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Games like The Lightbringer

If The Lightbringer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tortuga, Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity and SCHiM — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hidden collectibles reward curiosity, nostalgic 90s inspired visuals and atmospheric. 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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About The Lightbringer: The Lightbringer is a poetic adventure/puzzle platformer with light combat elements, set in a beautiful world claimed by a vile corruption. Guided by your sister’s spirit, you must prevail where she could not. Cleanse the corruption, become The Lightbringer.

2021ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDWindows · Linuxby Rock Square Thunder
The Lightbringer — Steam game cover
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Hidden collectibles reward curiosityLight based progression feels thematicNostalgic 90s inspired visualsAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

Players who liked The Lightbringer also play

Steam players who put hours into The Lightbringer 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.

  1. Tortuga

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    The goal is is to explore the island and collect all the fruits without dying. You have to be perfect and it' nearly impossible. You have to be precise and it's really difficult. You have to have a lot of patience and it's demanding. But definitely work hard.

    2021IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Second-strongest match for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    Evolution concludes in this expressive platformer. Movement is your power, transformation is your gift. Discover sites and evolve as you explore an organic underworld open-world, Earth looming in the distance...

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. SCHiM

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzles and an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Third-strongest match for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    SCHiM is a game about jumping from shadow to shadow in a relaxing and lively environment. This 3D platformer takes elements of light, shadow & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual16.45 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Super Sami Roll

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with The Lightbringer.

    Ranked #4 for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    Sami’s on a mission to rescue his friend Vera and he needs your help! Join him in this exhilarating, colorful 3D platformer and fast roll, air-grapple, and jump to save her!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Ranked #5 for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    Embark on a magical journey in Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed! Shape your adventure with the stroke of a brush and transform Wasteland as Mickey Mouse in this beautifully recreated 3D platformer.

    2024ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Tinykin

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Ranked #6 for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Demon Turf: Neon Splash

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Ranked #7 for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    Maintain a constant momentum of precision platforming through surreal worlds, filled with bright neon colors, and enjoy the intoxicating combination of 2D & 3D art! Explore and hunt collectables or knuckle-down and master satisfying mechanics to compete for the best times across the world!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Omno

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Ranked #8 for The Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure18.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Lightbringer at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightbringer.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Lightbringer.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Lightbringer.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightbringer.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Lightbringer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightbringer.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 The Lightbringer.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 The Lightbringer.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 The Lightbringer.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightbringer.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightbringer.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    Evolution concludes in this expressive platformer. Movement is your power, transformation is your gift. Discover sites and evolve as you explore an organic underworld open-world, Earth looming in the distance...

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. SCHiM

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzles and an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    SCHiM is a game about jumping from shadow to shadow in a relaxing and lively environment. This 3D platformer takes elements of light, shadow & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.

    2024IndieAdventureCasual16.45 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Lightbringer.

    Embark on a magical journey in Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed! Shape your adventure with the stroke of a brush and transform Wasteland as Mickey Mouse in this beautifully recreated 3D platformer.

    2024ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tinykin

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Lightbringer.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Lightbringer.

    Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to bring Milo back to his home planet and back to normal size!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Lightbringer

How much does The Lightbringer cost?
The Lightbringer is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Lightbringer?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lightbringer are Tortuga, Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity, SCHiM.
Who developed The Lightbringer?
The Lightbringer was developed by Rock Square Thunder and published by Silver Lining Interactive.

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 The Lightbringer.

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