Games like Blacklight
If Blacklight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grapple Gunners, Fraymakers and Nidhogg — 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 Blacklight: A combo-oriented fighting game with a simple system. Players who are familiar with fighting games will be able to play right away thanks to its responsiveness and ease of understanding! Fly, run, solidify, and collapse! Supports rollback-style online matches.
Players who liked Blacklight also play
Steam players who put hours into Blacklight 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.
Grapple Gunners
WHY THIS
Top pick for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Swing, shoot and explode your friends in this chaotic multiplayer experience! Use the grappling hook to outmaneuver and outlast everyone. Grab a weapon and fight to be the last one standing across 70 unique maps!
Fraymakers
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Fraymakers is the ultimate customizable platform fighting game, featuring a cast of some of indie gaming's biggest icons. Duke it out with up to 4 players and call on assists to help out in the heat of battle. Create and play custom characters, stages, modes, and more for infinite fun!
Nidhogg
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
FOOTSIES Rollback Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blacklight.
FOOTSIES is a simple 2D ground-based fighting game that both new and experienced players can pick up and enjoy right away. Featuring online battle mode with rollback netcode, implemented using GGPO open-source codes.
MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blacklight.
This is the latest addition to the series of 2D fighting games based on TYPE-MOON's visual novel, Tsukihime. The curtain rises once more on dramatic battles played out with familiar characters from Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon.
Rivals of Aether II
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Rivals of Aether II is the sequel to the hit indie fighting game, Rivals of Aether. Play as both new and returning elemental fighters in the next generation of platform fighters.
Capcom Fighting Collection
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blacklight.
Ten of Capcom's most popular arcade games in one bumper collection! A wide variety of titles are included from series such as Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, Cyberbots, and the first home console port of Red Earth! And of course, all titles support online play!
Stick Fight: The Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Blacklight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blacklight at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Blacklight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Blacklight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blacklight.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Blacklight on Steam right now. Shares Action with Blacklight.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Blacklight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blacklight.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Blacklight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
"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
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Blacklight on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
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!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Blacklight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blacklight.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blacklight.
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?
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 Blacklight.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Blacklight.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blacklight.
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 Blacklight.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blacklight.
This is the latest addition to the series of 2D fighting games based on TYPE-MOON's visual novel, Tsukihime. The curtain rises once more on dramatic battles played out with familiar characters from Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon.
Rivals of Aether II
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Rivals of Aether II is the sequel to the hit indie fighting game, Rivals of Aether. Play as both new and returning elemental fighters in the next generation of platform fighters.
Capcom Fighting Collection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blacklight.
Ten of Capcom's most popular arcade games in one bumper collection! A wide variety of titles are included from series such as Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, Cyberbots, and the first home console port of Red Earth! And of course, all titles support online play!
Stick Fight: The Game
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blacklight.
Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.
Frequently asked about Blacklight
- How much does Blacklight cost?
- Blacklight is listed on Steam at 2.80 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Blacklight have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Blacklight supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Blacklight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blacklight are Grapple Gunners, Fraymakers, Nidhogg.
- Who developed Blacklight?
- Blacklight was developed by Okaemon.
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 Blacklight.
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