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Games like Light Crawler

If Light Crawler is your kind of game, the closest matches are qb, Age Of Omens and BlueBete — 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 Crawler: A first-person dungeon crawler where you explore a procedurally generated dark world with dungeons. You only have your lantern for light. Don't let it run out as you explore the world and dungeons.

2023ActionIndieAdventureRPGCasual0.99 USDWindowsby Craig Beeson, Jonny Vorderkunz
Light Crawler — Steam game cover

Players who liked Light Crawler also play

Steam players who put hours into Light Crawler 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. qb

    WHY THIS

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

    qb is an open world sandbox adventure game. Play together with your friends or singeplayer. Craft and enchant items. Skill your character. Earn rewards through quests. Help the villagers and let their homeland grow. Don't like the scenery? Modify it to your likings and share it!

    2017ActionIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Age Of Omens

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Light Crawler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Light Crawler.

    Survive in a medieval world filled with tower-defense, magic, exploration, and building. Use a unique directional combat system. Explore a rich world with dynamic weather that impacts gameplay. Uncover the secrets of the land and emerge victorious in this ultimate survival game.

    2019ActionAdventureRPG15.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. BlueBete

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Light Crawler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Light Crawler.

    A gentle non violent walking adventure in surreal landscapes. Read the sign posts to guide you.

    2020AdventureSimulationRPG0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Phantom Containment

    WHY THIS

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

    Survive Helix Planet, a massive open-world containment world filled with dangerous entities, anomaly outbreaks, hostile factions, and hidden secrets. Build, investigate, scavenge, and uncover the truth behind an experiment that never ended.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. The Axis Unseen

    WHY THIS

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

    A heavy metal horror game where you hunt monsters from folklore in an open world. Discover enhanced sense powers, elemental arrows, magic and journals from people who came before you. Almost all of the UI exists in the world itself. Created by one of the developers of Skyrim and Fallout.

    2024ActionIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Eden Island

    WHY THIS

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

    Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Prehistoric Hunt

    WHY THIS

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

    Dive into intense dinosaur hunting adventures with your friends. Complete hunting contracts for Preton Corporation. Gather rewards, improve your equipment and become a master hunter. Are you the hunter or the hunted?

    2020ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Morels: The Hunt

    WHY THIS

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

    Morels is a simulation game about mushroom hunting and wildlife photography. Explore a diverse range of regions spanning across the United States. Increase your hunter and photographer levels by collecting a variety of mushrooms, photographing animals, and completing weekly tasks.

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Light Crawler.

    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 Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Light Crawler.

    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 Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Light Crawler.

    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 Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Crawler.

    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 Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Light Crawler.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Light Crawler.

    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 Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Light Crawler.

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

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Light Crawler on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Light Crawler.

    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. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. 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 Light Crawler.

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Crawler.

    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 ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Light Crawler

How much does Light Crawler cost?
Light Crawler is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Light Crawler?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Light Crawler are qb, Age Of Omens, BlueBete.
Who developed Light Crawler?
Light Crawler was developed by Craig Beeson, Jonny Vorderkunz and published by Craig Beeson.

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 Crawler.

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