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Games like Light Pursuer

If Light Pursuer is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Directionless Cycle, SimPlaE and Minimalist Sudoku — 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.

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About Light Pursuer: The map will be displayed only when there is light, otherwise it will be dark and the player can only go to the place with light. The player can push the lighthouse to illuminate other parts of the map, so as to explore different parts of the map.

2021StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDWindowsby Yang Sun
Light Pursuer — Steam game cover

Players who liked Light Pursuer also play

Steam players who put hours into Light Pursuer 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. A Directionless Cycle

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    2D Sokoban game where you explore a game that's slowly degrading, while you control multiple tiles with different directions at the same time.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. SimPlaE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    SimPlaE is a platformer played as a simulation. Instead of direct control, place blocks to design a path to reach the destination. Among countless options, only one is the most optimized solution. Solve puzzles, visit various platformer worlds, and encounter new rules and stories.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Minimalist Sudoku

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    A customizable Sudoku game that allows you to enjoy the joy of solving puzzles alone, as well as the fun of collaborating with others.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. SnailQuest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    A Puzzle Game Based On 2048 Move Style

    2022StrategyIndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Panda Go

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    This is a turn-based board puzzle game in which a variety of unexpected levels are combined through a simple guard mechanism! You need to skillfully operate your character to pass through guards and various obstacles to finally reach the end!

    2024StrategyIndieCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Shift Chess

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    This is a chess variant in which players can “control the board” as a move action. The game supports online play, matches against AI, and local analysis.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Brix

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    Think it, build it, and watch it break. Brix is a physics-based engineering sandbox where you tackle impossible challenges with your own custom creations. From battlebots to earthquake-proof towers..

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Voxel Digger

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Light Pursuer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    Voxel Digger is a logic puzzle puzzle game. Players need to fill the squares on the matrix to solve the puzzle. Players need to complete the puzzles of each layer to restore the original face of the 3D object, just like slowly carving a stone into a work of art.

    2022StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light Pursuer.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Light Pursuer.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light Pursuer.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light Pursuer.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Pursuer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Light Pursuer.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Yang Sun

Other recommendable Steam games by Yang Sun, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Power of Love

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yang Sun, the studio behind Light Pursuer. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    This is a novel puzzle game. It creatively asks you to control two people simultaneously. The game consists of three chapters and the levels become more and more difficult. Its a perfect game to exercise your brain.

    2015StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Wisdom of War

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yang Sun, the studio behind Light Pursuer. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    Wisdom of War is a real-time strategy game with unique style. Different from general real-time strategy game, the game only needs to operate a hero for various activities. This greatly reduces the demands for hands’ operation speed in traditional real-time strategy game so that players can focus on strategy application.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Master of ABC

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yang Sun, the studio behind Light Pursuer. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    A good game played in a relaxing mode and can help you to learn English or Chinese.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Finger Guessing King

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yang Sun, the studio behind Light Pursuer. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    A kind of leisure competitive game similar to guessing boxing, which has the element of luck and tests the wisdom and strategy of players.

    2020StrategyIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Ultimate Demolition

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yang Sun, the studio behind Light Pursuer. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    This is a challenging leisure puzzle game. Players need to make all the balls reach the target point in a limited time, so as to stop the countdown of the time bomb.

    2021IndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Express Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yang Sun, the studio behind Light Pursuer. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Pursuer.

    This is a challenging leisure strategy game. Players have to go to different places to get express delivery, and send them to different destinations to get the corresponding reward. Players need to get the required reward in a limited time.

    2021IndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Alien Battlefield

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Yang Sun, the studio behind Light Pursuer. Shares Strategy and Indie with Light Pursuer.

    Fight in the dynamic 2D strategy game Alien Battlefield! The game has two modes available: real-time strategy mode and chess game mode. Explore the different abilities of units, amass resources, deploy units and try to use them intelligently to win!

    2023StrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Light Pursuer

How much does Light Pursuer cost?
Light Pursuer is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Light Pursuer?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Light Pursuer are A Directionless Cycle, SimPlaE, Minimalist Sudoku.
Who developed Light Pursuer?
Light Pursuer was developed by Yang Sun.

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 Light Pursuer.

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