Games like The Buried Light
If The Buried Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zero Distance, GLIMPO and Destropolis 2 — 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 Buried Light: In this action-roguelike arena shooter, ancient trees have evolved into botanical spacecrafts. Reclaim the sun from a cosmic god by crafting custom bullets across 4 modular slots, selectively breeding endless upgrades, and unleashing devastating firepower to survive unforgiving bullet-hell waves.
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Zero Distance
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Top pick for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
Fight overwhelming zombie hordes in a 3D bullet heaven where packing your case shapes your firepower. Arrange weapons, gear and supplies to unleash fire, lightning and explosive combinations. Survive 20 minutes, defeat the boss and earn your extraction.
GLIMPO
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Second-strongest match for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
Fight endless waves of enemies in this arcade roguelite shooter. Build and level up your skillset, unlock synergies and become ridiculously overpowered!
Destropolis 2
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Third-strongest match for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Buried Light.
Hordes of red cube enemies. Bullets, lasers and nukes. Cities to raze to the ground.
ActionSteam ↗Scrapstorm
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Ranked #4 for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
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.
Gearomancer
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Ranked #5 for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
Step into the mechanical apocalypse in Gearomancer, a fast-paced twin-stick action roguelite. Play as elite V.E.R.T.E.X. agents to dodge brutal bullet hells and obliterate elemental horrors. Harvest Arcane crystals, forge permanent upgrades at your hub, and die to return stronger than ever.
Retrobot: 2085
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Ranked #6 for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
Retrobot: 2085 is a fast, frantic twin-stick arcade shooter with endless robot hordes, survivor rescues, high-score chasing, extra lives, and chaotic 4-player local multiplayer.
Pit Wizard
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Ranked #7 for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
Pit Wizard is a short top-down shooter with incremental progression where you play as a wizard custodian. Jump into magical pits, clean up hordes of dangerous enemies, and mine rare resources while developing two massive skill trees.
Meowmunitions Survivor
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Ranked #8 for The Buried Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
Meowmunitions Survivor is a bullet-heaven arena shooter with the unique augmenting system incorporated from Meowmunitions.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Buried Light.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Buried Light.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Buried Light.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Buried Light.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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- What games are most similar to The Buried Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Buried Light are Zero Distance, GLIMPO, Destropolis 2.
- Who developed The Buried Light?
- The Buried Light was developed by Lupittus and published by Red Apple Swimming In The Green River 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 The Buried Light.
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