Games like Gensokyo Night Festival
If Gensokyo Night Festival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Touhou Luna Nights, Rabi-Ribi and Glimmer in Mirror — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its unique density manipulation abilities, vibrant pixel art style and nostalgic. 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 Gensokyo Night Festival: Gensokyo Night Festival is a 2D action-exploration game set in the world of Gensokyo.Join Suika Ibuki as she wreaks havoc throughout Gensokyo against the backdrop of the festival held at Hakurei Shrine.
Players who liked Gensokyo Night Festival also play
Steam players who put hours into Gensokyo Night Festival 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.
Touhou Luna Nights
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Top pick for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action. Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.
Rabi-Ribi
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...
Glimmer in Mirror
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Glimmer in Mirror is a 2D story-rich action shooting game. Play as Shiro in a collapsed world, to meet various unique NPCs and monsters, and gradually uncover the truth of the world through a gripping story.
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
"Momodora: Moonlit Farewell" is the latest installment in the Momodora series. Join Momo, High Priestess of the village of Koho, as she embarks on a divine mission to save her people from imminent destruction at the hands of the demon hordes summoned by a malevolent bellringer.
TEVI
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Embark on an epic action-adventure as you slash, dash, and combo your way through a vast, vibrant world. Explore and uncover hidden secrets. Customize your build to triumph in spectacular boss battles. Experience a tale of mystery, magic, and mayhem in TEVI, a bullet hell metroidvania!
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Nyaruru Fishy Fight
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Gensokyo Night Festival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gensokyo Night Festival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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 ~62% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Gensokyo Night Festival.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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 ~62% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Gensokyo Night Festival.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Gensokyo Night Festival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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?
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 and Casual with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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 with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gensokyo Night Festival.
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 Gensokyo Night Festival.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gensokyo Night Festival.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Gensokyo Night Festival.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from WSS playground
Other recommendable Steam games by WSS playground, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
WHY THIS
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Touhou Luna Nights
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action. Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.
Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
A 2D Metroidvania-style game developed under the supervision of Ryo Mizuno, depicting the story of Deedlit and the events leading up to Record of Lodoss War: Diadem of the Covenant. Use a variety of weapons and spirit powers to unravel the mystery of the labyrinth.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily
WHY THIS
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily is a turn-based strategy game. Framed for murdering the Emperor, villainess Scarlet and Lily, fight the Empire as the first Streamers in history. Capture every enemy and turn them into allies for a happy ending... Or execute everyone and become the Demon Queen!
BLADECHIMERA
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Explore a dark and sinister Osaka as the Demon Hunter Shin. Battle demons, regain lost skills, and uncover the truth of your forgotten past in this exciting occult-inspired cyberpunk metroidvania.
DRAINUS
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
"NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net" is a typing game in which you enter internet lingo in a call-and-response format with a girl (OMGkawaiiAngel) who has a strong need for approval.
Boyhood's End
WHY THIS
Another title from WSS playground, the studio behind Gensokyo Night Festival. Shares Early Access with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Boyhood's End is an adventure horror game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe, and Campenella, the delinquent genius, and their journey on the galactic railroad regarding the "human" and "inhuman".
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Rabi-Ribi
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...
Glimmer in Mirror
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Glimmer in Mirror is a 2D story-rich action shooting game. Play as Shiro in a collapsed world, to meet various unique NPCs and monsters, and gradually uncover the truth of the world through a gripping story.
Nyaruru Fishy Fight
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gensokyo Night Festival.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Frequently asked about Gensokyo Night Festival
- Does Gensokyo Night Festival run on Steam Deck?
- Gensokyo Night Festival is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Gensokyo Night Festival cost?
- Gensokyo Night Festival is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gensokyo Night Festival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gensokyo Night Festival are Touhou Luna Nights, Rabi-Ribi, Glimmer in Mirror.
- Who developed Gensokyo Night Festival?
- Gensokyo Night Festival was developed by WSS playground, tea_basira and published by WSS playground.
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