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Games like After Light Fades

If After Light Fades is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jelly Is Sticky, Bloxpath and Linelith — 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 After Light Fades: Solve, evolve, and let go. In this mystical, magical sokoban puzzle journey, each artefact you master must eventually be left behind. Explore seven emotionally resonant fantasy worlds, casting away artefacts tied to grief, memory, and transformation.

2025IndieAdventure14.99 USDWindows · macOS · Linuxby Orchid of Redemption
After Light Fades — Steam game cover

Players who liked After Light Fades also play

Steam players who put hours into After Light Fades 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. Jelly Is Sticky

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.

    2022StrategyIndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Bloxpath

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    A minimalist roll playing puzzle game. About 10 unique puzzle mechanics, around 200 puzzles, and satisfying smooth procedural animations.

    2025StrategyIndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Linelith

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.

    2022StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sokobond

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

    2014Indie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Altered

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.

    2021StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. When The Past Was Around

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Light Fades.

    When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. VIVIDLOPE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Rapid gravity arcade action! Dash! Spin! Slam! Paint!

    2023ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for After Light Fades fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    An adorable bite-sized adventure from the creators of A Monster’s Expedition - explore the facility, avoid the live electricity, and repair the malfunctioning reactor.

    2025Indie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    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 After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    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. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Light Fades.

    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 ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    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 ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Light Fades.

    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 ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    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 ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under After Light Fades on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Light Fades.

    Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

    WHY THIS

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

    USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

    2025IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Orchid of Redemption

Other recommendable Steam games by Orchid of Redemption, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Joon Shining

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orchid of Redemption, the studio behind After Light Fades. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Light Fades.

    Master the elements. Explore mystical worlds. Harness ancient powers. Joon Shining is an enchanted golf-like platformer with a fantasy twist. Use magic to bend physics, influence environments, and make impossible shots, as you puzzle your way through a strange & mythic multiverse

    2023ActionSportsIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Dream of the Star Haven

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orchid of Redemption, the studio behind After Light Fades. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Light Fades.

    A giant-leap 1st person platforming journey through islands in the sky! Recover your stolen body parts, gaining new powers for each part you find. Delve into the strange gilded-cage secrets of the conscious place known as Star Haven

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Pelican Empyrean

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Orchid of Redemption, the studio behind After Light Fades. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Food is love! In this fantastical roguelike card game share the magic of abundance by cooking delicious meals for all who come to Pelican's kitchen.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

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

  1. Altered

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.

    2021StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. When The Past Was Around

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with After Light Fades.

    When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. VIVIDLOPE

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with After Light Fades.

    Rapid gravity arcade action! Dash! Spin! Slam! Paint!

    2023ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about After Light Fades

How much does After Light Fades cost?
After Light Fades is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to After Light Fades?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside After Light Fades are Jelly Is Sticky, Bloxpath, Linelith.
Who developed After Light Fades?
After Light Fades was developed by Orchid of Redemption and published by Lamplight Forest.

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 After Light Fades.

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