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Games like Moonlight

If Moonlight is your kind of game, the closest matches are No Man's Sky, Dandelion Void and Starbound — 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.

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About Moonlight: Moonlight is a survival crafting game set in a dynamic alien world that shifts around you. Change the landscape of a beautiful, deadly, procedurally-generated 2D world by growing food, encountering strange creatures and building powerful machines that will help you escape this awful place... maybe.

2027IndieCasualWindowsby Firewood Digital Ltd
Moonlight — Steam game cover

Players who liked Moonlight also play

Steam players who put hours into Moonlight 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.

  1. No Man's Sky

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

    2016ActionAdventure59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Dandelion Void

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Survive the jungle-choked halls of a derelict arkship adrift between the stars. Establish a refuge and forage resources from the skeletal remains of your ancestors. Explore solo or with your friends. Fashion what weapons you can, for the jungle is alive and hostile…

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Starbound

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Osiris: New Dawn

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Breathedge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Among Trees

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Occupy Mars: The Game

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. ASTRONEER

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Moonlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

    2019IndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Moonlight.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Moonlight.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Moonlight

What games are most similar to Moonlight?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Moonlight are No Man's Sky, Dandelion Void, Starbound.
Who developed Moonlight?
Moonlight was developed by Firewood Digital Ltd.

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 Moonlight.

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