Games like The Sojourn
If The Sojourn is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hadr, Altered and Micromega — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 The Sojourn: The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.
Players who liked The Sojourn also play
Steam players who put hours into The Sojourn 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.
Hadr
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Sojourn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
Hadr is a short atmospheric game where you control a piece of flying fabric. Every single thing you can cover with your cloth, will disappear. Items, puzzles and story, they all have their place in Hadr. Are real things disappearing or just memories?
Altered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sojourn.
Second-strongest match for The Sojourn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Sojourn.
Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.
Micromega
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Sojourn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
MICROMEGA blends hand-drawn artistry with intricate puzzles in a surreal 2D physics-based adventure. Guide a fragile Sphere through the world of visual artist Mani, interacting with its creatures to unlock paths and overcome challenges. A mesmerizing journey of beauty and fun!
Eschaton
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Sojourn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
Eschaton is a short, experimental, surreal first-person exploration game. Explore the 'aftermath' of a cult ritual in the grounds of a manor in the remote and picturesque Scottish Highlands.
The Button Effect
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Sojourn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
Every button has a purpose. In this short, minimalist first-person puzzler you explore a dense, interwoven architecture – a museum, full of hidden connections and spatial insights.
Sublustrum
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Sojourn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
Step into the space between subconscious and reality. Explore strange liminal worlds, solve sound-driven puzzles, and unravel the secrets behind the enigmatic device left by a vanished scientist.
Empathy: Path of Whispers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sojourn.
Ranked #8 for The Sojourn fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Sojourn.
Reviewers of The Sojourn cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sojourn.
Reviewers of The Sojourn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Sojourn.
Reviewers of The Sojourn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Tetris® Effect: Connected
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Sojourn cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Sojourn.
Tetris® Effect: Connected adds an all-new robust multiplayer expansion to the huge variety of addictive and innovative single-player modes that Tetris Effect is known for, with all-new co-op and competitive online and local multiplayer modes!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Sojourn at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Sojourn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Sojourn.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Sojourn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Sojourn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Sojourn.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Sojourn on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Sojourn.
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 ~68% under The Sojourn on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
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?
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 The Sojourn.
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 The Sojourn.
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 The Sojourn.
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 The Sojourn.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Sojourn.
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 The Sojourn.
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 The Sojourn.
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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Frequently asked about The Sojourn
- Is The Sojourn verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Sojourn is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Sojourn cost?
- The Sojourn is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Sojourn?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Sojourn are Hadr, Altered, Micromega.
- Who developed The Sojourn?
- The Sojourn was developed by Shifting Tides and published by Iceberg 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 The Sojourn.
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