Games like Pillars of Light
If Pillars of Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Gods Hate Me, Souls Divided and Runa Illustra — 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 Pillars of Light: Pillars of Light is a first person action / puzzle game where you will have to continue what your family have done since the beginning of times : protect the world from shadows and make friend with Utu, the light god.
Players who liked Pillars of Light also play
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My Gods Hate Me
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Pillars of Light.
Escape room, puzzle box, first person adventure game where you explore a mysterious island and summon its Gods.
Souls Divided
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Second-strongest match for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
A single-player puzzle game where you divide your soul into two forms, each perceiving a different dimension. Switch between them, manipulate ancient instruments, and solve layered puzzles across overlapping realities in a mysterious astral world left behind by a failed civilization.
Runa Illustra
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
The pen is your magic wand! Draw runes to cast various spells and solve intricate puzzles in this first-person puzzle adventure, set in a world trapped within a magical book.
THE NAUGHTY LIST CURSE
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Ranked #4 for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
Let the elf guide you through the world of magic where everything you think you know will change. Fight against the darkness and help to give Christmas back its sparkle. You can run and you can hide, but can you save Christmas?
Escape First Alchemist ⚗️
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Ranked #5 for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
First-person escape game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 people. Solve riddles of a reclusive alchemist that trapped you in his workshop. Brew potions and overcome challenges as he laughs at your failures and makes light of your successes...But what if things are not what they seem?
Faraday Protocol
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Ranked #6 for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.
Curse of Dragon Mountains 2: The Lair
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Ranked #7 for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
Dark shadows are rising once again! Spirits are restless! For he has awaken! Return to Dragon Mountains with Mina and her spirited companion Malik and defeat the evil spirit in this compelling hidden-object adventure where fantasy, folklore, and mystery intertwine.
Vasilisa and Baba Yaga
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Ranked #8 for Pillars of Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
An adventure game based on the Russian folktale "Vasilisa the Beautiful". A scary story about the journey to the mistress of the forbidden forest for magical powers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pillars of Light at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
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
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Priced ~44% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~44% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~44% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~89% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~67% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~44% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~44% under Pillars of Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Pillars of Light.
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 Adventure with Pillars of Light.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pillars of Light.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
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!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pillars of Light.
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.
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Frequently asked about Pillars of Light
- How much does Pillars of Light cost?
- Pillars of Light is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pillars of Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pillars of Light are My Gods Hate Me, Souls Divided, Runa Illustra.
- Who developed Pillars of Light?
- Pillars of Light was developed by Narom42, Trixten Studio and published by Narom42, Trixten Studio.
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 Pillars of Light.
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