Games Like Northern Lights

💀🧩🕹️ Beyond The Darkness is a horror adventure game with puzzles where you help little girl Milly battle nightmares in the darkness to find her missing family. You will find yourself in bizarre worlds of memories, distorted by fears, and your only weapon will be the light of a small lamp...

Why similar: Horror 16.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.1%, 2.5D 13.1%, Dark 9%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

A dark tale of survival and conscience, blending platforming, puzzles, and haunting beauty. Journey through surreal lands where every choice shapes the fate of a world on the edge of ruin will you restore the light or embrace the darkness?

Why similar: Stealth 14.7%, 2.5D 13.9%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Dark 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9%

The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.

Why similar: Stealth 13.1%, Puzzle Platformer 12.3%, Dystopian 12%, Dark 8.5%, Horror 7.9%

Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

Why similar: Dystopian 14.5%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Adventure 12%, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 10%

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 42.5%, Mystery 19.8%, Atmospheric 18.9%, Exploration 11.8%, Singleplayer 4.6%

A lonely kid desperately tries to escape his dark world.

Why similar: Dark 12.3%, 2.5D 12.2%, Dystopian 11.9%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 7.1%

After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?

Why similar: Dystopian 15.4%, 2.5D 11.4%, Puzzle Platformer 10.8%, Stealth 10.6%, Dark 6.9%

A sidescrolling 3D adventure shortgame that combines multiple genres and features various action and puzzle sequences. Its artistic approach is supported by powerful visuals, intense atmosphere and a unique game narrative on the boundaries of science-fiction and fantasy.

Why similar: Dystopian 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Mystery 8.7%

Night Lights is a relaxing puzzle platformer where you manipulate light and shadow to guide a small robot through a calm, atmospheric world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.8%, Puzzle 16.4%, Platformer 13.3%, Story Rich 13.1%, Action 11.2%

Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

Why similar: Mystery 13.5%, Puzzle 13.4%, Dark 11.9%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Platformer 10.5%

Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Mystery 12.7%, Dark 11.1%, Horror 10.9%

[SUBJECT] is a first-person psychological horror game. You wake up confused in a dark room, not knowing where you are. The last thing you remember is a robotic voice echoing through you ears. How you got here or why is unclear, but you do know one thing: You're being watched.

Why similar: Dystopian 19.8%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Dark 9.8%, Horror 9.7%

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Stealth 14.8%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Dark 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.9%

A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.

Why similar: Dystopian 32.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Dark 9.7%, Adventure 9.6%

SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.

Why similar: Stealth 27.7%, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Story Rich 10.3%, Puzzle 9.3%

You have arrived in a forest where people are rumored to disappear and strange things happen... Locals often see bright flashes and hear strange sounds...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.1%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 15%, Mystery 13.9%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.

Why similar: Adventure 19.2%, Action 17.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Platformer 11%, Dark 8.6%

OWL WATCH is a short atmospheric adventure game where you travel around in different biomes. Awaken from your slumber as you venture out to seek ancient technology to aid you in a time of darkness.

Why similar: Adventure 24.9%, Action 24.2%, Walking Simulator 21.9%, Indie 19.9%, Exploration 6.2%

A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.

Why similar: Dark 19.2%, Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Story Rich 12.8%, Atmospheric 12%

Thousands of years after the activation of the Vesper Protocol, a small android crosses a fallen world, hunted by merciless machines, to control the power of Light and decide the fate of his race.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Sci-fi 17.7%, Puzzle 10.8%, Story Rich 9.2%, Platformer 8.7%

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Dark 11%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Mystery 8.9%, Story Rich 7.7%

Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Horror 13.3%, Dark 12.6%, Mystery 8.1%

Nordlicht is an adventure-game where you accompany an unusual family on its fascinating journey to the cold north. During the journey, they encounter mysterious star-signs of the polar night, and have to overcome nature's dangers to confront their fears.

Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Indie 25.7%, Mystery 15%, Story Rich 10.4%, Puzzle 9.4%

You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 13.1%, Dark 13.1%, Mystery 11%

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.9%, Dark 14.7%, Puzzle 10%, Platformer 8.1%, Horror 8%

Explore an unknown and abandoned world. Each step, each puzzle, brings you closer to discovering the history and secrets of a lost civilization. Can you find the light?

Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.9%, Mystery 24.1%, Puzzle 10.8%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Indie 8.2%

A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.4%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Dark 7.9%

This is a story of light - of Gleam, in a world of glass stained in darkness.

Why similar: Action 34.8%, Adventure 33.7%, Indie 25.5%, Atmospheric 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Adventure 18.9%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Action 12.9%, Indie 11.8%, Mystery 8.6%

S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored is a science fiction FPS puzzle horror game, which takes place a few months after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster. Experience a tale about an unexplored area within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone - The S.W.A.N. Institute.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 16%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Dark 11.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Horror 10.5%

You are the Mooseman and you have the ability to see all that is hidden to the mortal eye. You are about to visit three layers of this universe - the first one is the Lower World where dead reside…

Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Atmospheric 25.2%, Indie 21.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Puzzle 8.7%

An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground. As Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother missing, drill downward from the surface layer through a tile-based underground and discover the Everdeep.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.9%, Mystery 18.2%, Adventure 14.9%, Indie 10.9%, Exploration 8.1%

A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.

Why similar: Dystopian 21.7%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Dark 11.3%, Mystery 10.9%

Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Adventure 15.4%, Action 14.8%, Indie 12.3%, Sci-fi 11%

You play as Dylan Miller, a night security guard assigned to watch over the nearly abandoned Northgate Mall. What starts as a quiet shift of cameras and radio calls slowly turns into a night where something inside the mall doesn’t want to stay hidden.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Stealth 18.4%, Adventure 14.1%, Action 10.5%, Mystery 10%

Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and barely any traces of human life remain. You will have to use all your ingenuity to escape and avoid becoming the meal of the hideous denizens.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.6%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Mystery 12%, Stealth 10.3%, Dark 8.6%

Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...

Why similar: Adventure 19.6%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Puzzle 12.1%, Horror 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%

During an expedition to the Moon, two astronauts find themselves in a familiar town back on Earth. They soon discover the town is the beginning of a strange and mysterious journey...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Sci-fi 13%, Dark 12.4%, Story Rich 8.7%

Doorways is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 25.1%, Adventure 11.3%, Dark 10.4%, Walking Simulator 10.1%, Action 9.7%

Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.

Why similar: Dystopian 18.8%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Mystery 15.3%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Dark 8.7%

You are the Nightslink. Traverse abandoned roads under cover of night. Deliver cassette tapes in a post-apocalyptic world. An atmospheric retro-3D horror adventure.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.9%, Dystopian 20.6%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 11.7%, Mystery 8.8%

They have no names, only serial numbers. They have no freedom, no memories from the past. You are one of them. Explore the last center of civilization on a shattered Earth to understand what is really going on.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.3%, Adventure 20.6%, Mystery 17.9%, Indie 14.2%, Atmospheric 10.6%

Keep the Lights On is an atmospheric horror game where you step in the shoes of Edmund Rosental, a private detective, who is tasked with investigating an old abbey and the mystery surrounding it. Will he be able to keep the lights on or will he succumb to the darkness

Why similar: Adventure 21.4%, Horror 18.7%, Mystery 15%, Platformer 12.7%, Atmospheric 10.9%

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.3%, Horror 12.1%, Mystery 11.6%, Puzzle 11.5%, Platformer 7.7%

Unveil the truth in a genre-blending sci-fi mystery. Awaken from cryogenic slumber you find your shelter damaged by unknown circumstances. Scavenge your surroundings, repair the shelter and explore the ruins in hopes of uncovering – or perhaps avoiding – the uncomfortable truth of what has transpired.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Adventure 19%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Mystery 15.3%, Indie 14.2%

PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, Mystery 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Horror 8.9%

A top-down action-adventure game as you collect & solve puzzles in order for you to explore & unravel this mysterious world.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Mystery 21.1%, Dark 12.7%, Action 11%, Adventure 9.8%

Experience the altered memories of a dying man, reliving his entire life as a little boy while lying on his deathbed. Explore the profound depths of his subconscious as you assist Griffin to shed the remains of his miserable life before his impending demise.

Why similar: 2.5D 13.6%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Stealth 12.7%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Dark 8%

Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.7%, Walking Simulator 14.3%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Indie 10.9%, Adventure 10%

Solarix is a science-fiction stealth/horror game, set in world that overpowers you with unease, insecurity, and desperation, forcing you to confront your own role in the horrors to come.

Why similar: Stealth 30.7%, Sci-fi 14%, Horror 13.6%, Action 13.1%, Indie 9.4%

Step into the shoes of a researcher in the depths of the antarctic and uncover the mysteries behind Project Hailstorm.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.2%, Horror 13%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Mystery 12.6%, Dark 9.7%

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Adventure 21.1%, Indie 16.4%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

The Silent Swan is a contemplative first-person narrative experience across a megalithic, derelict world. Mixing elements from both walking simulator and open levels.

Why similar: Dystopian 20.3%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Dark 14.1%, Mystery 12.3%, Story Rich 7.8%

An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, Platformer 10.6%, Action 10.2%

On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.

Why similar: Sci-fi 19.6%, Dark 16.5%, Horror 11.4%, Action 10.9%, Atmospheric 10.7%

Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.

Why similar: Adventure 16%, Walking Simulator 15%, Indie 14.2%, Horror 12.6%, Dark 10.9%

You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Psychological Horror 16%, Horror 10.3%, Dark 8.8%, Adventure 8.3%

Complete physics-based platformer puzzles as you venture deeper into an abandoned research facility responsible for developing ominously powerful quantum entanglement technology.

Why similar: Sci-fi 22.4%, Puzzle 16.3%, Story Rich 13.6%, Adventure 11.9%, Atmospheric 10.5%

Grimind is a 2D, physics based, adventure, platform game in horror/creepy theme. Grimind casts you into forgotten caves and ancient crypts, without memories. While being there you have to demonstrate great manual skills to pass obstacles and solve non trivial puzzles to get out of scary environment and additionally discover what are you...

Why similar: Indie 22.7%, Platformer 20.9%, Adventure 19.2%, Horror 17.9%, Action 10.3%