Games like Moonlight Pulse
If Moonlight Pulse is your kind of game, the closest matches are Far Star, Inferno and PSYCRON — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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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Far Star
WHY THIS
Top pick for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
Far Star is a story-driven action-adventure game with Metroidvania influences. There is something fishy going on in this galaxy, but this won’t stop your intergalactic general services crew from doing their job using a varied set of skills, weapons and outfits.
Inferno
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
Inferno is a 2D action-platformer centered on Kai, a Sergeant in the Krorion Space Forces, as he searches for his traitorous commanding officer. Run, jump, dash, and FIRE through this 16-bit world fueled by betrayal.
PSYCRON
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Moonlight Pulse.
Third-strongest match for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Moonlight Pulse.
A fast-paced 2D handcrafted metroidvania with strange sci-fi environments. Something is roaming the halls, watching your every move.
Candle Knight
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
Never let your light go out. Wield a powerful flame, overcome menacing creatures and explore the shadows of a ruined castle in this compelling 2.5D action adventure platformer which features a unique dynamic difficulty system.
Crimson Glaive Sigma
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
Enjoy this 2D metroidvania-like bullet hell platformer. Jump, dodge and traverse using your jet pack. Find weapons and abilities. Fight bosses and escape an old space station drifting through the cosmos. You are alone, with nothing but a space suit and a gun. Just keep going! Persevere and triumph!
Deep Enigma
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Ranked #6 for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
The game has about 320 rooms, 10 areas, and 328 upgrade hidden items! Can you find them all?
TWINSTAR 双星
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
A sci-fi fantasy Metroidvania where you play as a vampire adrift in space. Awaken in a strange space lab, explore the station, solve puzzles, defeat enemies, find hidden rooms, collect odd items, awaken lost powers, and uncover a secret buried deep within.
Outpost Delta
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Moonlight Pulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
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Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Moonlight Pulse.
Reviewers of Moonlight Pulse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
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.
Vision Soft Reset
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Moonlight Pulse.
Reviewers of Moonlight Pulse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.
SANRI
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Moonlight Pulse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
SANRI is a first-person psychological horror game where you play a schizophrenic character whose wife disappeared during camp. Face the delusions, solve the mystery and try to find her despite your constantly distorted perception of time-space.
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Moonlight Pulse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Moonlight Pulse at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
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 ~58% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
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 ~42% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moonlight Pulse.
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 ~63% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Action with Moonlight Pulse.
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 ~48% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
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 ~58% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
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 ~58% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Moonlight Pulse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
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 Moonlight Pulse.
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 Moonlight Pulse.
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 Moonlight Pulse.
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 Moonlight Pulse.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Moonlight Pulse.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Moonlight Pulse.
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 Moonlight Pulse.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Moonlight Pulse
- Is Moonlight Pulse verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Moonlight Pulse is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Moonlight Pulse cost?
- Moonlight Pulse is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Moonlight Pulse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Moonlight Pulse are Far Star, Inferno, PSYCRON.
- Who developed Moonlight Pulse?
- Moonlight Pulse was developed by Seafloor Games LLC.
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 Moonlight Pulse.
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