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Games like Project: Nightlight

If Project: Nightlight is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Wake Inn, Siren Head Horror Bunker VR and A Terrible Place — 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.

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About Project: Nightlight: Project: Nightlight is a VR survival horror game with a focus on immersive atmospheres. To survive the night you will need to solve puzzles and face the unseen horrors in the dark by using your wits and what little resources you can find. Will you bring back order or succumb to the chaos?

2023ActionAdventure9.99 USDWindowsby Fringe Realities
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Steam players who put hours into Project: Nightlight 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.

  1. A Wake Inn

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Put your VR goggles on to explore dark corridors of an abandoned hotel using realistically controlled wheelchair, and face strange army of living dolls. But you won't be alone - mysterious voice will accompany you via shortwave transmitter. Just make sure, who really pulls the strings in this world.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Siren Head Horror Bunker VR

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Siren Head Horror Bunker VR is a survival horror game with the sole objective of escaping an old abandoned bunker where the scary monster Siren Head lurks, you must explore, collect items and solve puzzles to survive and escape.

    2022ActionAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. A Terrible Place

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    What seems like a simple mission turns into a fight for survival as the island wakes up to greet its new arrivals.

    2023ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Echoes of the Living

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Propagation: Paradise Hotel

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Trapped inside the Paradise Hotel, you are desperate to find your sister. Explore dark surroundings, gather resources, and survive terrifying encounters. This intense single-player VR survival horror game with great storytelling will get your adrenaline pumping.

    2023ActionAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Devourer: Hunted Souls

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Play as a paranormal investigator in our hybrid between first person survival and psychological horror story game. Investigate a haunted forest with up to 5 players CO-OP, try to lift the curse, experience a tragic story and take decisions together. Will you survive or will you lose your soul?

    2023ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Afterlife VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Afterlife VR is a deeply immersive horror game. As Adam Bernhard, a young rookie police officer on a night patrol, you receive a call that will change your life forever. Uncover secrets hidden deep within the Black Rose mental hospital walls, where most of the patients pose a great danger.

    2022ActionAdventure11.24 USDSteam ↗
  8. Ghosts of Tabor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Project: Nightlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    Ghosts of Tabor is VRs only FPS PVP and PVE survival game where you will use your wits, skills and resources to survive. Inspired by games such as Escape from Tarkov and DayZ, featuring different scenarios from scavenging to looting and crafting. Will you survive long enough to make it out alive?

    2023ActionEarly Access24.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Project: Nightlight at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Project: Nightlight on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project: Nightlight.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Project: Nightlight.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Project: Nightlight

How much does Project: Nightlight cost?
Project: Nightlight is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Project: Nightlight?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project: Nightlight are A Wake Inn, Siren Head Horror Bunker VR, A Terrible Place.
Who developed Project: Nightlight?
Project: Nightlight was developed by Fringe Realities.

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 Project: Nightlight.

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