Games like Solaris
If Solaris is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vibrant Venture, Shovel Knight Dig and Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale — 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 Solaris: "Solaris" is a story about a journey in search of yourself. The hero fulfills the last will of a loved one, meeting many strange characters. The road is full of humor, but the further you go, the stronger the feeling becomes: beneath the cozy surface, something terrible is awakening.
Players who liked Solaris also play
Steam players who put hours into Solaris 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.
Vibrant Venture
WHY THIS
Top pick for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Solaris.
Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!
Shovel Knight Dig
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!
Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale is a comedic adventure with dark mysteries. Help young girl Mai to find her way home. Progress by solving puzzles and outsmarting enemies in minigames. Make friends and foes with talking animals. Unravel the mystery of Mai’s identity from her dark and blurry memories.
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
我的高冷女友 MY COLD GIRLFRIEND
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
What's It Like to Have a Girlfriend with a Hidden Side? 💙A romantic comedy visual novel set in a modern campus, where a dare leads to an unexpected relationship with a cold beauty—and a sweet, chaotic cohabitation begins.
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Play as an adorable yet trouble-making turnip. Avoid paying taxes, solve plantastic puzzles, harvest crops and battle massive beasts all in a journey to tear down a corrupt vegetable government!
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine is a hilarious point-and-click adventure in which you stumble irresponsibly through history to help legendary geniuses complete their masterworks!
Grapple Dog
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Solaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Solaris at current Steam store prices.
Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Solaris on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Solaris on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Solaris on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Hentai Beach
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Solaris on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Plunge into an incredible endless adventure with beautiful girls on a sunny beach away from the hustle and bustle. The girls are looking forward to meeting you, but can you charm them?
A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Solaris on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
A TRIP TO YUGOSLAVIA is an experimental interactive game with a theme of the old VCR player (with the ability to REWIND, PAUSE and FASTFORWARD).
CATGIRL LOVER 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Solaris on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
An incredible continuation of a vibrant and interesting history of learning in the Golden Shower Order! Flashy and juicy anime girls are waiting for you! A simple but fascinating game with a mixture of Visual Novel and Match3.
aMAZE Classic
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Solaris on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
aMAZE Classic is a straightforward and surprisingly - difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze with abstraction art and calm soundtrack.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shovel Knight Dig
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of mystery in Shovel Knight Dig, an all-new Shovel Knight adventure!
Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale is a comedic adventure with dark mysteries. Help young girl Mai to find her way home. Progress by solving puzzles and outsmarting enemies in minigames. Make friends and foes with talking animals. Unravel the mystery of Mai’s identity from her dark and blurry memories.
Gwen The Hen 64
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Gwen the Hen 64 is a tiny 3D platformer collectathon, with precise controls and many different movement options.
Grapple Dog
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Solaris.
Jump, Swing and Zip your way through colourful worlds and exciting challenges in this unique 2D action-platformer! Master the power of the Grapple on your adventure to save the world!
Frequently asked about Solaris
- How much does Solaris cost?
- Solaris is listed on Steam at 1.00 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Solaris?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Solaris are Vibrant Venture, Shovel Knight Dig, Apopia: Sugar Coated Tale.
- Who developed Solaris?
- Solaris was developed by Cherry 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 Solaris.
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