Games like Deadlight on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: Mark of the Ninja (★ 4.0). 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 7 came closest. What ties them together most: 2D, Side Scroller and Great Soundtrack.
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64%
1. Mark of the Ninja
Shares Short, Side Scroller, Controller, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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63%
2. 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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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. 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%
7. 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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What is the best game like Deadlight on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, Mark of the Ninja is the closest match to Deadlight on Nintendo Switch — shares Short, Side Scroller, Controller, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; same release year.
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.