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Games like Northern Lights

MadGoat Studio · 2020 · 68 % positive of 285

24 games that play like Northern Lights and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Winter Survival, The Long Dark and Arctic Anxiety.

Player tags

  • Early Access
  • Open World Survival Craft
  • Survival
  • Open World
  • Exploration
  • Atmospheric
  • Sandbox
  • Crafting

At a glance

What games like Northern Lights have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Northern Lights: Survival (24 of 24), Open World (19) and Open World Survival Craft (13).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 14 of them after Northern Lights (2020).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Don't Starve (96 % positive of 109,816).
  • 4 games both play and look like Northern Lights, among them Winter Survival, Open Country and Survival: Lost Way.

By gameplay

Plays like Northern Lights

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

More matches

  1. Start Over64 % positive of 350Shared: Survival · Open World · Exploration
  2. Erzurum40 % positive of 4,735Shared: Survival · Open World · Exploration
  3. Starsand66 % positive of 1,157Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
  4. Artemishea50 % positive of 269Shared: Survival · Exploration · Sandbox
  5. Survisland / 实境求生63 % positive of 1,533Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
  6. Survival: Lost Way35 % positive of 258Shared: Survival · Crafting · Simulation
  7. Among Trees68 % positive of 2,160Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
  8. The Infected85 % positive of 6,586Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
  9. Rem Survival75 % positive of 792Shared: Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Open World
  10. Impact Winter40 % positive of 437Shared: Survival · Crafting · Simulation
  11. Ice World60 % positive of 1,079Shared: Survival · Crafting · Post-apocalyptic
  12. Echo of the Wilds76 % positive of 194Shared: Survival · Open World · Exploration

By look

Looks like Northern Lights

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

More matches

  1. THE MEME HUNTER71 % positive of 212
  2. Nighthunt54 % positive of 251
  3. Hold Your Own68 % positive of 571
  4. Rem Survival75 % positive of 792
  5. SCUM74 % positive of 112,115
  6. Mist Survival76 % positive of 13,456
  7. Hauntsville70 % positive of 193
  8. Open Country36 % positive of 404
  9. Hurtworld76 % positive of 31,158
  10. Frigore61 % positive of 287
  11. Farmer's Life: Prologue71 % positive of 235
  12. Woodlands29 % positive of 301

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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