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Games like Retrace the Light
Xiaming Game · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 86 % positive of 173 reviews, as of Oct 28
Dive into the immersive world of Retrace the Light, a captivating 2.5D action-adventure game centered around the "Spatial Retracing" feature. Assume the role of an Enforcer working for a super AI in a futuristic world, exploring the depths of human consciousness and healing their emotional wounds.
24 games that play like Retrace the Light and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Pseudoregalia, FEZ and Hyper Light Drifter.
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Plays and looks like Retrace the Light
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Retrace the Light
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Pseudoregalia
96 % positive of 17,208
Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · 3D Platformer
FEZ
92 % positive of 11,738
Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Puzzle
Hyper Light Drifter
93 % positive of 15,658
Shared: Exploration · Top-Down · Metroidvania
TUNIC
90 % positive of 16,920
Shared: Exploration · Top-Down · Metroidvania
UNSIGHTED
93 % positive of 1,890
Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Souls-like
Axiom Verge
90 % positive of 5,874
Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Indie
Supraland
94 % positive of 12,496
Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · 3D Platformer
Echo Weaver
96 % positive of 127
MIO: Memories in Orbit
82 % positive of 4,752
The Talos Principle
95 % positive of 29,368
Shared: Exploration · Puzzle · Multiple Endings
Metro Gravity
92 % positive of 865
Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · 3D Platformer
Death's Door
92 % positive of 20,465
Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · 3D Platformer
More matches
- Vision Soft Reset90 % positive of 162Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
- Infinitevania91 % positive of 297Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Souls-like
- Hob87 % positive of 4,688Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · 3D Platformer
- The Talos Principle 294 % positive of 12,772Shared: Exploration · 3D Platformer · Puzzle
- BIOMORPH90 % positive of 653Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
- Chroma Zero96 % positive of 325Shared: Exploration · Puzzle · Stylized
- Trinity Fusion85 % positive of 695Shared: Metroidvania · Souls-like · Hack and Slash
- DragonLoop90 % positive of 599Shared: Metroidvania · Action RPG · Action-Adventure
- AWAKEN - Astral Blade81 % positive of 1,144Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Souls-like
- Twilight Monk72 % positive of 322Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · Souls-like
- Blue Fire82 % positive of 1,921Shared: Exploration · Metroidvania · 3D Platformer
- Worldless94 % positive of 1,585Shared: Metroidvania · Action RPG · Action-Adventure
By look
Looks like Retrace the Light
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Soda Crisis
92 % positive of 2,924
COCOON
94 % positive of 8,091
Risk of Rain 2
93 % positive of 242,449
Order of the Sinking Star
95 % positive of 3,140
Orbital Bullet – The 360° Rogue-lite
81 % positive of 614
Assault Android Cactus+
93 % positive of 1,327
TUNIC
90 % positive of 16,920
Gatekeeper
82 % positive of 2,739
Shape of Dreams
88 % positive of 16,606
Journey
94 % positive of 35,067
Dreamscaper
88 % positive of 2,552
MIO: Memories in Orbit
82 % positive of 4,752
More matches
- Nex Machina89 % positive of 1,467
- ITER-869 % positive of 163
- Epistory - Typing Chronicles93 % positive of 4,043
- ENDLESS Dungeon™ - Definitive Edition64 % positive of 2,959
- Knuckle Jet98 % positive of 166
- Floodcore95 % positive of 224
- Archaica: The Path of Light92 % positive of 218
- Spiral Knights83 % positive of 24,267
- Furi90 % positive of 11,294
- ABRISS - build to destroy82 % positive of 450
- Planet of Lana II90 % positive of 943
- Cataclismo88 % positive of 3,960
At a glance
What games like Retrace the Light have in common
- The tags they share most often with Retrace the Light: Exploration (19 of 24), Metroidvania (19) and 3D Platformer (7).
- They came out between 2013 and 2026, 3 of them after Retrace the Light (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Pseudoregalia (96 % positive of 17,208).
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.