Games like Dreadlight
If Dreadlight is your kind of game, the closest matches are NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor, Forecast Death and Fading Reel — 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 Dreadlight: Hold back the dark in a horror arena-survival roguelite. Fight inside your lantern's glow, build a six-weapon arsenal, and brave cursed relics. Rising Dread tears scars into the arena that persist between waves. Spend scrap to seal them, or save it for your next upgrade.
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Steam players who put hours into Dreadlight 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.
NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor
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Top pick for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor is a brutal survival roguelite where you’ll face endless hordes of relentless zombies. Choose your survivor and weapons, each with unique abilities and playstyles, and gear up for increasingly intense battles against the undead.
Forecast Death
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Second-strongest match for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
Survive the chaos of a bullet-heaven action game. Tear through enemy hordes, stack wild ability combos, and endure cataclysms that rewrite the rules mid-fight. The pace ramps up every minute - either you grow stronger, or you get wiped out.
Fading Reel
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Third-strongest match for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
A sepia Roguelike — lead a chained squad through 22 waves. Map events split your line, milestone recruits add firepower. Linked Blink, run upgrades, 19 Evolutions, and a permanent meta tree carry you to the final Boss Hydra.
Scrapstorm
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Ranked #4 for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
A 1-4 player bullet-heaven roguelite where the whole city is hunting you. Draft cards every level until one pistol turns into a screen-clearing mess, and watch out for the traffic, the third rail and whatever is running each district.
Ashen Swarm
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Ranked #5 for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
Rise from the ashes and defeat the Judge before his sentence devours the last lands. Cut through a swarm of the condemned in a gothic bullet heaven roguelite, turning the seven deadly sins into weapons. Decide whom to save, doom, or betray. Do not let the verdict become the world's final word.
VOIDHOLD: Squad Survival Roguelite
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Ranked #6 for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
A sci-fi horde-survival roguelite. Lead a four-soldier fireteam, a combat dog and an eagle-drone against endless escalating waves. Chain run-altering synergies, push through 10 biomes, and hold the line at the edge of the void.
Drone Arena
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Ranked #7 for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Dreadlight.
A survivors-like arena roguelite. Pilot a drone, stack weapons and upgrades into absurd builds, and hold out against waves of mechas until the timer runs out. Every run ends. Every run teaches.
Cloud Keeper: Shrine of Dal
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Ranked #8 for Dreadlight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
Summon an army of clouds in this roguelite bullet heaven survivors-like inspired by Korean folklore! Recruit and fuse cloud companions, befriend shrine visitors, and uncover the mystery of the moon goddess!
Free alternatives
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 with Dreadlight.
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 Dreadlight.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadlight.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dreadlight.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadlight.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dreadlight.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Dreadlight
- What games are most similar to Dreadlight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dreadlight are NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor, Forecast Death, Fading Reel.
- Who developed Dreadlight?
- Dreadlight was developed by Odd Lantern 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 Dreadlight.
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