Games like Soul Essence
If Soul Essence is your kind of game, the closest matches are In Hope Voiden, Find, Eat, Hide: Till Dawn and Submarine Homesick Blues — 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 Soul Essence: A frantic, race-against-time survival horror game with Roguelite and Metroidvania elements. Traverse a decrepit, cultist-infested estate and collect awakened souls to conquer an ancient god looking to feast on your essence. Before midnight strikes—can you defeat the god or prevent its return?
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In Hope Voiden
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Top pick for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
A forbidden warzone. Twelve soldiers. One life each. In this first person survival horror, death is permanent and the world remembers. Explore a surreal, trench-ridden hellscape where every action matters - and every death uncovers a new piece of a haunting mystery.
Find, Eat, Hide: Till Dawn
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Second-strongest match for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Soul Essence.
This game is a horror survival single-player game. Avoid ghosts, find food, eat and survive. In each round, buildings, furnishings, and food are placed with some degree of randomness. Survival times stack. The longest survival time is saved.
Submarine Homesick Blues
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Third-strongest match for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
A real-time submarine management and survival game with tactical pause, where you manage crew, systems, and resources under constant pressure.
Shaft 29
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Ranked #4 for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
You are alone in Shaft 29...Descend into old, pitch-black, and hazardous labyrinth to restore the failing power grid. Scavenge the dark for scrap, repair components in safe room, and brave anomalies hiding in the depths. Keep the lights on, and keep moving down...
The Subminer
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Ranked #5 for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
An atmospheric underwater drilling roguelite beneath the icy crust of Enceladus. Pilot your submarine, explore the depths, mine resources through procedural caves and upgrade your base. Each dive is darker and more dangerous, and you must face the terrors lurking in the shadows. Live. Dive. Repeat.
Ivory Cage
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Ranked #6 for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
Descent with your team into the depths of an abandoned theme park to repair its broken machinery, and survive what's still down there.
Stash Mayhem
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Ranked #7 for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Soul Essence.
Run a medieval warehouse at full speed. Items keep arriving and customers keep ordering: organize everything your way and deliver before their patience runs out. In this sorting roguelite, the only map is in your head. Know where everything is, or just embrace the mayhem.
A Quiet House in Flatbush
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Ranked #8 for Soul Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
Based on real events: A Quiet House in Flatbush is a survival retro VHS horror game where you are trying to escape from a serial killer's house of horror - collect items, use your ingenuity to solve puzzles, bypass traps and overcome obstacles, evade the killer who is stalking the halls and escape!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Soul Essence.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Soul Essence.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Soul Essence.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Soul Essence.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Soul Essence.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Soul Essence.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Soul Essence
- What games are most similar to Soul Essence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Soul Essence are In Hope Voiden, Find, Eat, Hide: Till Dawn, Submarine Homesick Blues.
- Who developed Soul Essence?
- Soul Essence was developed by Remmer and published by Goffin 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 Soul Essence.
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