Games like Dark Light
If Dark Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are System Purge, The Last Faith and POWERNAUT DECAY — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cyberpunk aesthetic oozes atmosphere, atmospheric and bleak. 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 Dark Light: Dark Light is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action-platformer with intense hack'n slash combat. Explore the unknown, enhance your abilities with cyberwares, and face off against supernatural entities to seal the Dark Void and end the eternal darkness.
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System Purge
WHY THIS
Shares precision platforming and an atmospheric mood with Dark Light.
Top pick for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.
The Last Faith
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Light.
Second-strongest match for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
POWERNAUT DECAY
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
A tough exploration-based platformer with souls-like elements.
Corrupt
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Survive in a dark and atmospheric action-platformer characterized by environments full of mystery and fearsome enemies.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Dark Light.
Ranked #5 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Among the Waves
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
A 2.5D metroidvania with the freedom of an immersive sim. Every fight and every path can be approached differently: through combat, stealth, or using the world’s mechanics. The story unfolds in a world where Orthodox aesthetics meet Soviet brutalism and traditional woodcraft
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Light.
Ranked #7 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dark Light
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Dark Light.
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.
Shadow Complex Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Light.
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Light.
ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Light.
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Light.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Robot terminator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
This is a third person action adventure game，The player is on an island full of monsters，Players can explore freely in bad weather，The player must kill the monster or avoid the monster's attack and survive as long as possible.
Terminator 2D: NO FATE
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Experience the thrill of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with arcade action & pixel-perfect graphics! In this unique story blending iconic scenes from the movie with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
Alien
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Alien is a visual novel exclusively for adults! This story is about a guy who has been dreaming of having sex with an alien woman for a very long time. At some point, this dream comes true and the guy finally fucked an alien woman!
Castle of Vania
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Invade the castle of the powerful Vampire Vania, face several difficult, exciting and sensual challenges to end this reign of horror and orgies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Light at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Light.
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 ~59% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Light.
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.
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.
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 Dark Light.
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 with Dark Light.
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 Adventure with Dark Light.
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.
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 Adventure with Dark Light.
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 Dark Light.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Dark Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dark Light.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Nine Sols
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Light.
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
Frequently asked about Dark Light
- Is Dark Light verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dark Light 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 Dark Light cost?
- Dark Light is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Light are System Purge, The Last Faith, POWERNAUT DECAY.
- Who developed Dark Light?
- Dark Light was developed by Mirari&Co..
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 Dark Light.
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