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Games like Sokobond

If Sokobond is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cosmic Express, A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build and Block Buster Billy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and relaxing. 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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About Sokobond: Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

2014Indie14.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 82Windows · macOSby Alan Hazelden, Lee Shang Lun
Sokobond — Steam game cover
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Chemistry themed puzzles feel freshClever twists on sokoban mechanicsMinimalist design pairs with themeChallengingContemplativeRelaxing

Players who liked Sokobond also play

Steam players who put hours into Sokobond 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. Cosmic Express

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Sokobond.

    Top pick for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

    2017Indie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sokobond.

    Second-strongest match for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

    2015Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Block Buster Billy

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sokobond.

    Third-strongest match for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?

    2023StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sokobond Express

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Sokobond.

    Ranked #4 for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Sokobond Express is a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways.

    2024IndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Snakeloop

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Snakeloop is a challenging puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.

    2025StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Perplexicube

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Perplexicube is a challenging isometric puzzler where you must work together with your past and future selves. You'll have to think ahead as you create loops backwards in time to set your futures selves up for success.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗
  7. ToneTrek

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    A colorful logic puzzle game where each step changes tile colors in a looping sequence. Plan your moves, recreate target patterns, and solve handcrafted levels across multiple game modes with minimalist style and relaxing flow.

    2025IndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Build Molecules for Vick - Chemistry Puzzle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Sokobond fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Build molecules for Vick is a Puzzle game about chemistry. Assemble molecules by snapping and swapping atoms together until you assemble the molecule Vick needs. No prior knowledge of chemistry is required.

    2021Casual1.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Sokobond

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. A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sokobond.

    Reviewers of Sokobond cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

    2015Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Sokobond Express

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Sokobond.

    Reviewers of Sokobond cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Sokobond Express is a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways.

    2024IndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cosmic Express

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Sokobond.

    Reviewers of Sokobond cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

    2017Indie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. A Monster's Expedition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Sokobond.

    Reviewers of Sokobond cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Sokobond on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Sokobond.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Alan Hazelden

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

  1. A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sokobond.

    Another title from Alan Hazelden, the studio behind Sokobond. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

    2015Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Cosmic Express

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Sokobond.

    Another title from Alan Hazelden, the studio behind Sokobond. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

    2017Indie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Bonfire Peaks

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sokobond.

    Another title from Alan Hazelden, the studio behind Sokobond. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.

    2021Indie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sokobond.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

    2015Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Block Buster Billy

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Sokobond.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?

    2023StrategyIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Sokobond Express

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Sokobond.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Sokobond.

    Sokobond Express is a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways.

    2024IndieCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sokobond

Does Sokobond run on Steam Deck?
Sokobond 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 Sokobond cost?
Sokobond is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Sokobond?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sokobond are Cosmic Express, A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, Block Buster Billy.
Who developed Sokobond?
Sokobond was developed by Alan Hazelden, Lee Shang Lun and published by Draknek & Friends.

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 Sokobond.

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