Games like Sol Survivor
If Sol Survivor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Reforged TD - Tower Defense, Satellite Reign and Castle Story — 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.
Get personalized picks →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!
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Reforged TD - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sol Survivor.
Top pick 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!
Satellite Reign
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive 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.
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.
Castle Story
WHY THIS
Shares survival mode with Sol Survivor.
Third-strongest match 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.
Multiwinia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 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.
DG2: Defense Grid 2
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.
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.
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Sol Survivor.
Ranked #6 for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sol Survivor.
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Original War
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sol Survivor.
Ranked #7 for Sol Survivor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sol Survivor.
An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.
GearStorm - Armored Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric 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.
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Sol Survivor
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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.
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.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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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 Reforged TD - Tower Defense, Satellite Reign, Castle Story.
- 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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