Games like The Lightning Struck Orphan
If The Lightning Struck Orphan is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingmaker Academy: Warrior's Duels, The Corpsmen and Inscryption — 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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Kingmaker Academy: Warrior's Duels
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Dear warriors of the Kingmaker Academy! Face your talented colleagues in challenging duels at our school’s most important tournament! Improve your skills with each duel, become the king of warriors and rule the school. But beware, remember it’s a roguelike! You dont want to be eliminated, do you?!
The Corpsmen
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
The Corpsmen is a deck-building roguelite where you build and lead a team of creatures to fight, hunt and harvest other monsters. Your creatures will grow and learn new skills according to how you construct them. Craft unique creatures and decks, and venture forth into the unknown.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
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...
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Breach Wanderers
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
A fresh take on Roguelike Deckbuilders that lets you fine-tune your decks before each run to adapt your strategy on your way to victory. Over 1,200 cards to choose from, ten characters with their own set of unique skills, and dozens of items and missions to evolve your tactics.
DICEOMANCER
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.
Menace from the Deep
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Lightning Struck Orphan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Lightning Struck Orphan at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Lightning Struck Orphan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Lightning Struck Orphan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under The Lightning Struck Orphan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Lightning Struck Orphan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Lightning Struck Orphan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Lightning Struck Orphan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Lightning Struck Orphan on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Samsara Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
It gets so lonely here
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
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More from Blackthornprod
Other recommendable Steam games by Blackthornprod, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Dreadful Whispers
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackthornprod, the studio behind The Lightning Struck Orphan. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
A handcrafted adventure about overcoming fear and doubt. Will you defeat your inner demons or be crippled with regret ?
Dashing Fire
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackthornprod, the studio behind The Lightning Struck Orphan. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
DASH between tiny, monster-infested planets on your journey to becoming the next Sun!
Olobollo
WHY THIS
Another title from Blackthornprod, the studio behind The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Olobollo is an action packed deathmatch experience, a mix of one man team football and magic! 1 to 4 players experience precise, skill based matches in squishy arenas, trying to shoot their wobbly opponents and score goals, with the aim to be the last Olobollo standing!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Breach Wanderers
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
A fresh take on Roguelike Deckbuilders that lets you fine-tune your decks before each run to adapt your strategy on your way to victory. Over 1,200 cards to choose from, ten characters with their own set of unique skills, and dozens of items and missions to evolve your tactics.
Frequently asked about The Lightning Struck Orphan
- How much does The Lightning Struck Orphan cost?
- The Lightning Struck Orphan is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Lightning Struck Orphan?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lightning Struck Orphan are Kingmaker Academy: Warrior's Duels, The Corpsmen, Inscryption.
- Who developed The Lightning Struck Orphan?
- The Lightning Struck Orphan was developed by Blackthornprod.
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