Games like Dark Light
If Dark Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are Re:Touring, Reality Rifts and Time's Prison — 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 Dark Light: Dark Light is a single-player 3D puzzle game. Levels present physical obstacles that must be conquered by moving beams of light that create solid platforms, allowing the player to maneuverer themselves towards the exit.
Players who liked Dark Light also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Light 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.
Re:Touring
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Light.
Re:Touring is a first-person puzzle game in which you'll explore the abandoned Luoni Energy Competence Center. Using a retro-style computer, you'll create color patterns to progress through the levels.
Reality Rifts
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Light.
3D platformer with a portal gun! Solve puzzles, exciting levels, become a master of portal travel.
Time's Prison
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Light.
A pirate who is burning with love for treasure finally finds the treasure island on the map. However, the pirate has puzzles to solve and adventures to go through. The story of the game starts right here.
Quantum Conundrum
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dark Light.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
The Ball
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Light.
As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Light.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Repressed
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Light.
Play as a shadow that’s on a journey inside your mind. Find answers to the questions bothering you. Navigate the maze that is your memory, and ease your mind in the process.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Light.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Light at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Light.
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 ~50% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie 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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Light.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Light.
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 ~50% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Light.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Light.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dark Light.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dark Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Light.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Dark Light.
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 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 Indie 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 Indie and Adventure with Dark Light.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Light.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Dark Light.
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.
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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.
Re:Touring
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Light.
Re:Touring is a first-person puzzle game in which you'll explore the abandoned Luoni Energy Competence Center. Using a retro-style computer, you'll create color patterns to progress through the levels.
Bionic Bay
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Light.
A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.
Frequently asked about Dark Light
- How much does Dark Light cost?
- Dark Light is listed on Steam at 9.99 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 Re:Touring, Reality Rifts, Time's Prison.
- Who developed Dark Light?
- Dark Light was developed by b2studios.
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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