Games like Unlighted
If Unlighted is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Enceladus, THANKS, LIGHT. and Rayborne — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Unlighted: Unlighted is a first-person puzzle video game where you enter a dystopian world that reflects the threshold between memory and oblivion, where you experiment with the characteristics of weird materials that materialize when hit by a ray of light.
Players who liked Unlighted also play
Steam players who put hours into Unlighted 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.
Project Enceladus
WHY THIS
Top pick for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
A first-person puzzle-platformer investigation where you explore the fragmented mind of a murderer to uncover the truth behind a tragic space station massacre.
THANKS, LIGHT.
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Unlighted.
A first-person puzzle-platformer where light isn’t just illumination—it’s your way to shape the reality. Only light reveals the truth. Never believe what you see. Step into the puzzles, bend dimensions, and uncover the mystery waiting beyond perception.
Rayborne
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
Rayborne is a puzzle game built around lasers, physics, and real-time light simulation. Solve handcrafted challenges by shaping light itself while uncovering the mystery behind a questionable AI research facility.
Knee Deep
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
When a washed-up actor hangs himself on location, a spotlight is cast on the backwater Florida town of Cypress Knee. Your screen becomes a stage on which you investigate this mysterious death as three distinct characters.
Luto
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Viewfinder
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.
Martha Is Dead
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
Loan Shark
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Unlighted fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
The loan shark is coming for you. Catch enough fish to repay your debt before it is too late. Go fish.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Unlighted at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unlighted.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unlighted.
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 ~47% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Unlighted.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Unlighted.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Unlighted.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Unlighted.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Unlighted on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Unlighted.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Unlighted.
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 Unlighted.
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 Unlighted.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Unlighted.
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 Unlighted.
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 Unlighted.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Unlighted.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Unlighted
- How much does Unlighted cost?
- Unlighted is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Unlighted?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Unlighted are Project Enceladus, THANKS, LIGHT., Rayborne.
- Who developed Unlighted?
- Unlighted was developed by Ginuh Games.
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 Unlighted.
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