Games like Skylight
If Skylight is your kind of game, the closest matches are Flotilla 2, Strife: The Expanse and BATTLETECH — 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 Skylight: Skylight is a turn-based tactics game of colossal space battles, with VR and non-VR versions. Command nimble squadrons of fighters, specialized frigates, and giant capital ships as you orchestrate your forces toward victory.
Players who liked Skylight also play
Steam players who put hours into Skylight 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.
Flotilla 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Flotilla 2 is a VR tactical game about big battleships in outer space.
Strife: The Expanse
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Strife: The Expanse is a Hex-Grid style turn based strategy game. Recruit an assortment of units from across the expanse and do battle with your friends or AI on procedurally generated battlegrounds! FFA, Team Elimination or Capture the Flag! Use various game-mode options to control how you play!
BATTLETECH
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skylight.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skylight.
In Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ you’ll take command of the Colonial Fleet in defense of the Twelve Colonies during the First Cylon War. Lead many different types of ships in this 3D tactical game. Every decision counts, your strategy will be vital – can you ensure mankind’s survival?
Demeo
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!
Horizon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.
Nexus 5X
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, EXPRESS. All of the depth, diplomacy, conflict and conquest of a turn-based 4X epic but played in fast-paced 60-minute competitive sessions. Play Solo or Multiplayer for 2-8 players.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Skylight fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skylight.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skylight at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skylight.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skylight.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skylight.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Skylight.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Skylight on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skylight.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Indie with Skylight.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skylight.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skylight.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skylight.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Skylight.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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More from E McNeill
Other recommendable Steam games by E McNeill, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ironlights
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Skylight.
Ironlights is a VR dueling game with skillful, fluid melee combat. Parry, block, and strike down your opponents using a variety of physics-based weapons. Test your skills in multiplayer battles, or fight to the top of the league in the huge single-player campaign!
Auralux: Constellations
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Skylight. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Auralux: Constellations is the awaited sequel to Auralux, the critically acclaimed minimalistic Real Time Strategy game. Explore a dozen new gameplay mechanics through each constellation, one new feature at a time. It's Real-Time Strategy, deconstructed.
Darknet
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Skylight. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Darknet is a strategy/puzzle game in which you play as an elite hacker in the Net. Plug into cyberspace, using viruses, worms, and exploits to steal the data before your signal gets traced. Includes both VR and non-VR versions.
Tactera
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Skylight. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Tactera is a Real-Time Strategy game played on a “virtual tabletop”. Comes with VR (Rift/Vive) and non-VR versions! Inside a futuristic war room, a 3D hologram shows two armies on the verge of battle. Build swarms of gunships, tanks, bombers, and other units to strategically outmaneuver the enemy!
Astraeus
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Skylight. Shares Strategy and Indie with Skylight.
Astraeus is a VR asteroid mining RTS game that's quick to play, easy to learn, and enormous in scope. Build a mining network from dozens of bases, and watch as hundreds of ships swarm around you.
IRONSTRIKE
WHY THIS
Another title from E McNeill, the studio behind Skylight.
IRONSTRIKE is a 4-player co-op roguelike featuring physics-based swordplay, gestural spellcasting, and archery. Wield a sword, bow & arrow, or magic, and customize your build as you fight to rescue the gods of a vibrant fantasy world.
Frequently asked about Skylight
- How much does Skylight cost?
- Skylight is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Skylight have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Skylight supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Skylight?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skylight are Flotilla 2, Strife: The Expanse, BATTLETECH.
- Who developed Skylight?
- Skylight was developed by E McNeill.
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 Skylight.
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