Games like Goodnight Universe
If Goodnight Universe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Before Your Eyes, As Long As You're Here and SEASON: A letter to the future — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, emotional and melancholic. 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 →Goodnight Universe is an indie narrative adventure developed by Nice Dream and published by Skybound Games. Players interact with the story through webcam eye-tracking, using blinks to progress and making choices that shape the experience. The game explores themes of character-driven emotion, belonging, and acceptance within a cozy yet emotionally resonant framework. Players describe it as blending humor with heartbreak, featuring relatable characters and a beautiful soundtrack with a standout ending song, with the emotional impact drawing comparisons to similar titles in the genre. Reviewers highlight the deeply personal storytelling and poignant tone that gives weight to its quiet, introspective journey. The game runs approximately 1 to 2 hours and supports only single-player mode, available now for $19.99 USD.
About Goodnight Universe: From the creators of Before Your Eyes — You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.
Players who liked Goodnight Universe also play
Steam players who put hours into Goodnight Universe 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.
Before Your Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with Goodnight Universe.
Top pick for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Shares narrative driven, story heavy and a poignant mood with Goodnight Universe.
Second-strongest match for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
SEASON: A letter to the future
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with Goodnight Universe.
Third-strongest match for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
Open Roads
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Goodnight Universe.
Ranked #4 for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Last Stop
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.
We Are OFK
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with Goodnight Universe.
Ranked #6 for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!
Heaven's Vault
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Closer the Distance
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with Goodnight Universe.
Ranked #8 for Goodnight Universe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Goodnight Universe.
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Goodnight Universe at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Goodnight Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Goodnight Universe.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Goodnight Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Goodnight Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Goodnight Universe.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Goodnight Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Goodnight Universe.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Goodnight Universe on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
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?
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 Goodnight Universe.
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 Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
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 Indie with Goodnight Universe.
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 Goodnight Universe.
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 and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
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 Goodnight Universe.
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 Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
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.
As Long As You're Here
WHY THIS
Shares narrative driven, story heavy and a poignant mood with Goodnight Universe.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
What if you lost all your memories? An emotional family drama seen through the eyes of a woman with Alzheimer's disease. As Annie’s life slowly unravels, uncover memories of her deceased brother as her past bleeds into the present.
SEASON: A letter to the future
WHY THIS
Shares a poignant mood with Goodnight Universe.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
Open Roads
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Goodnight Universe.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Heaven's Vault
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Goodnight Universe.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Frequently asked about Goodnight Universe
- Does Goodnight Universe work on Steam Deck?
- Goodnight Universe is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Goodnight Universe cost?
- Goodnight Universe is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Goodnight Universe?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Goodnight Universe are Before Your Eyes, As Long As You're Here, SEASON: A letter to the future.
- Who developed Goodnight Universe?
- Goodnight Universe was developed by Nice Dream and published by Skybound Games.
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