Games like Candle Knight
If Candle Knight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement, UNSEAM and Vínculo — 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 Candle Knight: Never let your light go out. Wield a powerful flame, overcome menacing creatures and explore the shadows of a ruined castle in this compelling 2.5D action adventure platformer which features a unique dynamic difficulty system.
Players who liked Candle Knight also play
Steam players who put hours into Candle Knight 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.
Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
WHY THIS
Top pick for Candle Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Candle Knight.
Unravel the dark history of the Bloodstained universe and explore a hauntingly immersive 16th-century England steeped in a 2.5D gothic atmosphere, enthralling players in strategic battles, crafting, and exploration across a sprawling, cursed land.
UNSEAM
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Candle Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
An action platformer set in a world stitched shut. Ride the cracks your attacks leave for high-speed movement, carve terrain that falls the way you cut it, and journey to recover the memories of a girl who woke from her coffin.
Vínculo
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Candle Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
Embark yourself on an adventure through the Marble Palace and uncover the plentiful secrets it hides! Explore magnificent views and fight through the hostile halls of the palace, all while making use of the innovative plane change mechanics!
Well Dweller
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Candle Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania, full of charming characters living in a wretched kingdom. Play as Glimmer - a tiny bird armed with a matchstick - who must burn the wicked queen to save his family.
Crimson Spine
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Candle Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
A Metroidvania set in a dark fantasy world where Raed, a knight resurrected under mysterious circumstances, uses her new heart as a weapon to recover her lost memories.
PhantomGaze : Omni-sight
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Candle Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
A 2D Metroidvania where you control two characters at once. A blind swordsman fights in melee, while a spirit archer provides ranged support. Master parry rhythms and exploit weaknesses using the bestiary. Uncover the secrets of a world built on Asian aesthetics through a stranger's eyes.
GRIME
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Candle Knight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Candle Knight at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Candle Knight.
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 ~67% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Candle Knight.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Candle Knight.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Candle Knight.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Candle Knight.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Candle Knight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
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.
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 Candle Knight.
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 Action and Adventure with Candle Knight.
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 Action and Indie with Candle Knight.
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 Candle Knight.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Candle Knight.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Candle Knight.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Candle Knight.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Frequently asked about Candle Knight
- Does Candle Knight run on Steam Deck?
- Candle Knight is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Candle Knight cost?
- Candle Knight is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Candle Knight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Candle Knight are Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement, UNSEAM, Vínculo.
- Who developed Candle Knight?
- Candle Knight was developed by Dracma Studios.
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