Games like Ballad of Solar
If Ballad of Solar is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Promised Land, Stone Rebellion and Maggie's Movies - Second Shot — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy 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.
Get personalized picks →About Ballad of Solar: In a land of enchantment, torn by evil, a hero arrives to save the day! Guide Solar and his band of helpers as they set out to stop the dark sorcerer Grogan from achieving eternal life and to rescue the fair Lumina.
Players who liked Ballad of Solar also play
Steam players who put hours into Ballad of Solar 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.
The Promised Land
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Ballad of Solar.
Top pick for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Stone Rebellion
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Lead the Stone Elementals in a fight for survival. Build and grow a thriving city, gather resources, craft powerful equipment, and prepare your warriors for challenging nightly battles as you defend your civilization in a hostile world.
Maggie's Movies - Second Shot
WHY THIS
Shares resource allocation, time management and a cozy mood with Ballad of Solar.
Third-strongest match for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Become a movie director and help Maggie survive her second shot at fame, as she directs her first feature-length pirate movie!
Medicus
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Step into the role of a medieval medicus! Manage your own medieval potion shop! Craft potions, serve customers, expand your workspace, and grow your reputation in a relaxing isometric simulation with strategic resource management.
12 Labours of Hercules XVII: Feathered Fury
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Help Hercules stop a comet from destroying Earth! Explore Aztec temples, solve puzzles, and meet the legendary Quetzalcoatl!
Flesh Grinding
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Grind flesh. Gather blood. Upgrade. A first-person incremental horror game where you manage a macabre basement. Buy dark upgrades, boost your efficiency, and push your machinery to the limit while avoiding the terrifying entity that watches your every move.
12 Labours of Hercules II: The Cretan Bull
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a chill mood with Ballad of Solar.
Ranked #7 for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Accompany Hercules in his quest for the Cretan Bull!
Hermes: Tricks of Thanatos
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ballad of Solar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Someone has thrown open the Gates of Hell and is letting the damned escape into the realm of the living! Battle malevolent spirits, call on demigods to provide aid and restore life to a besieged world!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Ballad of Solar
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Roads of Rome
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a relaxing mood with Ballad of Solar.
Reviewers of Ballad of Solar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Advance into the unknown territories full of secrets and dangers. Expand the famous road system to the far corners of mighty Roman Empire in this blend of casual strategy, sim and time management genres!
Rescue Team
WHY THIS
Shares time management with Ballad of Solar.
Reviewers of Ballad of Solar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Control the rescue workers who rebuild three islands in the wake of devastating weather! Repair damaged restaurants, houses, and sawmills to produce necessary resources. Race against the clock to collect gems, put out fires, and save stranded swimmers!
12 Labours of Hercules
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a chill mood with Ballad of Solar.
Reviewers of Ballad of Solar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Accompany Hercules on a quest to rescue his wife, kidnapped by the evil Hades in 12 Labours of Hercules! You'll meet heroes from Ancient Greece as you vanquish beasts, repair roads and construct wonders in this stunning Time Management game!
Northern Tale
WHY THIS
Shares time management and a chill mood with Ballad of Solar.
Reviewers of Ballad of Solar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
A beautiful legend filled with magic, bravery and amazing adventures!
Northern Tales 6: Oath to the Gods Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Ballad of Solar cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Ragnar the great Viking king continues his journey. Now he needs to return home after a long wandering. However, new adventures lie ahead. Who knows what new dangers may lie in wait for Ragnar and the party on the way to the house.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ballad of Solar at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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?
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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 ~79% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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 ~86% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
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.
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ballad of Solar.
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.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Ballad of Solar on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
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 Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
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More from Alawar
Other recommendable Steam games by Alawar, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wall World
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
Necrosmith
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
Beholder: Conductor
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Karate Survivor
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!
Wall World 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
Necrosmith 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ballad of Solar.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
They Always Run
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Adventure with Ballad of Solar.
Become Aiden, a three-armed mutant who hunts the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. Catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies in this exciting 2D platformer with a space-western setting.
The Happy Hereafter
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Ballad of Solar.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Ballad of Solar. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ballad of Solar.
Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!
Frequently asked about Ballad of Solar
- How much does Ballad of Solar cost?
- Ballad of Solar is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ballad of Solar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ballad of Solar are The Promised Land, Stone Rebellion, Maggie's Movies - Second Shot.
- Who developed Ballad of Solar?
- Ballad of Solar was developed by Alawar and published by ESDigital 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 Ballad of Solar.
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