Games like Lamplighter
If Lamplighter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ancient Russian Life Simulator, Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow and Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete 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.
Get personalized picks →About Lamplighter: It’s 1807 and you are a lamplighter, responsible for keeping the street lights of London lit. Lamplighter is a story-driven puzzle game, set amidst the magical early 1800s when gas street lamps began to turn night into day and provoke people's imaginations, hopes, and fears.
Players who liked Lamplighter also play
Steam players who put hours into Lamplighter 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.
Ancient Russian Life Simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Lamplighter.
The most realistic simulator of the life of ancient Rus during the war with lizards! A historical saga about the greatness of our ancestors, bravely fighting the green plague that outnumbered them!
Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
DAEMON MASQUERADE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
An anime-inspired supernatural detective game. Uncover the identities and powers of your adversaries using a conspiracy board full of evidence.
Slice of Sea
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
The Big Con
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Hustle your way across ‘90s America as a runaway teen con artist. Choose how to make your scratch as you don disguises, pick pockets, and rip people off in this comedic crime-filled adventure. Experience the totally rad '90s in all its plaid and payphone glory!
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Lamplighter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lamplighter at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Lamplighter.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Lamplighter.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Lamplighter.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Lamplighter.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Lamplighter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Lamplighter.
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 Adventure with Lamplighter.
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 Indie with Lamplighter.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lamplighter.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
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 and Casual with Lamplighter.
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 Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Hidden Ocean Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Hidden Ocean Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Marcella Moon: Secret on the Hill
WHY THIS
Another title from Hidden Ocean Games, the studio behind Lamplighter. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Follow amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a famous writer.
Marcella Moon: Saboteurs on the River
WHY THIS
Another title from Hidden Ocean Games, the studio behind Lamplighter. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Play as amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to investigate a series of sabotage incidents on the Louisiana bayou.
Marcella Moon: Curse of the Black Cat
WHY THIS
Another title from Hidden Ocean Games, the studio behind Lamplighter. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Play as amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to investigate a cursed black cat statue that has been terrorizing a local theater.
Marcella Moon: Killer at the Cove
WHY THIS
Another title from Hidden Ocean Games, the studio behind Lamplighter. Shares Adventure with Lamplighter.
Play as amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to investigate a murder in a coastal California town.
Marcella Moon: Four Are Watching
WHY THIS
Another title from Hidden Ocean Games, the studio behind Lamplighter. Shares Indie with Lamplighter.
Play as amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to solve the cold case of her father's murder.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Expelled!
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
The Big Con
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
Hustle your way across ‘90s America as a runaway teen con artist. Choose how to make your scratch as you don disguises, pick pockets, and rip people off in this comedic crime-filled adventure. Experience the totally rad '90s in all its plaid and payphone glory!
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplighter.
The classic multi-award winning adventure "Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars" returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid tourist George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Frequently asked about Lamplighter
- How much does Lamplighter cost?
- Lamplighter is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lamplighter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lamplighter are Ancient Russian Life Simulator, Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow, Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition.
- Who developed Lamplighter?
- Lamplighter was developed by Hidden Ocean Games.
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