Games like Glowkeeper
If Glowkeeper is your kind of game, the closest matches are BarrelBots, Rita and Elementalist — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Glowkeeper: A luminescent puzzle game about manipulating elements. By the light of fireflies, link and dissolve elemental forces to construct bridges, break through obstacles, and traverse a glowing, interconnected world.
Players who liked Glowkeeper also play
Steam players who put hours into Glowkeeper 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.
BarrelBots
WHY THIS
Top pick for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A multilayered grid-based puzzle game featuring small robots that carry and stack Barrels of nuclear waste.
Rita
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
Rita is a cozy adventure where a little chicklet solves word-based puzzles to transform the world around her. Follow her story across generations, meet her grandchicklet, and be a part of her legacy.
Elementalist
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A puzzle platformer where you collect Elements and use their powers to move around in various ways. Each Element you collect becomes the next one you use, so pay attention to the order!
WyrmWorm
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
WyrmWorm is a head-scratching, line-drawing puzzler where branching serpents wind their way across the grid, restoring life to a faded world. Wiggle through challenging puzzles and clever mechanics, from the bottom of the sea to the depths of space.
Isles of Sea and Sky
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, exploration and an atmospheric mood with Glowkeeper.
Ranked #5 for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression and an atmospheric mood with Glowkeeper.
Ranked #6 for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!
Temple Of Snek
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Glowkeeper.
Ranked #7 for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A snaky tile-based puzzle dungeon adventure. Defend the temple, monch the infidels, and grow and grow ...and grow?
Dungeon Gals
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming, environmental puzzle solving, atmospheric and a whimsical mood with Glowkeeper.
Ranked #8 for Glowkeeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Glowkeeper at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
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?
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
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?
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~87% under Glowkeeper on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
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 Glowkeeper.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Isles of Sea and Sky
WHY THIS
Shares backtracking, exploration and an atmospheric mood with Glowkeeper.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
Paquerette Down the Bunburrows
WHY THIS
Shares non linear progression and an atmospheric mood with Glowkeeper.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!
Dungeon Gals
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming, environmental puzzle solving, atmospheric and a whimsical mood with Glowkeeper.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Glowkeeper.
A small crisis control team has been summoned to help a civilization in the sky escape impending doom! Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and find lots of treasure to help prepare yourself for incredible challenges!
Frequently asked about Glowkeeper
- How much does Glowkeeper cost?
- Glowkeeper is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Glowkeeper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Glowkeeper are BarrelBots, Rita, Elementalist.
- Who developed Glowkeeper?
- Glowkeeper was developed by oolimry, bucketfish and published by oolimry, bucketfish.
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