Games like Dirtlight
If Dirtlight is your kind of game, the closest matches are CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story™, MIO: Memories in Orbit and F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch — 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 Dirtlight: Dig through an odd world full of dangerous creatures. Uncover hidden paths and long-buried secrets. Dirtlight is a metroidvania where the journey runs deep, and offers unexpected ways to explore.
Players who liked Dirtlight also play
Steam players who put hours into Dirtlight 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.
CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story™
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Traverse the sprawling city of Zaun as Ekko, a young inventor with a device to manipulate time, in this story-driven action platformer. Collect parts, craft gadgets, and unlock abilities—then rewind time to adapt your approach to every new challenge.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Primal Planet
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!
Bat Boy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Ryosuke isn't just your regular high-school kid. He and his fellow sports-star friends secretly battle against the evil invading forces of Lord Vicious, hellbent on hosting sinister athletic events for his own amusement! Ryosuke is Bat Boy!
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dirtlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
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.
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 Dirtlight.
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 Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
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.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dirtlight.
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.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Primal Planet
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Unveil a heartfelt story of family, dinosaurs, and UFOs! Craft, upgrade, and survive in a realm of primeval predators, savage tribes and... ancient aliens. Rise from a humble cave dweller to the planet’s last hope — alone or in local co-op. Welcome to the dinovania!
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.
Bat Boy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Ryosuke isn't just your regular high-school kid. He and his fellow sports-star friends secretly battle against the evil invading forces of Lord Vicious, hellbent on hosting sinister athletic events for his own amusement! Ryosuke is Bat Boy!
Voidwrought
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dirtlight.
Voidwrought is a 2D action-platformer set in a hand-drawn world of cosmic horrors. Explore the thawing ruins of the First Civilisation and strike down the gods that dwell there. Grow your powers, uncover ancient artifacts, and expand your shrine amid the wreckage.
Frequently asked about Dirtlight
- What games are most similar to Dirtlight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dirtlight are CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story™, MIO: Memories in Orbit, F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch.
- Who developed Dirtlight?
- Dirtlight was developed by Applava.
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 Dirtlight.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.