Games like Blue Lightning
If Blue Lightning is your kind of game, the closest matches are Snow Strike, Space Battle SVF and ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN — 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 Blue Lightning: In this high-octane flight shooter, originally released in 1989 for the Atari Lynx handheld console, take control of the top-secret high-tech fighter jet Blue Lightning. Penetrate enemy territory and fly nine crucial missions in a variety of environments.
Players who liked Blue Lightning also play
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Snow Strike
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Top pick for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Fly your F14-LBC "Rapier" on a series of air bound missions. Your task – to destroy the labs, bomb refineries, and stop the enemy convoys. But watch out for those enemies who are armed with heat and radar guided missiles!
Space Battle SVF
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Second-strongest match for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
This game is a 3D space flight shooter. Arcade type game. It's a game to shoot a lot of missiles.
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Become an ace pilot and soar through photorealistic skies with full 360 degree movement; down enemy aircraft and experience the thrill of engaging in realistic sorties! Aerial combat has never looked or felt better!
Paper Planes
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Ranked #4 for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Take your role as protector and defend your assets from enemy squadrons or engage in devastation as the attacker. Fly with the best Paper Plane pilots in the world in hand crafted parks with an abundance of enemies to destroy. Paper Planes is an Arcade team-flightsim, base defender and battleroyale.
Raid on the Zone
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Ranked #5 for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Fight in a furious battle against “The Zone”, a mysterious terrorist group hell-bent on destroying the world. Cripple their defenses with your dual-prop helicopter and massive arsenal of weaponry in this retro-inspired homage to arcade games of the 80’s.
Massive Air Combat
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Ranked #6 for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
This game is a simple 3D flight shooting game. It's an arcade-style game. Player controls the aircraft(XF-99) to destroy enemy aircraft.
City Air Battle
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Ranked #7 for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
City Air Battle is a flying racing and shooting game where you will pilot a fighter jet to compete with opponents in the air over real cities, hitting various targets and avoiding buildings. You can also engage in intense aerial battles with opponents.
Project Wingman
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Ranked #8 for Blue Lightning fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and gamemodes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blue Lightning at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~80% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
STAR WARS™ Battlefront (Classic, 2004)
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Priced ~50% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Fight the greatest battles in the STAR WARS universe any way you want to. The choice is yours.
Kill It With Fire
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Priced ~48% under Blue Lightning on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Waves
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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More from Epyx, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Epyx, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Rogue
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Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
Impossible Mission II
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Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Sequel to the equally-popular Impossible Mission, this classic 1980s action platformer sees you tasked with infiltrating a futuristic fortress, built to keep safe malicious mastermind Elvin Atombender. Now available on Steam for the first time, responsibility for saving the world rests with YOU!
California Games II
WHY THIS
Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning.
Originally launched in 1990 on the boundary-pushing 16-bit computers and consoles of the day, this bodacious sequel to the immensely popular California Games sees you competing in five awesome events: hang-gliding, jet-skiing, snowboarding, body-boarding and skateboarding!
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
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Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning.
In this classic dungeon crawler, hack and slash your way through over 500 rooms with dozens of terrifying monsters. A true 1980s fantasy game, experience the frustrations and triumphs of the tabletop gaming inspired combat. Temple of Apshai is waiting. Silently lurking. Patiently waiting. For you.
The Games: Winter Edition
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Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning.
Compete in seven Winter Games events in this DOS classic from 1988, created by masters of sports simulation Epyx. Hurtle down the slopes, over jumps, or across the ice, all in search of that elusive Gold medal.
Battle Bugs
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Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning.
In this unconventional real-time strategy game, control a fearsome army of stink bugs, cockroaches, lightning bugs, ants and more in a miniature, pun-filled warzone! 56 battles with 22 types of Battle Bug await you!
Jumpman (C64/MSDOS)
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Another title from Epyx, Inc., the studio behind Blue Lightning. Shares Action with Blue Lightning.
Run, climb and jump from platform to platform to collect and disarm deadly bombs, but watch out! One single misstep will send you tumbling to the ground! With 30 different challenging levels to beat, experience the thrills and spills of one of the earliest platformers.
Frequently asked about Blue Lightning
- How much does Blue Lightning cost?
- Blue Lightning is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blue Lightning?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blue Lightning are Snow Strike, Space Battle SVF, ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN.
- Who developed Blue Lightning?
- Blue Lightning was developed by Epyx, Inc. and published by Pixel Games UK.
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