10 games similar to Soma, a Indie, Adventure, Puzzle game, drawn from IGDB's similarity data. Each pick below notes the genres it shares with Soma.
01Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games blend mystery and horror through investigation and exploration, requiring you to piece together truth from environmental clues and encounters with hostile forces. Soma's underwater facility and Murdered's Salem setting share an atmospheric, isolating quality where you uncover dark secrets while avoiding or outsmarting threats. Each game emphasizes puzzle-solving and stealth over combat, grounding their horror in existential dread rather than action.
02Shares AdventureIndiePuzzleBoth games are first-person horror adventures from Frictional Games that emphasize stealth and evasion over combat. They share an atmosphere of dread built through darkness, audio logs, and environmental storytelling, with corpses and gruesome imagery reinforcing the sense of decay. A Machine for Pigs matches Soma's focus on mystery and survival, requiring you to navigate hostile spaces while uncovering the truth through exploration and collected documents.
03Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games strand you in a claustrophobic sci-fi facility where audio logs and scattered documents reveal what went wrong. Prey shares Soma's atmospheric first-person perspective and reliance on stealth and puzzle-solving to survive hostile encounters you cannot fight directly. Each game uses darkness, corpses, and countdown timers to build dread while forcing you to piece together the station's secrets through environmental storytelling.
Games like Prey →
04Shares AdventureIndieBoth Soma and Outlast trap you in hostile environments where stealth and evasion replace combat. Each uses first-person perspective and darkness to build dread as you navigate corrupted spaces filled with grotesque threats. Soma explores identity through science fiction; Outlast examines it through body horror and human experimentation. Both games rely on environmental storytelling and context-sensitive interactions to uncover their mysteries.
Games like Outlast →
05Shares AdventurePuzzleBoth games blend stealth and sci-fi mystery through first-person exploration of hostile environments where direct combat is avoided. Soma traps you underwater at PATHOS-II uncovering identity questions; Mankind Divided sends you into a segregated 2029 investigating corporate conspiracy. Each uses audio logs, terminals, and corpses to build atmosphere and narrative, while countdown timers and surveillance mechanics create tension as you navigate spaces where outsmarting enemies matters more than fighting them.
Games like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided →
06Shares AdventureIndiePuzzleBoth games pair atmospheric first-person exploration with mystery investigation in isolated, darkened settings where you uncover truth through environmental clues and corpses. Each emphasizes puzzle-solving and context-sensitive interaction over combat, building horror through atmosphere and discovery rather than action. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter shares SOMA's focus on piecing together a disturbing narrative by examining your surroundings and confronting the consequences of past violence.
Games like The Vanishing of Ethan Carter →
07Shares AdventureIndiePuzzleBoth games center on atmospheric horror grounded in psychological vulnerability rather than combat. SOMA traps you underwater facing inhuman threats you cannot fight; The Cat Lady follows a desperate woman with no weapons confronting ruthless predators. Each explores survival through avoidance and moral choice, with darkness and corpses marking your path through stories about identity and what it means to endure.
08Shares PuzzleBoth games weave science fiction horror through audio logs and environmental storytelling, using backtracking to uncover a facility's dark secrets. Singularity shares Soma's first-person perspective and atmospheric dread, layering plot twists with scripted encounters that create tension without relying on direct combat. Each game emphasizes puzzle-solving and exploration over action, building horror through isolation and the gradual revelation of catastrophe.
09Shares AdventureBoth games cast you as a first-person protagonist navigating hostile environments where stealth and evasion matter more than combat. Soma's underwater facility and Dying Light's infected city share a survival-horror atmosphere where you're hunted rather than the hunter, forcing you to outsmart threats or flee. Each game uses time pressure (Soma's countdown, Dying Light's day-night cycle) to intensify dread and constrain your options.
Games like Dying Light →
10Shares AdventureIndiePuzzleBoth games use first-person exploration and puzzle-solving to probe questions about consciousness and identity. The Talos Principle shares SOMA's philosophical science-fiction framework, presenting you with moral choices that challenge what it means to be human or alive. Audio logs and environmental storytelling ground the narrative in each world, while both games employ darkness and atmospheric design to create a sense of isolation and unease.
Games like The Talos Principle →
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10 games similar to Soma: Murdered: Soul Suspect, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Prey, Outlast, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Cat Lady, Singularity.
Most of these games share Adventure, Action, Horror, Puzzle and Stealth with Soma, based on IGDB's similarity data. Each pick has a short note explaining what it has in common with Soma.