Games like The Dark Side
If The Dark Side is your kind of game, the closest matches are OZMAFIA!!, 7'scarlet and Cinderella Phenomenon: Evermore — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Dark Side: What if the world is completely different from what you are used to seeing it? What if there are a lot of secrets in it which are protected by Guardians at all times?
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Steam players who put hours into The Dark Side also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
OZMAFIA!!
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Side.
Once upon a time, a girl, her pet dog, and three companions made a journey to meet a great wizard who could grant their wishes. But what if the girl hadn’t believed that “there’s no place like home”? Explore a fairytale world through a dozen routes and 20+ endings!
7'scarlet
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Side.
The remote town of Okunezato is shaped like a crescent moon and shrouded in dark myths and legends. Take on the role of a brave young woman journeying into the unknown to uncover dangerous truths and locate her missing brother with her childhood friend.
Cinderella Phenomenon: Evermore
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Side.
What happens after Happily Ever After…?
Magical Diary: Horse Hall
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Side.
You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.
Cinders
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Side.
A mature take on Cinderella that's all about player choices and breaking the classic fairy tale in any way you like.
Demonheart: The Ice Demon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Dark Side.
Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?
Let`s not stay friends
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Side.
Friendship is a wonderful thing… unless you are friends with a girl who has no idea you have feelings for her! Inske, a student of magical arts, is troubled by the upcoming outdoors exam, and can't even imagine that someone might want to use the test as an opportunity to get close to her.
SoulSet
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dark Side fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Side.
SoulSet is a mystery/romance visual novel, in which you can try to avoid death and pursue a relationship with both male and female characters. You play as Mariko, who finds herself trapped in an eerie mansion with five other people who claim to have no recollection of their past. Who will you trust?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Side at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Dark Side.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Side.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Side.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Side.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Side on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Side.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Side.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Dark Side.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Side.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Side.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Side.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Side.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Side.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
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Frequently asked about The Dark Side
- How much does The Dark Side cost?
- The Dark Side is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Side?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Side are OZMAFIA!!, 7'scarlet, Cinderella Phenomenon: Evermore.
- Who developed The Dark Side?
- The Dark Side was developed by EyeContact Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Dark Side.
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