Games Like The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Psychedelic 26.4%, Abstract 22.7%, Surreal 19.5%, Nonlinear 7.8%, Exploration 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same focus on surreal, impossible architecture and abstract exploration that defines the Solaris experience.

Ready for a wild trip of psychedelic sights and sounds? 0°N 0°W is a chill, first-person walking sim for everyone, where each run is a fresh adventure!

Why similar: Psychedelic 28.2%, Surreal 18.4%, Abstract 14.1%, Nonlinear 7.2%, Exploration 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the same psychedelic, open-ended exploration of colorful and abstract environments.

Meet colorful characters, discover mysterious secrets, and reassemble the fractured remains of an ethereal crystal as you explore a series of abstract worlds based on dreams, nightmares, and the places in between.

Why similar: Abstract 29.9%, Surreal 27.5%, Exploration 10.5%, Walking Simulator 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly surreal and dreamlike atmosphere that rewards players for wandering through strange, atmospheric spaces.

CUCCCHI is a game where you explore beautiful dioramas and go through dangerous and trippy labyrinths, in a journey inside the paintings of Enzo Cucchi.

Why similar: Psychedelic 26.5%, Abstract 21.7%, Surreal 18.1%, Exploration 7.6%, Nonlinear 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the experimental, artistic, and abstract nature of exploring procedurally generated or dream-inspired worlds.

NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Why similar: Abstract 29.8%, Surreal 20.2%, Exploration 14.2%, Psychedelic 10.2%, Walking Simulator 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a masterclass in abstract, architectural exploration that feels both vast and deeply mysterious.

Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.

Why similar: Psychedelic 28.1%, Abstract 21.7%, Surreal 20.3%, Adventure 7%, Exploration 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a surreal, abstract landscape where exploration and memory play a central role in the player's journey.

You're stranded at a cathedral-like train station in the near future, searching for a ticket out of town. Explore the secret passageways, interact with strangers, dig for records, and get hypnotized by the soundtrack – a batch of original music courtesy of the band, Archie Pelago.

Why similar: Surreal 55.9%, Walking Simulator 17%, Adventure 7.9%, Exploration 6.5%, First-Person 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly surreal, atmospheric, and dreamlike environment that encourages slow-paced exploration and observation.

Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.

Why similar: Surreal 26.5%, Psychedelic 23.8%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Exploration 10.6%, Walking Simulator 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal, music-driven exploration game captures a similar sense of discovery within a bizarre and colorful setting.

Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Why similar: Exploration 24.6%, Walking Simulator 20%, Procedural Generation 18.3%, Relaxing 9.6%, Surreal 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential procedural exploration game that focuses on the harmony between environment, sound, and visual discovery.

Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Why similar: Exploration 22.2%, Walking Simulator 20.1%, Abstract 18.3%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, visually striking method of exploration that turns the environment into a beautiful, abstract point-cloud landscape.

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.

Why similar: Abstract 32.8%, Surreal 27%, Exploration 15.4%, Atmospheric 8.7%, First-Person 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes abstract, minimalist architecture and puzzle-based exploration that feels very similar to the Solaris aesthetic.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Sewer Rave is a game about exploring a rat infested Rave in a Sewer. There are creatures to talk to, items to collect, fights to get into, and jams to listen to. Explore, discover secrets, and writhe.

Why similar: Psychedelic 36.8%, Abstract 21.8%, Exploration 9.4%, Walking Simulator 9.2%, Nonlinear 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a casual, psychedelic, and surreal exploration experience that feels like a digital art installation.

You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.

Why similar: Surreal 40.4%, Exploration 17.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the liminal, surreal, and atmospheric exploration of endless, unsettling spaces.

SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.

Why similar: Psychedelic 37.9%, Abstract 25.2%, Exploration 10%, Walking Simulator 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a bizarre, open-world environment filled with surreal characters and hidden details that reward curious explorers.

Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border. Discover the remnants of illicit industry. Prepare for an assassination. This is Paratopic, an atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure through a cursed fever dream.

Why similar: Surreal 62.9%, Atmospheric 13.6%, Adventure 9.9%, Walking Simulator 9%, First-Person 4%

Why You'll Like It: This title delivers a low-poly, surreal, and deeply atmospheric experience that feels like wandering through a fever dream.

Snap your own homemade liminal space photos using a mysterious SLR camera as you explore a variety of empty, strange, and familiar spaces.

Why similar: Exploration 27.3%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Atmospheric 16.4%, First-Person 8.6%, Adventure 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at capturing the eerie, liminal, and atmospheric feeling of exploring empty, dreamlike indoor environments.

Explore an avant-garde cubist dream, stimulate your visual senses and immerse yourself in a surreal TRIP. A visually tantalizing open world artware that culminates the player to relax and enjoy a safe enviroment for them to explore at their own pace. There are no objectives, no rules, just art.

Why similar: Psychedelic 27.8%, Abstract 20.5%, Surreal 16%, Walking Simulator 7.1%, Exploration 7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a relaxing, casual, and psychedelic walking simulator that focuses on visual and auditory immersion.

A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.

Why similar: Psychedelic 43.2%, Exploration 15.3%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Adventure 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on atmospheric, surreal planetary exploration with a heavy emphasis on movement and visual awe.

Explore and unravel the mall of your mind in this surreal adventure game.

Why similar: Surreal 51.2%, Walking Simulator 31.8%, Casual 16.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a surreal, philosophical, and casual exploration experience that subverts mundane settings.

Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation.

Why similar: Nonlinear 25.9%, Exploration 22.9%, Atmospheric 14.1%, First-Person 11.8%, Adventure 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a deeply immersive, atmospheric, and abstract world that rewards players for exploring its unique, surreal environments.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Psychedelic 39.9%, Surreal 33.2%, Exploration 9%, First-Person 7.2%, Colorful 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It uses perspective and surreal logic to create a dreamlike, abstract world that constantly challenges the player's perception.

Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places. A late night drive, a deserted airport lounge, a moonlit walk through an empty park, a quiet carriage on an overnight train. Who will you meet? What will you talk about? Where will the journey take you? Find yourself along the way.

Why similar: Abstract 39.1%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Exploration 9.5%, Walking Simulator 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the surreal, philosophical, and atmospheric nature of travel and exploration in liminal spaces.

A walking sim in which you can explore all kinds of mysterious places and dive into a world full of atmosphere. Let this experience unfold in your head. Let it inspire you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 44.3%, Atmospheric 21.5%, Casual 21%, Adventure 9.6%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a minimalist, atmospheric, and surreal exploration experience that focuses on the beauty of empty, abstract spaces.

An exploration game that delves into the depths of loneliness. Wander through empty rooms, search for signs of an abandoned world, and listen to the sounds around you. No dangerous chases, just silence and an empty world to explore.

Why similar: Surreal 34.2%, Exploration 16.5%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Atmospheric 7.9%, First-Person 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the exploration of psychological, dreamlike, and liminal spaces that feel both familiar and deeply strange.

You are trapped in a strange dream from which there is no waking. It is stitched from Chinese nostalgia, childhood echoes, and liminal spaces—where sense and nonsense blend freely. All you can do is keep exploring, until you must choose: return to restless reality, or stay in the dream forever?

Why similar: Psychedelic 28.5%, Surreal 20.2%, Abstract 17.8%, Walking Simulator 8.5%, Exploration 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the essence of a dreamlike, atmospheric, and surreal exploration experience.

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Surreal 22.1%, Exploration 14.2%, Walking Simulator 11%, Colorful 11%, Nonlinear 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It uses color and abstract geometry to create a puzzle-exploration experience that feels visually aligned with Solaris.

Explore imaginary landscapes, like you're flying in another world. Observe and dive into those chaotic shapes all around you. And even transform them! You're totally free to move where you want, you will discover a tremendous variety of shapes and colors!

Why similar: Psychedelic 28.9%, Abstract 20%, Surreal 16.1%, Exploration 7.1%, Procedural Generation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing, psychedelic, and abstract flight experience that focuses on visual exploration.

A sci-fi exploration sim for people who like to wander. Get lost in an alien city, hang out with locals, see some sights. There’s no goal but to stroll. Where will your feet take you?

Why similar: Exploration 20.7%, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Colorful 11.5%, First-Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a short, surreal, and highly atmospheric exploration game that captures the feeling of wandering through strange, alien cityscapes.

Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

Why similar: Exploration 22%, Procedural Generation 18.6%, Casual 14.4%, Relaxing 13.9%, Atmospheric 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows for vast, surreal, and philosophical exploration across scales, matching the abstract curiosity of Solaris.

Explore the strange world within the screen in this ambient exploration experience featuring the music of Red Vox.

Why similar: Surreal 37.1%, Psychedelic 23.1%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.4%, First-Person 6.4%

Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.

Why similar: Psychedelic 22.5%, Surreal 22.2%, Abstract 19.5%, Exploration 7.5%, Walking Simulator 6.9%

Dig deep, unearth treasures. Upgrade your tools to uncover the secrets of the mystical caves. This is also an inner journey of relaxation, where your intuition can guide you as you dig deeper into the mysteries.

Why similar: Adventure 25.9%, Atmospheric 23.1%, Casual 19.6%, 3D 15.1%, Exploration 11.1%

3D first-person walking simulator with a side of exploration/interaction with the environment. The game tells the story of the Space Lemmings from Space who, after running many experiments with breakfast alphabet and the space-time continuum, got blocked between dimensions (or something).

Why similar: Psychedelic 32.8%, Abstract 16.4%, Surreal 15.2%, Walking Simulator 7.4%, Exploration 7.2%

This is a surreal exploration game. Explore a massive fractal with great complexities. You can shrink infinitely to go deeper into the fractal. Or you can become larger by growing. Inner space awaits you in this infinite world.

Why similar: Psychedelic 38.2%, Surreal 28%, Exploration 12.3%, Nonlinear 10.6%, First-Person 4.2%

Endless subway rides, void probes, cosmic gardens and the fate of a planet, fiction.colors is a series of short atmospheric experiences to explore at leisure.

Why similar: Psychedelic 26.5%, Abstract 23.1%, Surreal 9.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Walking Simulator 8.3%

What went wrong on Fragrance Point? Explore, hang out, and poke around where you're not supposed to.

Why similar: Psychedelic 40.7%, Surreal 22.8%, Exploration 10.4%, Walking Simulator 7.7%, Colorful 6%

Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the interconnected stories of the people who lived here once.

Why similar: Exploration 36.6%, Walking Simulator 31.4%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Adventure 12.9%, First-Person 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a meditative, procedural exploration game set in a post-human world that emphasizes quiet discovery and atmosphere.

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Surreal 32.3%, Abstract 22.3%, Psychedelic 11.2%, Exploration 10.8%, Nonlinear 9%

LiDAR Exploration Program is a relaxing atmospheric game with light horror elements, where you explore in complete darkness using a scanner to reveal the world around you.

Why similar: Exploration 23.4%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Atmospheric 17.4%, Adventure 12.7%, First-Person 10.5%

Welcome to Liminal Lane. A short, single player, first person, atmospheric walking simulator. A nostalgic, surreal experience exploring Liminal Spaces. Uncover the secrets of Liminal Lane and escape the Lucid Dreams and Haunting Nightmares.

Why similar: Abstract 37.5%, Exploration 12.9%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Colorful 7.8%, Adventure 6.7%

Step into a radiant dimension where souls reboot as data. Recover your reincarnation machine from alien terrorists and explore glowing temples of memory, logic, and light. A surreal odyssey through death, rebirth, and the beauty of being lost.

Why similar: Psychedelic 24%, Surreal 22.9%, Abstract 18.6%, Exploration 11.3%, Walking Simulator 10%

She continues to dream. A first-person dream simulator where you explore a corner of a dream.

Why similar: Abstract 34.8%, Surreal 31.2%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Relaxing 5.5%, Atmospheric 4.8%

A simple casual game where you light up floor tiles in a level in order to go to the next level.

Why similar: Psychedelic 36.1%, Casual 16.8%, Exploration 12.4%, 3D 10.8%, Colorful 9.1%

Are you in love and interested in strange games? You're at the right address. A maze game in bright colors, interesting and with small puzzles: a walking simulator where you just need to find a way out.

Why similar: Abstract 39.7%, Walking Simulator 16.4%, Casual 15.5%, Atmospheric 9.9%, First-Person 9.3%

Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.

Why similar: Surreal 28.6%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Exploration 16.6%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Nonlinear 10.9%

A game where you play as a slightly confused bear trying to assemble the ultimate meal no matter who tries to get in your way. Relax and fish, visit the grocery store, escape bureaucracy, and more on your way to achieve enlightenment via sandwich.

Why similar: Psychedelic 39.6%, Exploration 11.7%, Walking Simulator 11.6%, Surreal 8.7%, Colorful 7.3%

A meditative experience that invites players to explore the serene beauty of a living, breathing cemetery as it changes with the seasons.

Why similar: Exploration 23.7%, Walking Simulator 22%, First-Person 10.7%, Colorful 9.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Experience liminal spaces like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Why similar: Surreal 29.8%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Exploration 12.8%, Walking Simulator 11.9%, Atmospheric 7.2%

An indie psychological horror experience about surviving infinity. Navigate an endless expanse of rooms, ascend through various levels, gather items and artifacts, avoid going insane, evade corrupted entities, and see just how deep the realm known as The Backrooms goes.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 25.1%, Surreal 21.3%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Adventure 8.6%, First-Person 7.3%

Syke is a first-person exploratory puzzle game set in a mysterious and beautifully warped reality. You play as an individual making their way through areas of strange geometry; solving puzzles to piece together the story of their love.

Why similar: Psychedelic 34.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Walking Simulator 11.7%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Atmospheric 6.9%

explore a cat notebook

Why similar: Abstract 47.9%, Adventure 15.4%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Exploration 13.8%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Find and retrieve all of your lemons before time runs out!

Why similar: Exploration 25.4%, Walking Simulator 22.6%, Colorful 13%, Casual 11.4%, First-Person 10.1%

In an infinite-looping space, find the traces of the modifications made by kun and break them. You can safely leave by reaching the 2.5th level. There is also an endless mode available, allowing you to push beyond your own limits and see how many levels you can reach.

Why similar: Exploration 30%, Atmospheric 19.9%, First-Person 15.2%, Casual 13.5%, Adventure 9.8%

Tandis is a puzzle game where you discover mind-bending geometric shapes.

Why similar: Psychedelic 39.3%, Abstract 28.1%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Exploration 6%, Casual 3.9%

The UnderGarden is a casual Zen game that challenges players to explore beautiful underground caverns filled with strange life forms, sound, music and plenty of hidden secrets. Casual gamers with an affinity towards puzzle games will enjoy The UnderGarden’s modern exploration quest filled with brain teasing games that combine state of...

Why similar: Exploration 42.5%, Casual 40.7%, Relaxing 16.8%

Fly between incomprehensible galaxies in this experimental micro game!

Why similar: Abstract 23%, Surreal 22.5%, Psychedelic 17.9%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 5.3%

Explore the underground bunker and the surface of the earth in anticipation of a nuclear explosion, finding various items and painting the black and white picture with colored inks.

Why similar: Adventure 39.5%, Casual 29.8%, Colorful 13.6%, Relaxing 12.6%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Surreal 30.2%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Exploration 13.2%, Nonlinear 11%, Atmospheric 10.5%

Aleph is an enigmatic cube, a repository of human lore and simulacra. After the fall of human civilization, as a traveler, you depart from the space station and eventually reach the ruins of the dilapidated city, searching for scattered cubes to read the images and texts left behind by humanity.

Why similar: Abstract 30.1%, Surreal 21.1%, Exploration 14%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Atmospheric 6.3%

Wander through dreamscapes woven from memories of the millennium. Use your camera to freeze tender fragments of days gone by, collecting lost shards of childhood. In an atmosphere where Chinese Dreamcore and Liminal Space intertwine, savor a warmth that feels both familiar and strange.

Why similar: Exploration 22.1%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Adventure 11.7%, First-Person 10.9%