Games like Lantern Bearer
If Lantern Bearer is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Death Into Trouble, RITE and Juno's Darkest Hour — 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 Lantern Bearer: Lantern Bearer is a tough platformer about a small bear that falls into a dark and mysterious well. Choose your own path and claw your way back to the surface.
Players who liked Lantern Bearer also play
Steam players who put hours into Lantern Bearer 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.
The Death Into Trouble
WHY THIS
Top pick for Lantern Bearer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Help The Death to undo his mess, collect souls between heaven, purgatory and hell. Run, Jump, Hide and Explore!
RITE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lantern Bearer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim.
Juno's Darkest Hour
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lantern Bearer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Juno’s Darkest Hour is a simple but challenging 2D action adventure platformer game inspired by the side-scrollers of the past. Explore the secrets of a vast monochromatic world. Will you succeed against all odds, or will you die over and over again?
BZZZT
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Lantern Bearer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
Tiny Thor
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Lantern Bearer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Jump into this challenging retro platformer! Play as Thor, use his mighty hammer and unique items to explore the Northern Realms. Beware of mythical creatures blocking your path to become a god!
Downwell
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Lantern Bearer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Lantern Bearer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lantern Bearer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
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 ~50% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
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 ~50% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Lantern Bearer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Lantern Bearer.
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.
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 Lantern Bearer.
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 Indie with Lantern Bearer.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
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 Lantern Bearer.
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 with Lantern Bearer.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BZZZT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
Tiny Thor
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Lantern Bearer.
Jump into this challenging retro platformer! Play as Thor, use his mighty hammer and unique items to explore the Northern Realms. Beware of mythical creatures blocking your path to become a god!
Frequently asked about Lantern Bearer
- How much does Lantern Bearer cost?
- Lantern Bearer is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lantern Bearer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lantern Bearer are The Death Into Trouble, RITE, Juno's Darkest Hour.
- Who developed Lantern Bearer?
- Lantern Bearer was developed by kumakare.
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 Lantern Bearer.
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