Games like Eidolon
If Eidolon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, The Long Dark and Мухосранск | Russian City Sim — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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.
Get personalized picks →About Eidolon: Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the interconnected stories of the people who lived here once.
Players who liked Eidolon also play
Steam players who put hours into Eidolon 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.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Top pick for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Second-strongest match for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
Miasmata
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Ranked #4 for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.
Erzurum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Ranked #5 for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Erzurum is a winter survival game which you will struggle against freezing temperatures, the wild nature, hunger and thirst.
Kona
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Ranked #6 for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
Submerged
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Ranked #7 for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Eidolon.
Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.
Eastshade
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Ranked #8 for Eidolon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in need. Visit cities, scale summits, unearth mysteries, and discover forgotten places!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Eidolon
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Proteus
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Reviewers of Eidolon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.
Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Reviewers of Eidolon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Reviewers of Eidolon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Eidolon.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
DEATH STRANDING
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Reviewers of Eidolon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Eidolon.
From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an all-new, genre-defying experience. Sam Bridges must brave a world utterly transformed by the Death Stranding. Carrying the disconnected remnants of our future in his hands, he embarks on a journey to reconnect the shattered world one step at a time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Eidolon at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
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 ~80% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Eidolon.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Eidolon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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 Eidolon.
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 Eidolon.
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 Eidolon.
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 Eidolon.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Eidolon.
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 Eidolon.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Kevin Maxon
Other recommendable Steam games by Kevin Maxon, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Tenderfoot Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Another title from Kevin Maxon, the studio behind Eidolon. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
A party of goblins, granted magic by an ancient spirit, wanders the archipelago, fighting back the terrible Fog. Wield elemental power with wild repercussions in this open-world tactics RPG.
Viridi
WHY THIS
Another title from Kevin Maxon, the studio behind Eidolon. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
Nurture a small pot of succulents that grow in real time. Viridi is a safe haven, a place you can return to for a moment of peace and quiet whenever you need it.
Fire Place
WHY THIS
Another title from Kevin Maxon, the studio behind Eidolon. Shares Indie with Eidolon.
Savor the simple pleasure of building and maintaining a fire. Best enjoyed during seasonal gatherings and cold, dark nights.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Kona
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eidolon.
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won't soon forget.
Submerged
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Eidolon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Eidolon.
Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.
Frequently asked about Eidolon
- How much does Eidolon cost?
- Eidolon is listed on Steam at 4.95 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Eidolon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eidolon are Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, The Long Dark, Мухосранск | Russian City Sim.
- Who developed Eidolon?
- Eidolon was developed by Kevin Maxon, Michael Bell, Zoe Vartanian and published by Ice Water Games.
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 Eidolon.
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