Games like Dark Moon
If Dark Moon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eternity, Drownlight and Calyx — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and stressful. 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 Dark Moon: Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Players who liked Dark Moon also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Moon 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.
Eternity
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
Lead the last fleet of mankind across an abandoned star system. Ration life-support, weigh research against survival, and shape society through Fleet Council decisions you cannot undo. Every choice tightens the path to the next jump.
Drownlight
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Calyx
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Third-strongest match for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dark Moon.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Ranked #4 for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Here Comes The Swarm
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with Dark Moon.
Ranked #5 for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
IXION
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with Dark Moon.
Ranked #6 for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Surviving the Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares crew management and an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Ranked #7 for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Ranked #8 for Dark Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dark Moon
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dark Moon.
Reviewers of Dark Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Reviewers of Dark Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
IXION
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a stressful mood with Dark Moon.
Reviewers of Dark Moon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Moon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dark Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Moon.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dark Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Moon.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Dark Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Moon.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Dark Moon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dark Moon.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Moon.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Moon.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Simulation with Dark Moon.
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 with Dark Moon.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Moon.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Moon.
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.
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More from Jujubee S.A.
Other recommendable Steam games by Jujubee S.A., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Realpolitiks
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Dark Moon.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Strategy with Dark Moon.
Become the leader of any contemporary country in this streamlined real-time grand strategy game. Use diplomacy, espionage, military and economic power to deal with other nations, while tackling issues such as terrorism, financial crises and medical epidemics, all in an effort to achieve global domination!
Realpolitiks II
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dark Moon.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
Lead your people to glory and write a new chapter of history in Realpolitiks II, a real-time grand strategy game where you lead any contemporary nation in an attempt to secure world dominance.
KURSK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Moon.
KURSK is the first ever adventure and documentary video game inspired by real events. You assume the role of a spy who finds way on the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk. While trying to complete your mission, you become witness to the dramatic events which shook the world at that time.
FLASHOUT 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Moon.
FLASHOUT 2, the sequel to the highly-acclaimed anti-gravity racer FLASHOUT 3D is finally here! Get into one of many ultra-fast ships and use your arsenal of rockets, guns, bonuses and upgrades to fight your way to victory!
Take Off - The Flight Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Simulation with Dark Moon.
Fly more than 20 airplanes in an open world or try out more than 40 exciting and varied missions – from airfreighting to dramatic rescue operations!
Spellcrafter
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Moon.
Spellcrafter is an RPG game with deep tactical turn-based combat and a unique spell casting system. Explore the magical world, collect gold, interact with NPCs, take quests and make moral choices! Recruit heroes, assemble and summon powerful troops and send them into battle!
Deep Diving Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Moon.
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Submerge yourself in one of the most immersive diving simulators to date. Gather your gear, choose your diving spot and discover what lies beneath the surface as you venture deep into the unknown.
Deep Diving VR
WHY THIS
Another title from Jujubee S.A., the studio behind Dark Moon. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Moon.
Submerge yourself in one of the most immersive VR experiences to date! Explore uncharted waters, witness vivid marine life, collect ancient artifacts, upgrade your gear, and enjoy the underwater adventure in Virtual Reality!
Frequently asked about Dark Moon
- Does Dark Moon run on Steam Deck?
- Dark Moon is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Dark Moon cost?
- Dark Moon is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Moon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Moon are Eternity, Drownlight, Calyx.
- Who developed Dark Moon?
- Dark Moon was developed by Jujubee S.A. and published by 101XP.
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 Dark Moon.
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