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Sunnyside Games · 2023 · 91 % positive of 353

24 games that play like Nocturnal and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Candleman: The Complete Journey, Armed with Wings: Rearmed and Imp of the Sun.

Player tags

  • Side Scroller
  • Action-Adventure
  • Linear
  • Exploration
  • Narration
  • Action
  • Hand-drawn
  • Mystery

At a glance

What games like Nocturnal have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Nocturnal: Side Scroller (13 of 24), Exploration (13) and Action-Adventure (12).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2026, 6 of them after Nocturnal (2023).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Hollow Knight (97 % positive of 415,946).
  • 5 games both play and look like Nocturnal, among them AWAKEN - Astral Blade, Deepening Fire and Elypse.

By gameplay

Plays like Nocturnal

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Moonscars83 % positive of 1,205Shared: Side Scroller · Action-Adventure · 2D Platformer
  2. Duskfade92 % positive of 1,090
  3. Blue Fire81 % positive of 2,869Shared: Action-Adventure · Exploration · Platformer
  4. The Devil Within: Satgat81 % positive of 781Shared: Side Scroller · Action-Adventure · Exploration
  5. Void Memory67 % positive of 224Shared: Side Scroller · Exploration · Hand-drawn
  6. Dragon's Wake88 % positive of 425Shared: Platformer · Action · 2D
  7. Hollow Knight97 % positive of 415,946Shared: Side Scroller · Exploration · Hand-drawn
  8. Akatori74 % positive of 367
  9. Outland80 % positive of 3,935Shared: Platformer · Action · 2D
  10. Obsurity72 % positive of 246Shared: Exploration · Action · 2D
  11. Astalon: Tears of the Earth90 % positive of 1,211Shared: Side Scroller · Action-Adventure · Exploration
  12. Strayed Lights80 % positive of 435Shared: Action-Adventure · Action · Singleplayer

By look

Looks like Nocturnal

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Salt and Sacrifice62 % positive of 1,472
  2. Afterimage77 % positive of 8,404
  3. Salt and Sanctuary89 % positive of 20,652
  4. OVERLORD: ESCAPE FROM NAZARICK65 % positive of 500
  5. Minoria81 % positive of 2,488
  6. Nine Sols95 % positive of 28,896
  7. Dead Cells97 % positive of 168,464
  8. Dark Devotion75 % positive of 2,344
  9. Fall of Light: Darkest Edition54 % positive of 317
  10. Momodora: Moonlit Farewell92 % positive of 2,759
  11. Sands of Aura76 % positive of 755
  12. INAYAH - Life after Gods87 % positive of 181

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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