Games like Neon Nights
If Neon Nights is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sluggernauts, Mayhematic and Battle Runes of Metalaria — 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 Neon Nights: No upgrades. No items. No crutches. It’s just you, your sword, and a swarm of relentless enemies. Precision timing and quick reflexes are all that stand between you and the high score. How long can you survive?
Players who liked Neon Nights also play
Steam players who put hours into Neon Nights 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.
Sluggernauts
WHY THIS
Top pick for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Arcade roguelike baseball. Lead the Hickory Creek Squirrels, a small town minor league team and Earth's last hope. Take a randomized road trip and upgrade your team with powerful gear combinations. Hit, pitch, and field to beat otherworldly teams with unfair advantages.
Mayhematic
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Mayhematic is a bullet heaven where the next door is always worth the trouble behind it. Blast through cartoon hordes solo or in 4-player online co-op, spend your kills on doors that go deeper, build something ridiculous and put your name on the leaderboard.
Battle Runes of Metalaria
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Battle Runes of Metalaria is an action packed, chaos infused board game for up to four players. Stack your runes on the board to make vertical and horizontal combos or smash your opponents pieces to smithereens
Flip-Flop Fury
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Smack deserving targets with flying footwear in this fast, projectile-steering arcade game. Short, replayable runs with tons of challenges, instant restart, bullet time, unlockable footwear, and juicy, reactive physics.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Disc Room
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse.
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Neon Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters. Follow Mina and Thrash in the single-player campaign or challenge your friends in Local Multiplayer and Daily Cook-Offs.
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 Neon Nights.
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 with Neon Nights.
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 Neon Nights.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Nights.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Neon Nights.
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 Neon Nights.
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 Neon Nights.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Disc Room
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse.
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Neon Nights.
Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters. Follow Mina and Thrash in the single-player campaign or challenge your friends in Local Multiplayer and Daily Cook-Offs.
Frequently asked about Neon Nights
- What games are most similar to Neon Nights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neon Nights are Sluggernauts, Mayhematic, Battle Runes of Metalaria.
- Who developed Neon Nights?
- Neon Nights was developed by Flyingmango Studios.
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 Neon Nights.
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