Games like Deadlight on PlayStation
Closest overall match: Electronic Super Joy (★ 3.5). Highest rated: TowerFall Ascension at ★ 3.9. Quickest to finish: Electronic Super Joy at about 2 hours.
We compared Deadlight against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 9 came closest. What ties them together most: 2D, Great Soundtrack and Side Scroller.
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63%
1. Electronic Super Joy
Shares Short, Side Scroller, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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61%
2. Deadlight: Director's Cut
Shares 2.5D, Post-apocalyptic, Side Scroller, Zombies and 2D and 3 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 4, 83
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60%
3. TowerFall Ascension
Shares Controller, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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59%
4. Risk of Rain
Shares Side Scroller, Survival, Great Soundtrack, 2D and steam-trading-cards and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
5. Freedom Planet
Shares Side Scroller, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
6. Awesomenauts
Shares Side Scroller, Controller, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.6 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 20%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
7. La-Mulana
Shares Side Scroller, Controller, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 25%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
8. Outland
Shares Controller, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.7 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
9. BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Shares 2.5D, Side Scroller, Controller, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 4 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 49%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Deadlight on PlayStation?
On our similarity model, Electronic Super Joy is the closest match to Deadlight on PlayStation — shares Short, Side Scroller, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; released within 1 year.
Which game like Deadlight is rated highest?
TowerFall Ascension holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.9/5 from 290 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Deadlight on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.