Games like Lamplight City
If Lamplight City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kathy Rain, Rosewater and Whispers of a Machine — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and cozy. 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 Lamplight City: A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Players who liked Lamplight City also play
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Kathy Rain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Top pick for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
Rosewater
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Second-strongest match for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
Whispers of a Machine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Third-strongest match for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
The Blackwell Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Ranked #4 for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
When 3 NYU students kill themselves, nobody thinks that a sinister force is at work. Nobody but fledgling medium Rosa Blackwell & her new spirit guide Joey Mallone.
Chinatown Detective Agency
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Ranked #5 for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
Chinatown Detective Agency is a cybernoir point and click adventure blending stunning retro design with innovative mechanics. Play as Amira Darma, an ex-cop who has just opened her own detective agency. Choose your clients, travel around the world and solve dangerous cases using real world research.
Gemini Rue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Ranked #6 for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
The Crimson Diamond
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Ranked #7 for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
Nine Noir Lives
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Ranked #8 for Lamplight City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Stretch your legs, clean your whiskers, and dive into Nine Noir Lives. Enjoy a "point-and-lick" comedy-noir adventure, full of humour, crazy characters, and intriguing locations. Solve challenging puzzles and answer the immortal question: how many things need to be licked to solve a murder in this town?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Lamplight City
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Rosewater
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
Technobabylon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Gemini Rue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Shardlight
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Resonance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
Primordia
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Kathy Rain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
Beyond a Steel Sky
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Lamplight City.
Reviewers of Lamplight City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lamplight City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
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 Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
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 Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
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 Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
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 Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
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 Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Lamplight City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Lamplight City.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lamplight City.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Lamplight City.
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.
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Frequently asked about Lamplight City
- Does Lamplight City run on Steam Deck?
- Lamplight City 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 Lamplight City cost?
- Lamplight City is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lamplight City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lamplight City are Kathy Rain, Rosewater, Whispers of a Machine.
- Who developed Lamplight City?
- Lamplight City was developed by Grundislav Games and published by Application Systems Heidelberg.
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