Games like The Light Of Vertical
If The Light Of Vertical is your kind of game, the closest matches are Phaze Shift, Cliff Kingdom and Plus Ultra: Legado — 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 The Light Of Vertical: A Metroidvania-style action adventure set in the collapsing "Sky City." Play as a life form awakening in darkness, explore decaying areas, interact with NPCs, battle bosses, collect cards, and uncover the truth through stylized art and deep storytelling.
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Steam players who put hours into The Light Of Vertical 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.
Phaze Shift
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Top pick for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
Switch, adapt, and evolve in Phaze Shift! A tag-team, action Metroidvania. Swap between two characters, fuse upgrades to forge new abilities, battle mechanized bosses, and explore a sleeping digital world in a hand-drawn diorama-style 2D adventure.
Cliff Kingdom
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Second-strongest match for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Light Of Vertical.
Deranged trolls. Old thinking machines. Nordic inspired animals with dark backstories. Meet them all in this hand drawn adventure where you play as a moth, born without wings, exploring a dark world in search of the kingdoms lost light.
Plus Ultra: Legado
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Third-strongest match for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
Explore a vast, colorful world in this 2D hand-drawn Metroidvania set during the Age of Discoveries. Grab your halberd and become a hero amid the storm!
Runic Curse Remastered
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Ranked #4 for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
Runic Curse Remastered is a thrilling action RPG Metroidvania that transports you to a cursed island. Explore dark and diverse locations, battle hordes of enemies and mighty bosses. Forge your own playstyle by combining various weapons with magical runes to overcome all challenges.
Kindred Kind
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Ranked #5 for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
Kindred Kind is a hand-drawn 2D action RPG. Hunt eight powerful beasts across a branching world, master a two-weapon combat system, and save what remains of humanity. Explore, fight, and uncover ancient mysteries, in a world teetering on the edge of ruin.
Spider Dynasty
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Ranked #6 for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
Play as a spider free from traditional platforming limits. Crawl across curved surfaces, web-swing through a web-woven aerial kingdom, battle corrupted creatures on uneven platforms, and uncover the secrets of two royal dynasties and the fall of the silk civilization.
Stickility
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Ranked #7 for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
Explore vast and deep interiors of an underground research center, brimming with creative foes, bosses, NPC's, and more. Craft your equipment from scavenged tech, and uncover Biotec's dark experiments.
The Super Kid Game
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Ranked #8 for The Light Of Vertical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
The Super Kid Game is a momentum-based action platformer with a 2D comic aesthetic. Fill your FLOW meter for breakneck speed and healing! Evade capture for a crime you didn't commit, hunt down the oppressive regime of a rising dictator, and become the hero a breaking city badly needs.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Light Of Vertical.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Light Of Vertical.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Light Of Vertical.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Light Of Vertical.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Light Of Vertical.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Light Of Vertical
- What games are most similar to The Light Of Vertical?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Light Of Vertical are Phaze Shift, Cliff Kingdom, Plus Ultra: Legado.
- Who developed The Light Of Vertical?
- The Light Of Vertical was developed by WangxoGame.
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 Light Of Vertical.
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