Games like The Lost Light
If The Lost Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fairy Springs, Under the Elm and Garden Story — 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 Lost Light: Restoration is more than a duty, it's an act of kindness. Explore the wilting world of Skygrove as Sol, a human chosen by the last fading starlight. Rescue corrupted creatures, recover scattered lanterns, and raise a new generation of hope in this cozy 2D pixel-art fantasy adventure.
Players who liked The Lost Light also play
Steam players who put hours into The Lost Light 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.
Fairy Springs
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Top pick for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Light.
You are a magical Fairy tasked with your first assignment: aid the critters of the glen through the seasons of a year. Take your time getting to know the valley's inhabitants in this cozy little adventure. Every day has a new task to complete with each animal neighbor having something fresh to say.
Under the Elm
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Second-strongest match for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Light.
Inherit your grandmother's cabin and the woods she loved. Forage real mushrooms, brew the recipes she perfected, fill the field guide she left unfinished, and tend to the villagers she took care of for 40 years. A cozy game about coming home.
Garden Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Light.
Embark on a wholesome adventure to save The Grove! Forage resources, combat the invasive Rot, and restore the community. Relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor in this charming action-RPG starring a grape.
Grimshire
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lost Light.
A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?
Little-Known Galaxy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Light.
Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.
Firefly Village
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lost Light.
The Firefly Village awaits! A bite-sized, streamlined farming sim that focuses on moments that matter, without wasting a single second of your time. Build a homestead, raise crops, tend to livestock, make friends, and enjoy a pocket of paradise where farming is a delight and friends plentiful.
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Lost Light.
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is a crafting RPG set in the whimsical world of Bandle City. After a party goes wrong, the portals that connect your home collapse and throw everything into chaos! Using your knitting magic and backpack house, restore the portals to reunite Bandle City.
Cattails: Wildwood Story
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Lost Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lost Light.
Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Lost Light.
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 Lost Light.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lost Light.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Lost Light.
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 The Lost Light.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Lost Light.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Light.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Garden Story
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Light.
Embark on a wholesome adventure to save The Grove! Forage resources, combat the invasive Rot, and restore the community. Relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor in this charming action-RPG starring a grape.
Little-Known Galaxy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Lost Light.
Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.
Firefly Village
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lost Light.
The Firefly Village awaits! A bite-sized, streamlined farming sim that focuses on moments that matter, without wasting a single second of your time. Build a homestead, raise crops, tend to livestock, make friends, and enjoy a pocket of paradise where farming is a delight and friends plentiful.
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with The Lost Light.
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is a crafting RPG set in the whimsical world of Bandle City. After a party goes wrong, the portals that connect your home collapse and throw everything into chaos! Using your knitting magic and backpack house, restore the portals to reunite Bandle City.
Cattails: Wildwood Story
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Lost Light.
Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
Frequently asked about The Lost Light
- What games are most similar to The Lost Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Lost Light are Fairy Springs, Under the Elm, Garden Story.
- Who developed The Lost Light?
- The Lost Light was developed by Lifeargus.
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 Lost Light.
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