Games like The Lightning Girl
If The Lightning Girl is your kind of game, the closest matches are The 7th Shift, VERISMO and 3:33 AM — 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 Lightning Girl: Awoken by a lightning strike, your eyes adjust to the dark in the basement of a strange man's house. Find items, solve puzzles, evade your pursuer, and discover the truth of this house in this survival-horror RPG.
Players who liked The Lightning Girl also play
Steam players who put hours into The Lightning Girl 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 7th Shift
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Top pick for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lightning Girl.
A psychological horror game about working overnight shifts alone in a grocery store. Stock shelves. Clean. Do your job. But you soon realize something sinister is watching. Survive seven shifts to discover why you were really hired and face a choice that will seal your fate.
VERISMO
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Lightning Girl.
A ghost and a carnival clown plot revenge on the man who ruined their lives. An operatic-tragedy visual novel set in 1920s Sicily.
3:33 AM
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lightning Girl.
A stranger calls at 3:33 AM. They know your name. Choose your words carefully in this fully voiced psychological horror game.
/R - A Neurodivergent Thriller
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Ranked #4 for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Lightning Girl.
Run, hide, adapt and survive in a mansion of endless night and bizarre brain-twisting phenomena in this 2D hand-drawn psychological horror title.
虫鸣
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Lightning Girl.
崇明接到了上级的安排，去往雾谷村进行旅游景点调查采访，听闻村子内存在着“养蛊辟邪祟”的习俗，每户人家或多或少都懂得一些蛊术， 但这些蛊术从何而来的却无从得知... 夜晚的大山深处，处处响起虫鸣... 起雾了 --------------------------------- 感谢同学们的支持，目前评论中反映到的bug我们正在积极修复，抱歉给大伙儿带来不好的游戏体验，近期我们也会添加键盘操作，以及对其它方面的优化更新，开发不易555555，希望不要因为这一问题带来差评，谢谢！
Filthy us 2
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Ranked #6 for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Lightning Girl.
千禧年初西北某地，一起恶性杀人事件轰动一时，行凶者临死前紧紧握着半张佛脸，他强烈的怨念引起了“无者”的注意。随着探究的深入，竟又牵扯出十年前另一起纵火灭门案！相同的一尊佛像，背后暗藏的究竟是天灾还是人祸。在那片由怨念产生的怨秽地之中，种种诡异可怖的表象之下，深埋着未知的秘密。
Is Simon There?
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Ranked #7 for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Lightning Girl.
A few months have passed since the death of my son, Simon. Ever since that tragic day, I find myself falling into the darkest emotions I could ever imagine. I am haunted everyday with what I have done; But sometimes, I am haunted by more than just my emotions...
The Scourge | Tai Ương
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Ranked #8 for The Lightning Girl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Lightning Girl.
Explore the nightmarish lucid dreams of Nhat Huy to solve his family's mystery. Set in 90s Saigon, navigate dilapidated corridors, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Can you survive the twisting maze and The Scourge?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Lightning Girl at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Girl.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lightning Girl.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Girl.
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 ~72% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lightning Girl.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Girl.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Lightning Girl.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Lightning Girl.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under The Lightning Girl on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Lightning Girl.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 and Casual with The Lightning Girl.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Indie with The Lightning Girl.
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 with The Lightning Girl.
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 Indie with The Lightning Girl.
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.
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 Casual with The Lightning Girl.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lightning Girl.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Lightning Girl
- How much does The Lightning Girl cost?
- The Lightning Girl is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Lightning Girl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lightning Girl are The 7th Shift, VERISMO, 3:33 AM.
- Who developed The Lightning Girl?
- The Lightning Girl was developed by HauntSoft.
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 Lightning Girl.
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