Games like illumine
If illumine is your kind of game, the closest matches are CreatorCrate, A Valley Without Wind and Dungeon Souls — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its rewards creative analytical thinking, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 illumine: Experience a different take on the roguelike genre. Explore a world created on the fly by your actions. Wonder about your purpose.
Players who liked illumine also play
Steam players who put hours into illumine 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.
CreatorCrate
WHY THIS
Top pick for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
A fast, chaotic, and totally unique platformer with roguelike elements. Outsmart everything that wants you dead with your grabby robot arm. Rampage through a massive circular space station. Grab, stab, block, throw, and devour your enemies! More than run and shoot: improvise and CREATE!
A Valley Without Wind
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with illumine.
Second-strongest match for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Nary
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Nary is a hardcore pseudo-endless runner about multitasking. If you want to survive, you'll have to both avoid the randomly generated obstacles and defeat your foes by mashing correct button sequences!
Delver
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with illumine.
Ranked #5 for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
TowerClimb
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with illumine.
Ranked #6 for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
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Unexplored
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with illumine.
Ranked #8 for illumine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
The ROGUELITE that feels like a ROGUELIKE. Praised for its fantastically generated dungeons, real-time combat and surprising amount of content and depth. One of the BEST GAMES OF THE YEAR according to PC Gamer and VICE Waypoint.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below illumine at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under illumine on Steam right now. Shares Action with illumine.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under illumine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under illumine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with illumine.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under illumine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under illumine on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with illumine.
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.
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 illumine.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
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).
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with illumine.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Spiral Knights
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with illumine.
Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.
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Frequently asked about illumine
- How much does illumine cost?
- illumine is listed on Steam at 0.89 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to illumine?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside illumine are CreatorCrate, A Valley Without Wind, Dungeon Souls.
- Who developed illumine?
- illumine was developed by Dejima.
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 illumine.
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