Games like Equin: The Lantern
If Equin: The Lantern is your kind of game, the closest matches are Haque, Equin 2: The Warren Peace and Vulture for NetHack — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging 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 Equin: The Lantern: Equin: The Lantern is a challenging roguelike that's easy to get into but tough to master. Conquer the huge 50 floor dungeon and its evil inhabitants in a quest to the bottom of the joint to find the mysterious lantern itself.
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Haque
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Top pick for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
Haque is a glitch fantasy roguelike adventure about cute monsters, low-bit hauntings, and a suspiciously talkative narrator. Choose your character and battle through forests, deserts and dungeons to defeat a mysterious evil. Die often. Try again!
Equin 2: The Warren Peace
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
When an evil wizard writes a 6000-page book to bore the townspeople to death, it's up to you to take the damn thing and return it FROM WHENCE IT CAME.
Vulture for NetHack
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Third-strongest match for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
Vulture for NetHack is an isometric graphical interface for the roguelike engine: NetHack.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
WHY THIS
Shares permadeath, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Ranked #4 for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.
Golden Krone Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Ranked #5 for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
Rogue Fable III
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Ranked #6 for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
Rogue Fable III is a traditional rogue-like game which combines the depth, complexity, and challenge of the genre classics with a shorter, more tightly focused game length.
UFO 50
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a whimsical mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Ranked #7 for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.
Once upon a Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a whimsical mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Ranked #8 for Equin: The Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Equin: The Lantern.
Explore dark dungeons, defeat challenging creatures and collect unique loot in this hardcore traditional roguelike game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Equin: The Lantern at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Equin: The Lantern.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Equin: The Lantern.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Equin: The Lantern.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Equin: The Lantern.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Equin: The Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Equin: The Lantern.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
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).
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
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 Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
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!
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
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Just a Cleric
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Another title from DXF Games, the studio behind Equin: The Lantern. Shares Indie and RPG with Equin: The Lantern.
Help a wussy cleric set out and avenge his dead buddies against a dragon. IT'S CLERIC DE COMMANDO! Visit the forums for demo info!
Weebish Mines
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Another title from DXF Games, the studio behind Equin: The Lantern. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
"Once upon a time, there was a family of 4 who lived in a log cabin by the mines. Everything was cool. But one day somebody left the door open and all their pets ran away! This is the story of how they got them back."
The Outlaw, The Drunk, & The Whore
WHY THIS
Another title from DXF Games, the studio behind Equin: The Lantern. Shares Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
When three unscrupulous jerks meet an early demise, only the devil himself can give 'em another shot at that federal gold! Contains cussin' and such
Bone Appetit
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Equin: The Lantern.
Another title from DXF Games, the studio behind Equin: The Lantern.
When the king declares that all food is now his, whatcha' gonna' do? Raise a skeleton slave to steal it back for you, of course!
Equin 2: The Warren Peace
WHY THIS
Another title from DXF Games, the studio behind Equin: The Lantern. Shares Strategy and Indie with Equin: The Lantern.
When an evil wizard writes a 6000-page book to bore the townspeople to death, it's up to you to take the damn thing and return it FROM WHENCE IT CAME.
Frequently asked about Equin: The Lantern
- How much does Equin: The Lantern cost?
- Equin: The Lantern is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Equin: The Lantern?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Equin: The Lantern are Haque, Equin 2: The Warren Peace, Vulture for NetHack.
- Who developed Equin: The Lantern?
- Equin: The Lantern was developed by DXF Games.
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