Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Touhou Luna Nights (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Touhou Luna Nights on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which both difficult.
- Touhou Luna Nights is tagged Metroidvania, Difficult, Side Scroller, Exploration, Bullet Hell, Platformer, Action-Adventure, RPG by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 1 are free to download, so you can test the resemblance yourself at no cost.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 11 player tags including Metroidvania, RPG and Female Protagonist; released around the same time (2019).
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night at a glance Released 2019 Studio ArtPlay Player sentiment 93% positive of 41,617 Price $39.99 MetroidvaniaRPGFemale ProtagonistAnimeSide ScrollerPlatformerGreat SoundtrackExploration
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Celeste
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 9 player tags including Difficult, Pixel Graphics and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2018).
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Celeste at a glance Released 2018 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 97% positive of 146,352 Price $4.99 DifficultPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackIndiePlatformerFemale Protagonist2DSide Scroller
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Hollow Knight
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 9 player tags including Metroidvania, Platformer and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2017).
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Hollow Knight at a glance Released 2017 Studio Team Cherry Player sentiment 97% positive of 559,290 Price $14.99 MetroidvaniaPlatformerGreat Soundtrack2DDifficultIndieExplorationController
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CrossCode
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 9 player tags including Pixel Graphics, RPG and Female Protagonist; released around the same time (2018).
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
CrossCode at a glance Released 2018 Studio Radical Fish Games Player sentiment 92% positive of 18,408 Price $19.99 Pixel GraphicsRPGFemale ProtagonistIndieGreat Soundtrack2DAnimeAction-Adventure
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Cave Story
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 9 player tags including Platformer, Metroidvania and Indie.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Cave Story at a glance Released 2004 Studio Daisuke Amaya Player sentiment 93% positive of 8,305 Price $14.99 PlatformerMetroidvaniaIndieGreat SoundtrackPixel Graphics2DExplorationDifficult
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Metroidvania, Platformer and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2020).
Play the critically acclaimed masterpiece. Embark on a new journey in a vast, exotic world where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to unravel Ori’s destiny.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps at a glance Released 2020 Studio Moon Studios Player sentiment 97% positive of 146,084 Price $29.99 MetroidvaniaPlatformerGreat SoundtrackExplorationAction-Adventure2DIndieDifficult
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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Great Soundtrack, Metroidvania and Platformer; released around the same time (2016).
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition at a glance Released 2016 Studio Moon Studios GmbH Player sentiment 95% positive of 71,430 Price $19.99 Great SoundtrackMetroidvaniaPlatformerDifficult2DIndieSide ScrollerController
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Skul: The Hero Slayer
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Indie, Pixel Graphics and 2D; released around the same time (2021).
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
Skul: The Hero Slayer at a glance Released 2021 Studio SOUTHPAW GAMES Player sentiment 93% positive of 57,566 Price $19.99 IndiePixel Graphics2DPlatformerMetroidvaniaDifficultSide ScrollerAction-Adventure
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Hyper Light Drifter
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack and Indie; released around the same time (2016).
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Hyper Light Drifter at a glance Released 2016 Studio Heart Machine Player sentiment 93% positive of 19,135 Price $19.99 Pixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackIndieDifficultExplorationRPG2DMetroidvania
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Rogue Legacy 2
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Metroidvania, Platformer and Indie; released around the same time (2022).
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Rogue Legacy 2 at a glance Released 2022 Studio Cellar Door Games Player sentiment 91% positive of 15,128 Price $24.99 MetroidvaniaPlatformerIndieRPGDifficult2DSide ScrollerGreat Soundtrack
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Blasphemous
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Metroidvania, Pixel Graphics and 2D; released around the same time (2019).
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Blasphemous at a glance Released 2019 Studio The Game Kitchen Player sentiment 90% positive of 66,881 Price $24.99 MetroidvaniaPixel Graphics2DIndieDifficultPlatformerGreat SoundtrackSide Scroller
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Dust: An Elysian Tail
Why it matched: shares 10 player tags including Platformer, Metroidvania and Indie.
Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.
Dust: An Elysian Tail at a glance Released 2013 Studio Humble Hearts LLC Player sentiment 95% positive of 19,062 Price $14.99 PlatformerMetroidvaniaIndieRPG2DGreat SoundtrackExplorationController
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ICEY
Why it matched: shares 9 player tags including Female Protagonist, Anime and Side Scroller; released around the same time (2016).
ICEY is a 2D side-scrolling action game and a META game in disguise. As you follow the narrator's omnipresent voice, you will see through ICEY's eyes and learn the truth about her world. The narrator will constantly urge you in one direction, but you must ask, "Why? Why am I following his directions?“ Obey? Rebel?
ICEY at a glance Released 2016 Studio FantaBlade Network Player sentiment 90% positive of 27,873 Price $10.99 Female ProtagonistAnimeSide ScrollerIndie2DRPGGreat SoundtrackMetroidvania
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VVVVVV
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Pixel Graphics, Platformer and Indie.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
VVVVVV at a glance Released 2010 Studio Terry Cavanagh Player sentiment 96% positive of 10,540 Price $4.99 Pixel GraphicsPlatformerIndieGreat SoundtrackDifficult2DExplorationMetroidvania
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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Platformer, Pixel Graphics and Great Soundtrack.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove at a glance Released 2014 Studio Yacht Club Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 16,898 Price $39.99 PlatformerPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackIndie2DDifficultSide ScrollerRPG
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Super Meat Boy
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Platformer, Difficult and Indie.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Super Meat Boy at a glance Released 2010 Studio Team Meat Player sentiment 94% positive of 39,100 Price $14.99 PlatformerDifficultIndiePixel Graphics2DGreat SoundtrackControllerSide Scroller
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Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Platformer, 2D and Metroidvania.
A crazy action-adventure platformer... In Hell.
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit at a glance Released 2012 Studio Arkedo Player sentiment 85% positive of 3,724 Price $14.99 Platformer2DMetroidvaniaGreat SoundtrackSide ScrollerIndieControllerDifficult
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Outland
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Platformer, Metroidvania and 2D.
Outland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos.
Outland at a glance Released 2014 Studio Housemarque Player sentiment 80% positive of 3,947 Price Not listed PlatformerMetroidvania2DIndieBullet HellControllerGreat SoundtrackDifficult
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Katana ZERO
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 7 player tags including Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack and Platformer; released around the same time (2019).
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Katana ZERO at a glance Released 2019 Studio Askiisoft Player sentiment 98% positive of 76,036 Price $14.99 Pixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackPlatformerIndie2DDifficultTime Manipulation
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Cuphead
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 7 player tags including Difficult, Platformer and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2017).
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Cuphead at a glance Released 2017 Studio Studio MDHR Player sentiment 96% positive of 220,388 Price $19.99 DifficultPlatformerGreat Soundtrack2DIndieBullet HellSide Scroller
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ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 7 player tags including Metroidvania, Female Protagonist and Great Soundtrack; released around the same time (2021).
ENDER LILIES is a dark fantasy 2D action RPG about unraveling the mysteries of a destroyed kingdom. On this sorrowful journey, encounter horrific enemies against whom a moment of inattention could be fatal. Overcome these hardships and seek the truth with the help of fallen knights.
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights at a glance Released 2021 Studio Live Wire Player sentiment 94% positive of 45,705 Price $24.99 MetroidvaniaFemale ProtagonistGreat Soundtrack2DDifficultIndieAnime
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TUNIC
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 7 player tags including Exploration, Metroidvania and Action-Adventure; released around the same time (2022).
Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.
TUNIC at a glance Released 2022 Studio TUNIC Team Player sentiment 91% positive of 18,472 Price $29.99 ExplorationMetroidvaniaAction-AdventureDifficultRPGControllerIndie
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Himno
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 7 player tags including Pixel Graphics, 2D and Platformer; released around the same time (2019).
Himno is a peaceful, 2D platformer game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. Take a breath, and relax.
Himno at a glance Released 2019 Studio David Moralejo Sánchez Player sentiment 91% positive of 5,820 Price Free Pixel Graphics2DPlatformerRPGAction-AdventureExplorationBullet Hell
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Blasphemous 2
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 7 player tags including Metroidvania, Pixel Graphics and Difficult; released around the same time (2023).
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Blasphemous 2 at a glance Released 2023 Studio The Game Kitchen Player sentiment 91% positive of 21,269 Price $9.49 MetroidvaniaPixel GraphicsDifficultSide Scroller2DPlatformerAction-Adventure
Common questions
What game is most like Touhou Luna Nights?
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, on the evidence we have. It both difficult. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Touhou Luna Nights" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Touhou Luna Nights. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.