Games like The Darkened Northern Lights
If The Darkened Northern Lights is your kind of game, the closest matches are Disaster City: Magical Girl Dispatch, The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago and Festival — 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 Darkened Northern Lights: A storybook role-playing game for the whole family, inspired by Finnish mythology. Read tales, free enchanted gnomes, gather companions, and play gentle turn-based dice combat. Make choices that matter, tend your garden, and rekindle the darkened northern lights at your own pace.
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Disaster City: Magical Girl Dispatch
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Top pick for The Darkened Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Disaster City: Magical Girl Dispatch is an anime RPG combining urban wasteland exploration, companion collection, paper-doll progression, and ATB turn-based combat. Explore the high-pressure city of Tianyuan, collect perks, awaken magical transformations, and craft stories in the built-in editor!
The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Darkened Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Darkened Northern Lights.
This is a Chinese historical story game that chronicles the dusty past of the Sima Yi family during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period - the unification of the Three Kingdoms.
PARTY RUSH!!
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Ranked #4 for The Darkened Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Here we present, a cynical RPG with close to 160,000 patterns of party making. Choose your favorite from about 100 different characters and save the pixelated world. Some events spawn only during certain days of the week. No need to worry, "somebody from another dimension" will help you.
High Sea Saga DX
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Ranked #5 for The Darkened Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Set sail and join yer crew in search of treasure and glory!
MareQuest: An Interactive Tail
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Darkened Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
A terrible darkness threatens a world of overwhelmingly adorable mares. Can a new cute mare with amnesia save the world or will she lose more than her memories along the way?
Trials of Proelium
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Ranked #7 for The Darkened Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Experience a colorful world full of vibrant characters through the eyes of Letha, a young warrior on the hunt for district masters in her pursuit to become Proeliums new emperor in this anime style turn-based RPG.
Kingsvein
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Ranked #8 for The Darkened Northern Lights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Explore and reclaim the infested castle-city of Kingsvein! Ride into its depths on your trusty wyvern, and lead your customizable party of Knights and Mystics in deep tactical combat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Darkened Northern Lights at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Darkened Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~50% under The Darkened Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Darkened Northern Lights.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~50% under The Darkened Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~50% under The Darkened Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkened Northern Lights.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~50% under The Darkened Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkened Northern Lights.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Darkened Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Darkened Northern Lights.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Darkened Northern Lights on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Darkened Northern Lights.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Darkened Northern Lights.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkened Northern Lights.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
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 Darkened Northern Lights.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkened Northern Lights.
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.
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 Darkened Northern Lights.
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.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkened Northern Lights.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Frequently asked about The Darkened Northern Lights
- How much does The Darkened Northern Lights cost?
- The Darkened Northern Lights is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Darkened Northern Lights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Darkened Northern Lights are Disaster City: Magical Girl Dispatch, The Three Kingdoms Era in China 2000 years ago, Festival.
- Who developed The Darkened Northern Lights?
- The Darkened Northern Lights was developed by Joni Honkanen.
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