Games like Lights Out
If Lights Out is your kind of game, the closest matches are Son of a Witch, Friendship Dungeon: Party Puzzler and PAPER STRIKE — 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 Lights Out: Lights Out is a sokoban-style co-op game in which you make your way through a procedurally-generated mineshaft. Work as a team to gather resources, craft mirrors and use the Light Beam to fight against the hazards of this world, before it runs out of coal, and all will be covered in darkness.
Players who liked Lights Out also play
Steam players who put hours into Lights Out 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.
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Top pick for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Friendship Dungeon: Party Puzzler
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Friendship Dungeon: Party Puzzler is a dungeon crawler where puzzles meet chaos! Grab your friends (up to 4-player co-op) and dive into a roguelite dungeon where every room is a unique tile-swapping puzzle packed with traps, monsters, and treasures. Will your friendships survive the dungeon?
PAPER STRIKE
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Paper Strike is a tactical, fast-paced 3v3 game. Play as a Warrior Mage, wielding powerful magic and deadly weapons. Team up with 2 friends and seize control of the arena to unleash the devastating power of Armageddon in an ever-evolving battlefield.
Conan Chop Chop
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Conan Chop Chop is a party roguelite for 1-4 players full of mayhem, loot, and adventure. In this outrageous take on Conan the Barbarian, you are the muscle-bound hero foolish enough to try and stop the evil wizard Thoth-Amon!
Rampage Knights
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
CounterAttack: Uprising
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
CounterAttack: Uprising is a side scrolling space shooter (shmup). Team up or fight solo, 1 - 4 player local or up to 8 players online coop, unlock upgrades, use powerful ultimate abilities, enhance your ship the way you want, and save the Earth from annihilation.
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!
Party Animals
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Lights Out fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lights Out.
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 Lights Out.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lights Out.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lights Out.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lights Out.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Conan Chop Chop
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Conan Chop Chop is a party roguelite for 1-4 players full of mayhem, loot, and adventure. In this outrageous take on Conan the Barbarian, you are the muscle-bound hero foolish enough to try and stop the evil wizard Thoth-Amon!
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!
Party Animals
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lights Out.
Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?
Frequently asked about Lights Out
- Does Lights Out have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Lights Out supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Lights Out?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lights Out are Son of a Witch, Friendship Dungeon: Party Puzzler, PAPER STRIKE.
- Who developed Lights Out?
- Lights Out was developed by Afterthought Games.
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 Lights Out.
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