Games like Retrace the Light
If Retrace the Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are Maid of Salvation, Runic Curse Remastered and The Goddess's Will — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative integration of mechanics, hidden gem indie title and punchy combat. 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 Retrace the Light: Dive into the immersive world of Retrace the Light, a captivating 2.5D action-adventure game centered around the "Spatial Retracing" feature. Assume the role of an Enforcer working for a super AI in a futuristic world, exploring the depths of human consciousness and healing their emotional wounds.
Players who liked Retrace the Light also play
Steam players who put hours into Retrace the Light 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.
Maid of Salvation
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Retrace the Light.
Top pick for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
The latest title from the HunterX development studio, Maid of Salvation is an action RPG that features fast-paced and versatile combat. Master your own fighting style with a variety of swords and firearms, and explore a dark world full of secrets.
Runic Curse Remastered
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.
The Goddess's Will
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Retrace the Light.
Dive into a 2.5D isometric action RPG adventure inspired by late-90s and early-00s classics. Face cunning enemy factions, explore a layered world filled with vivid characters, mythic stories, and handcrafted environments. Immerse yourself in a dangerous and unforgiving golden age of power fantasy.
TUNIC
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Retrace the Light.
Ranked #4 for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Retrace the Light.
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.
Memoria Wake
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Parry with precision and fight through shifting, surreal landscapes in this Souls-like action-adventure. When reality turns into a living nightmare, you must ascend through a shattered realm to rescue a missing friend.
Coral & The Abyss
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Explore a shattered, interconnected world filled with hidden secrets, challenging enemies, lost memories, and the eerie remnants of a failed mission.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Retrace the Light.
Ranked #7 for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Redemption of Liuyin
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Retrace the Light.
Ranked #8 for Retrace the Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
This is a 3D ancient style fantasy, multi ending action role-playing game. As the third installment of the Ryukyu Hidden series and the Ryukyu Hidden Nine Absolute Reincarnation Chapter, the game is designed with the principle of promoting offense and hesitation to defeat in its combat system.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retrace the Light at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retrace the 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
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the 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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~40% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Retrace the Light.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Retrace the Light.
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 ~47% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retrace the Light.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retrace the 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
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retrace the Light.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Retrace the Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the 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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Retrace the 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 Retrace the Light.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Retrace the 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 Retrace the 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 Retrace the 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!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Retrace the Light.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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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.
Maid of Salvation
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Retrace the Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
The latest title from the HunterX development studio, Maid of Salvation is an action RPG that features fast-paced and versatile combat. Master your own fighting style with a variety of swords and firearms, and explore a dark world full of secrets.
TUNIC
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Retrace the Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Retrace the Light.
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.
Death's Door
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Retrace the Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Retrace the Light.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
Frequently asked about Retrace the Light
- Does Retrace the Light run on Steam Deck?
- Retrace the Light 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 Retrace the Light cost?
- Retrace the Light is listed on Steam at 11.69 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Retrace the Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retrace the Light are Maid of Salvation, Runic Curse Remastered, The Goddess's Will.
- Who developed Retrace the Light?
- Retrace the Light was developed by Xiaming Game and published by Xiaming Game, GlintForge.
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