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Games like Southern Lights: Broken Frequency

If Southern Lights: Broken Frequency is your kind of game, the closest matches are Runerock Arena, Kriv Solas and Office Overlord — 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 Southern Lights: Broken Frequency: In this single-player strategy game, you will lead a stranded Antarctic research station against terrifying odds. Manage your crew, stretch scarce resources, and balance progress against survival as an unseen cosmic threat tightens its grip.

2026StrategyIndieWindowsby Glynos Interactive
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  1. Runerock Arena

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    Forge a lasting dynasty across a Gladiator League of Runerock in this turn-based strategy game with RPG aspects. Hire your team, outfit them with equipment and spells, then lead them into tactical combat. Guide careers from raw recruits to seasoned legends, training new successors for arena glory.

    2026StrategyIndieRPG9.59 USDSteam ↗
  2. Kriv Solas

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    A turn-based take on the extraction fantasy RPG. Manage your resources, gather loot, and complete your expedition. If you fail to return, no treasure will matter.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Office Overlord

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    From Interns to CEOs, every coworker has a role to play. Build your team, discover unexpected synergies, and take on rival companies in a tactical RPG where every coworker can make a difference.

    2026StrategySteam ↗
  4. Ancient Frontier: Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    Ancient Frontier Tactics is a turn-based tactical rogue-lite. You command an ever growing fleet on a mission through unknown space. Explore randomly generated sectors filled with enemies and mystery as you expand your ships and crew. Experience the glory of victory or bitter defeat.

    StrategySteam ↗
  5. Goddess of Strategy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    Lead mortal heroes on grid-based maps in this Strategy-RPG-Roguelite and restore the power of the Olympians. Forge bonds with gods, level up your team and choose the most synergistic skills. Face limited resources, tough choices, and tactical challenges as you hunt down the Seven Deadly Sins.

    StrategyRPGSteam ↗
  6. Stratagem Lost

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    Brave perilous turn-based strategy encounters and uncover dark conspiracies in a broken world. Draft your team of unique characters and have them learn skills from each other. Welcome to hard times—can you recover what's been lost?

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  7. Shell of the coward

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Shell of the Coward is a turn-based roguelike/RPG where you must escort the Anathema you've sworn to protect through a perilous dungeon without ever looking back.

    2026RPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Crystal in Carnations

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Southern Lights: Broken Frequency fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    Crystal in Carnations is a story-rich tactical RPG and fantasy war epic of blood, passion, and political intrigue, where your choices determine who survives and what kind of nation rises from the ashes.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗

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  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

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  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

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  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Southern Lights: Broken Frequency.

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Southern Lights: Broken Frequency

What games are most similar to Southern Lights: Broken Frequency?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Southern Lights: Broken Frequency are Runerock Arena, Kriv Solas, Office Overlord.
Who developed Southern Lights: Broken Frequency?
Southern Lights: Broken Frequency was developed by Glynos Interactive.

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