Games like The Lighthouse
If The Lighthouse is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Witness, Valheim and Downward: Enhanced Edition — 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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Players who liked The Lighthouse also play
Steam players who put hours into The Lighthouse 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.
The Witness
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Top pick for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Valheim
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Second-strongest match for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Downward: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in a first-person, single-player adventure. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them - Indiana Jones™.
Supraland
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Ranked #7 for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.
Riven (1997)
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Ranked #8 for The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Lighthouse at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
A Trip to Yugoslavia: Director's Cut
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Priced ~51% under The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
A TRIP TO YUGOSLAVIA is an experimental interactive game with a theme of the old VCR player (with the ability to REWIND, PAUSE and FASTFORWARD).
aMAZE Classic
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Priced ~44% under The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
aMAZE Classic is a straightforward and surprisingly - difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze with abstraction art and calm soundtrack.
Fuhrer in LA - Special Edition
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Priced ~44% under The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Fuhrer in a LA is a grindhouse-styled top-down action-adventure game which takes place around 1947, unraveling the truth about the demise of the Fuhrer post World War 2.
Gachi Heroes 2: Flexboll
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Priced ~51% under The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Everyone knows who the real king of Flex and today he is ready to teach you. Plunge into an incredible adventure, meet different characters from the universe "gachimuchi" and find out how deep you are ready to go. However, there is one problem...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
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
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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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Outer Wilds
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in a first-person, single-player adventure. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them - Indiana Jones™.
Riven (1997)
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with The Lighthouse.
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
Frequently asked about The Lighthouse
- How much does The Lighthouse cost?
- The Lighthouse is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Lighthouse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lighthouse are The Witness, Valheim, Downward: Enhanced Edition.
- Who developed The Lighthouse?
- The Lighthouse was developed by InPlainSight.
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 The Lighthouse.
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