Games like Deadlight
If Deadlight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadlight: Director's Cut, Isolated Island: After the flood and I Am Alive — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its art style is striking, game is relaxing and parkour feels weighty. 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 →Deadlight is a 2012 post-apocalyptic side-scrolling action-adventure indie game from Tequila Works, S.L. that challenges players with a blend of parkour, platform puzzles, and combat encounters across cinematic narrative sequences. Set in a grim world, the experience emphasizes environmental interaction and room-to-room transitions as players navigate atmospheric environments. Reviewers highlight the story contains a twist, while players describe the art style as striking and the parkour as feeling weighty and responsive. The solo-only campaign is short and challenging, with a contemplative mood noted across player feedback. Deadlight is available for $14.99 USD and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck, carrying a 78 Metacritic score and a 69% positive rating from 4,035 Steam reviews.
About Deadlight: “Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se
Players who liked Deadlight also play
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Deadlight: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Top pick for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadlight.
A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.
Isolated Island: After the flood
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
Survive in a world drowned by disaster. Explore by day, hide by night, fight zombies, scavenge resources, build your shelter, and trade with other factions. Your survival, your strategy.
I Am Alive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Third-strongest match for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadlight.
I Am Alive casts the player as a lone survivor in a believable, dark and insecure post-apocalyptic world.
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Ranked #4 for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deadlight.
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deadlight.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Ranked #6 for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadlight.
Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.
KUNAI
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Ranked #7 for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.
Ninja Pizza Girl
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Ranked #8 for Deadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Deadlight
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.
INSIDE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Reviewers of Deadlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Deadly Rain
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deadlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
Deadly Rain is a survival horror FPS game that puts you in a terrifying fight for survival against hordes of scary mutants in a rainy, abandoned village. Find and manage resources to stay alive in the worst and most unexpected situations.
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with Deadlight.
Reviewers of Deadlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadlight.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
FAR: Lone Sails
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Reviewers of Deadlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Little Nightmares
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Reviewers of Deadlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Deadlight.
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
My Friend Pedro
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Deadlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Reviewers of Deadlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deadlight at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadlight.
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 Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
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 Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadlight.
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 Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
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 Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deadlight.
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 Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadlight.
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
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Priced ~47% under Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deadlight.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Deadlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deadlight.
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.
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 Deadlight.
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 Deadlight.
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 Deadlight.
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 Deadlight.
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 Deadlight.
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 Deadlight.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
State of Decay
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Deadlight.
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Deadlight.
Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.
KUNAI
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
KUNAI is a quirky, fast-paced action platformer. You play as Tabby, a tablet who joins the fight against a robot uprising. Use your kunai and ninja parkour skills to stop Lemonkus, the A.I.-gone-evil that almost wiped out all human life.
Ninja Pizza Girl
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Deadlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Deadlight.
Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.
Frequently asked about Deadlight
- Does Deadlight run on Steam Deck?
- Deadlight 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 Deadlight cost?
- Deadlight is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Deadlight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deadlight are Deadlight: Director's Cut, Isolated Island: After the flood, I Am Alive.
- Who developed Deadlight?
- Deadlight was developed by Tequila Works, S.L. and published by Xbox Game Studios.
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