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Games like Night Stones

If Night Stones is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flying Neko Delivery, Mika and The Witch's Mountain and Haven Park — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and lighthearted. 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 Night Stones: You awake in Mythica, a cozy island where magical stones change day to night. Explore winding paths or venture into the wilds with your trusty glider and sailboat. To return home, you must befriend quirky townsfolk, discover hidden treasures, master magic, and face enemies in clever puzzle combat.

2024AdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOSby Advance Nine
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Art style and music are highly praisedCharming story about family and mysteryCollectathon structure appeals to younger playersChillCozyLighthearted

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Steam players who put hours into Night Stones 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. Flying Neko Delivery

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Night Stones.

    Top pick for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Take on the role of Onigiri, a feline witch who lives in a cottage and delivers packages flying on a broomstick. Customize your cottage, explore new worlds, forage plants and fungi, and meet quirky villagers along the way, while enjoying music by Mark Sparling, the composer for A Short Hike.

    2022IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Mika and The Witch's Mountain

    WHY THIS

    Shares collectible hunting and a chill mood with Night Stones.

    Second-strongest match for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is a fantasy adventure about an aspiring witch who delivers packages to the townspeople of a small island. Explore every cranny and soar through the sky with your magic broom.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Haven Park

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Night Stones.

    Third-strongest match for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Night Stones.

    Be Flint, who is doing his best to keep his grandma's park up and running and make it a place for the campers to enjoy. Learn the camper's wishes and build whatever their hearts desire to attract even more quirky characters and look forward to whimsical conversations and quests.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Smushi Come Home

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Night Stones.

    Ranked #4 for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Night Stones.

    Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!

    2023IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. InnerSpace

    WHY THIS

    Shares collectible hunting and a cozy mood with Night Stones.

    Ranked #5 for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Soar through virgin skies and dive into lost oceans as you hunt for the ancient gods of the Inverse, a forsaken realm of inside-out planets. Created by a small team of seven developers and originally funded on Kickstarter, InnerSpace is a bright, colorful exploration flying game with no horizons.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Flower

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.

    2019AdventureCasual6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration and a cozy mood with Night Stones.

    Ranked #7 for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Re:Fresh

    WHY THIS

    Shares collectible hunting, exploration, adventure and a chill mood with Night Stones.

    Ranked #8 for Night Stones fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Restore your town as you run, jump and dash through cozy locales while helping lovable townsfolk! Become immersed in a tight-knit community of animals and robots while becoming the town hero in this heart-warming solarpunk adventure.

    2023AdventureCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Night Stones

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Night Stones.

    Reviewers of Night Stones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Night Stones.

    EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

    2011RPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Night Stones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Night Stones.

    At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.

    2017RPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration and a cozy mood with Night Stones.

    Reviewers of Night Stones cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Night Stones at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Night Stones.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Night Stones.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Night Stones.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Night Stones.

    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 ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Night Stones on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    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 ↗
  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. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

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

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Mika and The Witch's Mountain

    WHY THIS

    Shares collectible hunting and a chill mood with Night Stones.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is a fantasy adventure about an aspiring witch who delivers packages to the townspeople of a small island. Explore every cranny and soar through the sky with your magic broom.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Haven Park

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Night Stones.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Night Stones.

    Be Flint, who is doing his best to keep his grandma's park up and running and make it a place for the campers to enjoy. Learn the camper's wishes and build whatever their hearts desire to attract even more quirky characters and look forward to whimsical conversations and quests.

    2021IndieAdventureRPG8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Smushi Come Home

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Night Stones.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Night Stones.

    Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!

    2023IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. InnerSpace

    WHY THIS

    Shares collectible hunting and a cozy mood with Night Stones.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Soar through virgin skies and dive into lost oceans as you hunt for the ancient gods of the Inverse, a forsaken realm of inside-out planets. Created by a small team of seven developers and originally funded on Kickstarter, InnerSpace is a bright, colorful exploration flying game with no horizons.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Flower

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.

    2019AdventureCasual6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. A Short Hike

    WHY THIS

    Shares exploration and a cozy mood with Night Stones.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

    2019IndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Re:Fresh

    WHY THIS

    Shares collectible hunting, exploration, adventure and a chill mood with Night Stones.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Night Stones.

    Restore your town as you run, jump and dash through cozy locales while helping lovable townsfolk! Become immersed in a tight-knit community of animals and robots while becoming the town hero in this heart-warming solarpunk adventure.

    2023AdventureCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Night Stones

Is Night Stones verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Night Stones 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 Night Stones cost?
Night Stones is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Night Stones?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Night Stones are Flying Neko Delivery, Mika and The Witch's Mountain, Haven Park.
Who developed Night Stones?
Night Stones was developed by Advance Nine.

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 Night Stones.

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