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Games like Project Lightbringer

If Project Lightbringer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pattern Survivors: Bullet Hell — Create Chaos, ZDSS: Zombie Drone Survival Show and The Absolute Mage — 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.

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About Project Lightbringer: Project Lightbringer is an exploration-focused bullet heaven where light is your only safe ground. Fight endless hordes, collect powerful upgrades, activate lanterns to expand your territory, and venture deeper into the mist to hunt massive creatures.

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Steam players who put hours into Project Lightbringer 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. Pattern Survivors: Bullet Hell — Create Chaos

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Project Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Project Lightbringer.

    “Pattern Survivors: Bullet Hell” — a dynamic roguelike where you design your own attack patterns and defend your tower against endless waves of enemies. Upgrade, modify, and adapt your strategy in real time — can you survive the chaos of patterns?

    2025ActionStrategyIndie0.74 USDSteam ↗
  2. ZDSS: Zombie Drone Survival Show

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Project Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Project Lightbringer.

    Explosive action roguelike shooter where you’re the star of a bloody reality show! Build and upgrade an army of deadly combat drones, lure zombie clones into traps, and turn the arena itself into a weapon. Stage a slaughter worthy of primetime!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  3. The Absolute Mage

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Project Lightbringer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Project Lightbringer.

    Unleash your magic to annihilate hordes of monsters and slay formidable bosses in this intense 2D action-roguelike. Choose your spells, enhance them and wreak havoc in the battlefield.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project Lightbringer.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 Project Lightbringer.

    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 ↗
  3. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Lightbringer.

    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 ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Lightbringer.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project Lightbringer.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  6. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. OnlyCans: Thirst Date

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Lightbringer.

    Feel The Fizz Inside You™ with the brand new Shize™ Collection!

    2021IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Project Lightbringer.

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from Chicken Launcher

Other recommendable Steam games by Chicken Launcher, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. No Place Like Home

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Chicken Launcher, the studio behind Project Lightbringer. Shares Indie and Simulation with Project Lightbringer.

    Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

    2022IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Fresh Start Cleaning Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Chicken Launcher, the studio behind Project Lightbringer. Shares Action and Indie with Project Lightbringer.

    Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Pan'orama

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Chicken Launcher, the studio behind Project Lightbringer. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project Lightbringer.

    Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Captain Pawsome

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Chicken Launcher, the studio behind Project Lightbringer. Shares Action and Indie with Project Lightbringer.

    Set sail with Captain Pawsome on the relaxing 2D fishing adventure! Craft, upgrade, customize, and conquer the high seas. Clean the environment, catch unique fish, and unleash your inner adventurer. Dive in now and make a splash!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Pan'orama: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Chicken Launcher, the studio behind Project Lightbringer. Shares Strategy and Indie with Project Lightbringer.

    Pan'orama is a relaxing and soothing puzzle simulation game in which you create amazing landscapes using different types of tiles, but most of all by discovering the connections between them and finding unique combinations.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  6. Project: Mist

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Chicken Launcher, the studio behind Project Lightbringer. Shares Action and Indie with Project Lightbringer.

    Explore a remote island solo or in MULTIPLAYER co-op in this open-world survival horror. Manipulate objects and enemies with the Gravity Gun, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and survive a hostile world shaped by abandoned, mysterious facilities.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure22.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Archi Vista

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Chicken Launcher, the studio behind Project Lightbringer. Shares Action and Strategy with Project Lightbringer.

    Dig, wash, and uncover the lost artifacts in Archi Vista, a relaxing first-person excavation game. Break through layers of earth, clean forgotten ruins, find hidden treasures, and restore extraordinary places one satisfying discovery at a time.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Project Lightbringer

What games are most similar to Project Lightbringer?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Lightbringer are Pattern Survivors: Bullet Hell — Create Chaos, ZDSS: Zombie Drone Survival Show, The Absolute Mage.
Who developed Project Lightbringer?
Project Lightbringer was developed by Chicken Launcher.

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 Project Lightbringer.

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