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Games like Van Helsing: The Lightmaker

If Van Helsing: The Lightmaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Haul, Guns & Dragons and Lost Rift — 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 Van Helsing: The Lightmaker: Take on the role of the legendary monster hunter and brilliant inventor, professor Abraham Van Helsing, in a new telling of his story in this FPS action game, where he fights to save the steampunk land of Dawnlight, plagued by a sudden invasion of terrifying monsters.

ActionAdventureWindowsby MoonMates
Van Helsing: The Lightmaker — Steam game cover

Players who liked Van Helsing: The Lightmaker also play

Steam players who put hours into Van Helsing: The Lightmaker 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. Dead Haul

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Van Helsing: The Lightmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    A first-person co-op horror game where you raid cursed buildings, grab what you can and get back to the train before it leaves. You need to sell enough loot to keep travelling. The Conductor makes sure you always owe more.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Guns & Dragons

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Van Helsing: The Lightmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

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    ActionAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Lost Rift

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Van Helsing: The Lightmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Heretic + Hexen

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Van Helsing: The Lightmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    Step into the definitive re-release of two dark spell-casting shooters that shaped the genre. This enhanced restoration makes Heretic™ + Hexen™ available to new audiences and long-time fans with expanded accessibility across more platforms and languages than ever before.

    2025ActionAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. After the Fall®

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Van Helsing: The Lightmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.

    2021ActionAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    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. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. 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 ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 ↗

Frequently asked about Van Helsing: The Lightmaker

Does Van Helsing: The Lightmaker have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Van Helsing: The Lightmaker supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Van Helsing: The Lightmaker?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Van Helsing: The Lightmaker are Dead Haul, Guns & Dragons, Lost Rift.
Who developed Van Helsing: The Lightmaker?
Van Helsing: The Lightmaker was developed by MoonMates.

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 Van Helsing: The Lightmaker.

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