Games like Dark and Light
If Dark and Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are Citadel: Forged with Fire, ATLAS and Other Realms: Dwarves & more Dwarves — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building is creative, content is huge and magic is fun. 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 →Dark and Light is a sandbox survival RPG developed by Snail Games USA, released in 2017 at $17.99. Set in an open-world fantasy environment, it features building, crafting, harvesting, magic, pet evolution, and skill trees as core mechanics. Players describe the experience as dark, immersive, and stressful. Reviewers highlight the building system as creative, the world as massive with extensive content, magic as fun, and the taming and pet evolution system as particularly noteworthy. The game offers online cooperative multiplayer and supports Playable status on Steam Deck. According to Steam reviews, it holds a 51% positive rating from over 5,000 reviews, with players noting the challenging difficulty and substantial length.
About Dark and Light: Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Players who liked Dark and Light also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark and Light 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.
Citadel: Forged with Fire
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dark and Light.
Top pick for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
ATLAS
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Dark and Light.
Second-strongest match for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Other Realms: Dwarves & more Dwarves
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dark and Light.
Other Realms: Dwarves & more Dwarves is a dwarves based survival multiplayer game. Craft and build your kingdom piece by piece for your dwarves. Set foundations, forge devices and conquer your dwarven realm.
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Dark and Light.
Ranked #4 for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Myth of Empires
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and a stressful mood with Dark and Light.
Ranked #5 for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Day of Dragons
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Dark and Light.
Ranked #6 for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Dark and Light.
Day of Dragons is an online creature survival game set in a large, beautiful, sandbox open world with multiple biomes and distinct creatures. Rule the world as one of several dragon species, or play as an elemental.
Wild Terra 2: New Lands
WHY THIS
Shares crafting with Dark and Light.
Ranked #7 for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Dark and Light.
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Life is Feudal: Your Own
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dark and Light.
Ranked #8 for Dark and Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Dark and Light.
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dark and Light
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7 Days to Die
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Dark and Light.
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Rust
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Dark and Light.
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dark and Light.
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
ARK Park
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
In ARK Park, engage in close encounters with primal species through a series of theme park attractions. Enter by yourself or with a group of adventurous friends, and witness dinosaurs roaming in the wild with your own eyes!
PixARK
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
ARK: Survival Ascended
WHY THIS
Shares taming, crafting and a stressful mood with Dark and Light.
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Outlaws of the Old West
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dark and Light.
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Conan Chop Chop
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark and Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark and Light at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Dark and Light on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Dark and Light.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dark and Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dark and Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark and Light.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dark and Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with Dark and Light.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dark and Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Dark and Light.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark and Light.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Dark and Light.
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 Adventure with Dark and Light.
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.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Dark and Light.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Dark and Light.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Dark and Light.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from Snail Games USA
Other recommendable Steam games by Snail Games USA, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
PixARK
WHY THIS
Another title from Snail Games USA, the studio behind Dark and Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dark and Light.
Another title from Snail Games USA, the studio behind Dark and Light. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark and Light.
In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.
Conquest of Empires
WHY THIS
Another title from Snail Games USA, the studio behind Dark and Light. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Dark and Light.
【Establish Great Civilizations】 In the land of the seven continents, set up your military base and develop the internal and diplomatic affairs. Call up your heroes and troops, and learn how to take advantage of different kinds and formations of units to defeat the strong with the weak.
Frequently asked about Dark and Light
- Does Dark and Light run on Steam Deck?
- Dark and Light is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Dark and Light cost?
- Dark and Light is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dark and Light have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dark and Light supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dark and Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark and Light are Citadel: Forged with Fire, ATLAS, Other Realms: Dwarves & more Dwarves.
- Who developed Dark and Light?
- Dark and Light was developed by Snail Games USA.
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