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Games like Sol Survivor

If Sol Survivor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Scrappy TD, Reforged TD - Tower Defense and Ages TD — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its demands deep strategic planning, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Sol Survivor: Jump in to intense turret defense action with Sol Survivor! Build turrets to defend your colony and the innocent colonists within. Smash enemies with volleys of actively-controlled orbital support. Play with friends in co-operative and competitive multiplayer matches or test your mettle against our new Survival mode!

2010StrategyIndieDeck PlayableMetacritic 75Windowsby Cadenza Interactive
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Blends tower placement with active abilitiesCo op multiplayer is a blastDemands deep strategic planningAtmosphericChallengingImmersive

Players who liked Sol Survivor also play

Steam players who put hours into Sol Survivor 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. Scrappy TD

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Scrappy TD is a steampunk tower defense game with co-op and PvP modes. Place towers, build mazes, and outsmart foes. Play solo or challenge your friends in several game modes.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Reforged TD - Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Sol Survivor.

    Second-strongest match for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Single or multiplayer tower defense with high replay value. Build and upgrade towers, use special items and discover the extensive talent tree for your characters and towers. Ideal for strategists!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Ages TD

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Spear towers become balistas, balistas become railguns. Defend one world through three ages as it grows around your towers - and find out why the horde keeps returning. A story-driven tower defense about a world worth 800 years of war, and the Reaper who farms it.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. FerroFrame

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    FerroFrame is a real-time strategy ecology simulator — dig, dam, redirect and blast industry into high gear, then survive the world as the balance tilts in either direction. Use gigantic mechs called frames to terraform the planet to your needs and replenish your world with asteroids!

    2027ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Satellite Reign

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Sol Survivor.

    Ranked #5 for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Castle Story

    WHY THIS

    Shares survival mode with Sol Survivor.

    Ranked #6 for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Multiwinia

    WHY THIS

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

    Multiwinia is a fast-paced, retro-inspired RTS that blends arcade action with strategic depth. Command armies of Multiwinians in multiplayer battles across vibrant, nostalgic environments. With simple controls and dynamic gameplay, it offers endless fun and challenge for players of all skill levels.

    2008Indie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. DG2: Defense Grid 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Sol Survivor.

    Ranked #8 for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

    2014StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Sol Survivor

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. Sanctum 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Sol Survivor.

    Reviewers of Sol Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Orcs Must Die!

    WHY THIS

    Shares loadout customization and a challenging mood with Sol Survivor.

    Reviewers of Sol Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.

    2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Iron Brigade

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Sol Survivor.

    Reviewers of Sol Survivor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Sol Survivor.

    Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!

    2012ActionStrategy14.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

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

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

    WHY THIS

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

    Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!

    2021IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sol Survivor

Does Sol Survivor run on Steam Deck?
Sol Survivor is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
Does Sol Survivor have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Sol Survivor supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Sol Survivor?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sol Survivor are Scrappy TD, Reforged TD - Tower Defense, Ages TD.
Who developed Sol Survivor?
Sol Survivor was developed by Cadenza Interactive.

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 Sol Survivor.

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