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Games like Beyond the Long Night

If Beyond the Long Night is your kind of game, the closest matches are Revita, Slimekeep and Ants Took My Eyeball — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration drives narrative, puzzles unlock permanent upgrades 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 Beyond the Long Night: Explore a whimsical underground world whilst being chased by a mysterious corrupting force in this charming twin-stick action roguelike! Befriend loveable characters, fend off enemies with chaotic abilities, and uncover the secrets of this subterranean kingdom caught in a time loop.

2023ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 76Windows · macOSby Noisy Head Games
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Steam players who put hours into Beyond the Long Night 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. Revita

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Top pick for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!

    2022ActionIndieAdventure16.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Slimekeep

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Second-strongest match for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    In a world becoming corrupted by the evil Slime King, KILL or CAPTURE various slimes to grow stronger and save Slimetopia! Venture through procedurally generated levels in this fast-paced roguelike, if you're tough enough to not get slimed...

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ants Took My Eyeball

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Third-strongest match for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Doomsday Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Shares meta progression and an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Ranked #4 for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

    2023ActionIndie15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. HyperParasite

    WHY THIS

    Shares twin stick shooting, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Ranked #5 for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Ziggurat

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Ranked #6 for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!

    2014ActionIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Dunjungle

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Ranked #7 for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Neon Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with Beyond the Long Night.

    Ranked #8 for Beyond the Long Night fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Beyond the Long Night

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Binding of Isaac

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Reviewers of Beyond the Long Night cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Spelunky

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Reviewers of Beyond the Long Night cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

    2013Indie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. TUNIC

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Reviewers of Beyond the Long Night cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Beyond the Long Night.

    Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

    2022ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. ANIMAL WELL

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Reviewers of Beyond the Long Night cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Hades

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Beyond the Long Night cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

    2020ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Beyond the Long Night at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    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 ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Action with Beyond the Long Night.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Beyond the Long Night.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Action with Beyond the Long Night.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Beyond the Long Night on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 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 Beyond the Long Night.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  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 Beyond the Long Night.

    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 Beyond the Long Night.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    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 ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck 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. Ants Took My Eyeball

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure6.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Doomsday Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Shares meta progression and an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

    2023ActionIndie15.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. HyperParasite

    WHY THIS

    Shares twin stick shooting, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Ziggurat

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!

    2014ActionIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Dunjungle

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Beyond the Long Night.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Neon Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation with Beyond the Long Night.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond the Long Night.

    Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Beyond the Long Night

Is Beyond the Long Night verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Beyond the Long Night is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Beyond the Long Night cost?
Beyond the Long Night is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Beyond the Long Night?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beyond the Long Night are Revita, Slimekeep, Ants Took My Eyeball.
Who developed Beyond the Long Night?
Beyond the Long Night was developed by Noisy Head Games and published by Yogscast Games.

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 Beyond the Long Night.

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