Games like When the Darkness comes
If When the Darkness comes is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Stanley Parable, The Revenge of Sophia Red and Disharmonia — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. 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 →When the Darkness comes is a 2019 first-person psychological walking sim developed and published by Sirhaian. Players navigate a non-linear story about anxiety and depression through narrative-driven choices that lead to multiple endings. Reviewers highlight how the fragmented narrative mirrors mental health struggles, with the narrator shifting from supportive to antagonistic depending on player decisions. The game employs ambient sound design, symbolic level design, and fragmented psychological probing to create an atmospheric and contemplative experience. Players describe it as melancholic and unsettling, and appreciate how minimalist visuals focus attention on the psychological themes rather than overwhelming players. It is free to play and playable on Steam Deck, with an overall rating of 92% positive from over 5,800 Steam reviews.
About When the Darkness comes: When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.
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Steam players who put hours into When the Darkness comes 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.
The Stanley Parable
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Shares an atmospheric mood with When the Darkness comes.
Top pick for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Darkness comes.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
The Revenge of Sophia Red
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Second-strongest match for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Darkness comes.
The Revenge Of Sophia Red is a first-person psychological horror adventure with puzzle elements. It's about the life of the book author Sophia Red. Love can turn into hate and make people blind. Revenge has become the only meaning in Sophia's life. This is her story.
Disharmonia
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Third-strongest match for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Darkness comes.
Disharmonia is a first person exploration game. Your decision will play a big role in the development of the whole game. You will play as Tony, you will explore and discover special places beyond your reality. You will try to find an end, but the game will never end.
Martha Is Dead
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Shares an atmospheric mood with When the Darkness comes.
Ranked #4 for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Darkness comes.
Set in 1944 Italy, Martha Is Dead is an award-winning dark psychological thriller where the lines between truth, superstition, and tragedy blur. Explore a haunting countryside, uncover disturbing memories, and peel back layers of mystery. Every choice shapes the nightmare…are you ready to face it?
Silent Road
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Ranked #5 for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Darkness comes.
Drive through Japan’s most haunted forests in your night-shift taxi. Pick up strange passengers, fulfill their unsettling requests and follow the silent road as their stories make each ride darker than the last.
Route8
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Ranked #6 for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with When the Darkness comes.
"You're lost on Route 8. You must find a way to escape. This eerie road is terrifying.""Night falls, the phone rings. Who are you? You find yourself driving along Route 8, repeating endlessly."
Uncanny Tales: Cold Road
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Shares an atmospheric mood with When the Darkness comes.
Ranked #7 for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Darkness comes.
Uncanny Tales is an episodic horror series where the real terror comes not from monsters or the supernatural, but from people. Each episode is a new unsettling story inspired by real fears and eerie situations from everyday life.
Call of Cthulhu®
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Shares an atmospheric mood with When the Darkness comes.
Ranked #8 for When the Darkness comes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with When the Darkness comes.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
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Frequently asked about When the Darkness comes
- Does When the Darkness comes run on Steam Deck?
- When the Darkness comes is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is When the Darkness comes free to play?
- Yes — When the Darkness comes is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to When the Darkness comes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside When the Darkness comes are The Stanley Parable, The Revenge of Sophia Red, Disharmonia.
- Who developed When the Darkness comes?
- When the Darkness comes was developed by Sirhaian.
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 When the Darkness comes.
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