Games like Backpack Boy

If Backpack Boy left you wanting something cute and colorful, you have options. These games line up well for what comes next.

Cheaper than Backpack Boy

Night Lights

Night Lights

Night Lights is a relaxing puzzle platformer where you manipulate light and shadow to guide a small robot through a calm, atmospheric world.

79% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$1.49
Neon Light

Neon Light

You have to play as a little boy who found himself on an unknown and forgotten planet, now you need to do everything to leave it.

0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
There The Light

There The Light

Explore an unknown and abandoned world. Each step, each puzzle, brings you closer to discovering the history and secrets of a lost civilization.

79% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Light your Way

Light your Way

Light your Way is a first-person puzzle platformer where invisible platforms reveal themselves only when touched.

100% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Beggar's Ride

The Beggar's Ride

The Beggar’s Ride is a unique and innovative Platform Puzzle Adventure Game where the player can manipulate the environment to solve puzzles in a…

81% of 164 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Light Fantastik

Light Fantastik

Light is fantastic isn't it? but what if you can jump higher in the dark with inverted controls.

90% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
1000 Amps

1000 Amps

Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.

77% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Candleman: The Complete Journey

Candleman: The Complete Journey

Guide a small candle through the darkness, burning yourself briefly to light the way and solve puzzles of light and shadow.

91% of 1,087 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
“LIGHT” IS

“LIGHT” IS

LIGHT IS is a 2D platform jumping game about exploration and puzzle solving. Explore the hand drawn style underground city.

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Walk The Light

Walk The Light

A unique puzzle game where you control a mysterious light source to help Charlie escape the caverns he's been trapped in.

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Light

Light

The protagonist is to commemorate the Syrian boy on the beach, control the character to escape and solve mysteries in my fictional inner world…

88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
LightWalk

LightWalk

A 2D Puzzle Platformer about navigating mazes of lasers. The objective of each level is to get to the goal block, and a variety of laser types and…

100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Hidden gems like Backpack Boy

KnightLight

KnightLight

A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness.

95% of 119 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Beyond The Darkness

Beyond The Darkness

💀🧩🕹️ Beyond The Darkness is a horror adventure game with puzzles where you help little girl Milly battle nightmares in the darkness to find her…

85% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Lightmatter

Lightmatter

A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

94% of 698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Monolight

Monolight

MONOLIGHT is 2D plat-former puzzle adventure game. Using tiny lantern, go through the maze.

87% of 364 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Candleman: The Complete Journey

Candleman: The Complete Journey

Guide a small candle through the darkness, burning yourself briefly to light the way and solve puzzles of light and shadow.

91% of 1,087 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Archaica: The Path of Light

Archaica: The Path of Light

Archaica is an atmospheric puzzler with lasers and mirrors, that introduces a mystical and ancient world, full of challenging puzzles.

92% of 218 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Sojourn

The Sojourn

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness.

69% of 192 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Bulb Boy

Bulb Boy

A wordless point & click horror tale where a glowing boy fights the monsters that swallowed his home.

89% of 598 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$8.99
The Beggar's Ride

The Beggar's Ride

The Beggar’s Ride is a unique and innovative Platform Puzzle Adventure Game where the player can manipulate the environment to solve puzzles in a…

81% of 164 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
TurnOn

TurnOn

"TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and…

76% of 213 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Contrast

Contrast

Guide an imaginary friend through a dreamlike noir city, shifting into shadows to solve puzzles and help a girl hold her family together.

90% of 4,584 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
Closure

Closure

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists.

85% of 450 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Newest games like Backpack Boy

THANKS, LIGHT.

THANKS, LIGHT.

A first-person puzzle game where light turns flat shapes into solid objects. Absorb it to make them flat again.

94% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Lost Light

Lost Light

"In the sun's lament, the umbra takes advance and the cycle begins anew..." The sun darkens again, the world needs a brave young soul.

93% of 28 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Light your Way

Light your Way

Light your Way is a first-person puzzle platformer where invisible platforms reveal themselves only when touched.

100% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Glowkeeper

Glowkeeper

A luminescent puzzle game about manipulating elements. By the light of fireflies, link and dissolve elemental forces to construct bridges, break…

98% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Oscuro Blossom's Glow

Oscuro Blossom's Glow

Join Selene in a charming platforming and puzzle adventure, where her ability to absorb and emit light from various flowers is key to activating…

91% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
MoonLight

MoonLight

Remember the feeling of being frozen of fear under your blanket, in your childhood bed, being absolutely sure there’s monster under the bed?

75% of 24 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Babushka's Glitch Dungeon

Babushka's Glitch Dungeon

Oh hello dearie.. Babushka needs to clean up her big magical cellar. Use hag magic, or just hit stuff with your broom.

98% of 265 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
“LIGHT” IS

“LIGHT” IS

LIGHT IS is a 2D platform jumping game about exploration and puzzle solving. Explore the hand drawn style underground city.

100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Beyond The Darkness

Beyond The Darkness

💀🧩🕹️ Beyond The Darkness is a horror adventure game with puzzles where you help little girl Milly battle nightmares in the darkness to find her…

85% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
KnightLight

KnightLight

A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness.

95% of 119 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Luminus

Luminus

A 2D puzzle platformer where you use light and shadow to manipulate the world.

100% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Pilfer: Story of Light

Pilfer: Story of Light

A 3D platforming journey, featuring a cute raccoon that must save the forest from darkness!

90% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$9.99