Games like SOLE
If SOLE is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Gardens Between, Kairo and LOST EMBER — 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 SOLE: Explore the remnants of great cities and uncover the history of an ancient civilization on your journey through the dark world of SOLE.
Players who liked SOLE also play
Steam players who put hours into SOLE 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 Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Top pick for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Kairo
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
LOST EMBER
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo: Closure Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Help the cursed souls of Limbo escape their endless time loop in the afterlife. As Kulebra, a newly-deceased snake, witness their grief and guide them toward closure through point-and-click puzzles, light stealth, and empathy-driven boss encounters.
Sunlight
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Traverse a harmonious hand painted forest in this first person hike. ☀️The trees guide you with gentle whispers, as you explore a philosophical story.
Riven
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
No Longer Home
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for SOLE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SOLE at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SOLE.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SOLE.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SOLE.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SOLE.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SOLE.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under SOLE on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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. Shares Indie with SOLE.
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 SOLE.
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. Shares Indie with SOLE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
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. Shares Indie with SOLE.
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 Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
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.
The Gardens Between
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
LOST EMBER
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Explore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo: Closure Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Help the cursed souls of Limbo escape their endless time loop in the afterlife. As Kulebra, a newly-deceased snake, witness their grief and guide them toward closure through point-and-click puzzles, light stealth, and empathy-driven boss encounters.
Sunlight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Traverse a harmonious hand painted forest in this first person hike. ☀️The trees guide you with gentle whispers, as you explore a philosophical story.
Riven
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
No Longer Home
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with SOLE.
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Frequently asked about SOLE
- How much does SOLE cost?
- SOLE is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SOLE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SOLE are The Gardens Between, Kairo, LOST EMBER.
- Who developed SOLE?
- SOLE was developed by Gossamer 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 SOLE.
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