Games like Northern Lights
If Northern Lights is your kind of game, the closest matches are ASTRAL, Monochroma and Transient: Extended Edition — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Northern Lights 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.
ASTRAL
WHY THIS
Top pick for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.
Monochroma
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
Transient: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Inner Chains
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Northern Lights.
An FPS horror game set in a surreal, dark and deadly biomechanical world never seen before. Humankind is just a small part of a hostile universe. Want to survive? Discover its secrets.
Homesick
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
>observer_
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
Year Walk
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Northern Lights at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Northern Lights.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Northern Lights.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Northern Lights.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 Northern Lights.
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 Action and Adventure with Northern Lights.
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 Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
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 Northern Lights.
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 Northern Lights.
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 Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Northern Lights.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Other recommendable Steam games by DimleTeam, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
A SECOND BEFORE US
WHY THIS
Another title from DimleTeam, the studio behind Northern Lights. Shares Indie and Adventure with Northern Lights.
They have no names, only serial numbers. They have no freedom, no memories from the past. You are one of them. Explore the last center of civilization on a shattered Earth to understand what is really going on.
BLIK
WHY THIS
Another title from DimleTeam, the studio behind Northern Lights. Shares Action and Indie with Northern Lights.
BLIK is a fascinating spatial first-person puzzle. You are a student at one of the best educational institutions in the world! Сomplete the study program course by solving all the puzzles and passing the final test! Be smart and diligent! Become the pride of the Academy!
Frequently asked about Northern Lights
- How much does Northern Lights cost?
- Northern Lights is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Northern Lights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Northern Lights are ASTRAL, Monochroma, Transient: Extended Edition.
- Who developed Northern Lights?
- Northern Lights was developed by DimleTeam.
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 Northern Lights.
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