Souls.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Portal
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System of Souls.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Talos Principle 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System of Souls.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System of Souls.
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst raises the action-adventure bar through fluid, first person action and immerses players in Faith's story as she fights for freedom.
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System of Souls.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Hob
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
Candleman: The Complete Journey
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.
Relicta
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for System of Souls fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below System of Souls at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with System of Souls.
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 System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action with System of Souls.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Action with System of Souls.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with System of Souls.
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 System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with System of Souls.
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 System of Souls on Steam right now. Shares Indie with System of Souls.
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.
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 System of Souls.
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 Action with System of Souls.
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 Action and Indie with System of Souls.
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 with System of Souls.
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 System of Souls.
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 Action and Indie with System of Souls.
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 System of Souls.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Portal
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with System of Souls.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Talos Principle 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with System of Souls.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with System of Souls.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Candleman: The Complete Journey
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.
Relicta
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with System of Souls.
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
Frequently asked about System of Souls
- Does System of Souls run on Steam Deck?
- System of Souls 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 System of Souls cost?
- System of Souls is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to System of Souls?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside System of Souls are Portal 2, Portal, The Talos Principle 2.
- Who developed System of Souls?
- System of Souls was developed by Chaotic Lab and published by Gammera Nest.
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 System of Souls.
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