Games like Vigil: The Longest Night

The closest matches to Vigil: The Longest Night: Salt and Sanctuary, Death's Gambit: Afterlife, ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights, Afterimage, and GRIME. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Vigil: The Longest Night is your kind of game, the closest matches are Salt and Sanctuary, Death's Gambit: Afterlife and ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, contemplative and dark, and single out its cooldown based spells and dodge rolls with iframes. 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.

Vigil: The Longest Night is a 2D Metroidvania from Glass Heart Games, released in 2020. As Leila of the Vigilant Order, players explore a vast interconnected map in a dark world that has lost its daylight, fighting with souls-like combat across four weapon types, each with its own skill tree, toward multiple endings. It carries a Metacritic score of 75, runs 86% positive of 1,329 Steam reviews, and is Verified on Steam Deck. Reviewers describe an atmospheric, mysterious experience and credit the cooldown-based spells that allow experimentation, the time-bending mechanics tied to the plot, and weapon skill trees that let players specialize. Priced at $21.99, it pairs dark fantasy exploration with a cryptic narrative across its sprawling map.

About Vigil: The Longest Night: Embark on a journey through the longest night with Leila, a valiant member of the Vigilant Order. Delve into the hidden truths shrouded in eternal darkness, unravel the mystery surrounding Leila's enigmatic sister, and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in a world that has lost the light of day.