Games like Relight The Dark
Below are 34 hand-picked alternatives to Relight The Dark for fans of adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Relight The Dark also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from TaleHammer, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Relight The Dark: Dive deep into a chilling and emotionally charged short horror experience that tells a story about a girl living with her abusive mother.
Players who liked Relight The Dark also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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My Light In The Dark
Top pick for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Second-strongest match for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Late Homework | 遅れた宿題
Third-strongest match for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors. Explore the dilapidated halls, find your missing homework, and avoid whatever's lurking around the corner in this bite-sized, retro survival horror experience.
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Asleep: Act 1
Ranked #4 for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Immersed in her nightmares, in a chaotic reality, confused and all alone. The only safe place is her room, but not forever... She wanders through an empty city and strange places while fleeing from creatures lurking in the darkness to find out what's going on. You are in the skin of Ana Lúcia.
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Trash Horror Collection
Ranked #5 for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Welcome to a true 80's trash horror experience. This collection has 10 short horror games that you can freely choose which one you want to play.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Ranked #6 for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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Detention
Ranked #7 for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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Sorry We're Closed
Ranked #8 for Relight The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Relight The Dark at current Steam store prices.
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POSTAL 2
Priced ~67% under Relight The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
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?
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Priced ~50% under Relight The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
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.
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Blood and Bacon
Priced ~67% under Relight The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
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.
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Landlord of the Woods
Priced ~67% under Relight The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
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Ukrainian ball in search of gas
Priced ~67% under Relight The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
You play as a man turned into a ball and you need to steal all the gas from the forest at all costs.
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LoveChoice
Priced ~47% under Relight The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
"What is love?" We try to answer that with this game. The game encourages people to have a warm, soft, and understanding heart.
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The Vagrant
Priced ~74% under Relight The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
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.
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
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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NGU IDLE
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
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!
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Grimm's Hollow
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
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.
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from TaleHammer
Other recommendable Steam games by TaleHammer, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
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My Light In The Dark
Another title from TaleHammer, the studio behind Relight The Dark. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.
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For Evelyn
Another title from TaleHammer, the studio behind Relight The Dark. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
An intriguing tale of love, betrayal, and the ultimate sacrifice, combining point & click with classic adventure and RPG mechanics. Step into the world of Aura and unravel the truth about the past while completing quests, meeting new friends, and fighting to protect the ones you love!
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Arcanbreak
Another title from TaleHammer, the studio behind Relight The Dark. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
A short story-driven game about two inquisitors, Arun and Quila, investigating a murder. During the game you'll control both, each having their own set of skills you'll need to solve the mystery.
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For Evelyn II - Shards of Creation
Another title from TaleHammer, the studio behind Relight The Dark. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Discover a world torn by war and magic. Make choices that shape your story, master strategic combat, and confront powerful enemies. Explore a beautifully crafted pixel-art world full of secrets in a story-driven RPG adventure.
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A Game About AI
Another title from TaleHammer, the studio behind Relight The Dark.
Build the machine that consumes the world. Expand your AI infrastructure, drain resources, and destabilize humanity as systems spiral into collapse, water runs dry, wars ignite, and nothing can stop what you've set in motion.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
An old shack deep in a dense forest, a strange computer and a game that's trying to kill you!
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Late Homework | 遅れた宿題
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors. Explore the dilapidated halls, find your missing homework, and avoid whatever's lurking around the corner in this bite-sized, retro survival horror experience.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
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Detention
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience.
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Sorry We're Closed
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Relight The Dark.
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
Frequently asked about Relight The Dark
- How much does Relight The Dark cost?
- Relight The Dark is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Relight The Dark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Relight The Dark are My Light In The Dark, Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?, Late Homework | 遅れた宿題.
- Who developed Relight The Dark?
- Relight The Dark was developed by TaleHammer.
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