Games like Shardlight
If Shardlight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unavowed, Technobabylon and Blackwell Deception — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its puzzles avoid moon logic, atmospheric and bleak. 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 Shardlight: A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Players who liked Shardlight also play
Steam players who put hours into Shardlight 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.
Unavowed
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Top pick for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Technobabylon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Second-strongest match for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Third-strongest match for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Resonance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Ranked #4 for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
Primordia
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Ranked #5 for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Ranked #6 for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Blackwell Epiphany
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Ranked #7 for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
Blackwell Unbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Ranked #8 for Shardlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Shardlight
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Primordia
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Reviewers of Shardlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Technobabylon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Reviewers of Shardlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Unavowed
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Reviewers of Shardlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Gemini Rue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Reviewers of Shardlight cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shardlight at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shardlight.
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 Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Shardlight.
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 Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shardlight.
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 Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
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 Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shardlight.
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 Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shardlight.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Shardlight on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 Shardlight.
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 Shardlight.
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 Shardlight.
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 Shardlight.
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 Shardlight.
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 Shardlight.
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 Shardlight.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Wadjet Eye Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Wadjet Eye Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Unavowed
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Old Skies
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Adventure with Shardlight.
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
Blackwell Epiphany
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
Blackwell Unbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
Blackwell Convergence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The third game in the Blackwell series
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Emerald City Confidential™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Another title from Wadjet Eye Games, the studio behind Shardlight. Shares Adventure with Shardlight.
<p>Work with the world's most cunning detective in the shadowy underbelly of the Emerald City of Oz! As Petra, you'll be lured deep into mysteries involving new foes and familiar faces; Scarecrow, Lion, and Toto included. This is Oz as you've never seen it before!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Unavowed
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure, puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Technobabylon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Blackwell Deception
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.
Resonance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
Primordia
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Blackwell Epiphany
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The last game in the Blackwell series.
Blackwell Unbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Shardlight.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shardlight.
The year is 1973. The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site. The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.
Frequently asked about Shardlight
- Is Shardlight verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shardlight is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Shardlight cost?
- Shardlight is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shardlight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shardlight are Unavowed, Technobabylon, Blackwell Deception.
- Who developed Shardlight?
- Shardlight was developed by Wadjet Eye Games.
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