Games like Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals
If Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is your kind of game, the closest matches are CASE 2: Animatronics Survival, Guillotine and Dying Light — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its characters have unique abilities, maps offer strategic challenges and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is an asymmetric multiplayer horror game released in 2020 by Glowstick Entertainment. Players compete as either monsters or mortals in nightmarish maze environments, collecting soul shards through character-abilities and tactical-positioning. The game features procedurally generated map-variations that create different strategic challenges across matches. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and stressful, with reviewers highlighting how characters have unique abilities and maps offer strategic challenges that reward thoughtful play. The game supports online co-op and is verified to run on Steam Deck. Priced at $4.99, it has received 80% positive feedback from 1343 Steam reviews, presenting a challenging difficulty level suited for medium-length sit-down gaming sessions.
About Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals: Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is a multiplayer horror party game with multiple modes where players take on the role of monsters or mortals from Dark Deception's universe (and other universes) and fight for soul shards in nightmarish mazes!
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CASE 2: Animatronics Survival
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Shares tactical positioning and a stressful mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Top pick for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival is a horror game that is available in two modes. Online mode lets one or more players take on the role of animatronics, ready to crush everyone and everything. The other three are survivors. How did this happen? You’ll have to find out!
Guillotine
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Second-strongest match for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Guillotine is a multiplayer game of social deduction, with a pinch of survival. You're in a tavern in the woods, but someone is a necromorph hungry for human meat. Guillotine the necromorph, or get eaten alive.
Dying Light
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Soul Walker
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Ranked #4 for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
A 3v1 asymmetrical multiplayer horror game where sound is deadly. Survive together or betray others for your own safety, uncover hidden roles, and outsmart the Soul Walker that hunts by noise.
CashGrab
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Ranked #5 for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
CashGrab is a game which redefines the asymmetric horror genre. Grab some friends and get ready for a trip to #ScaryTown! This is literally the best game you'll ever play.
Propnight
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Shares a stressful mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Ranked #6 for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Join a thrilling party in Propnight, a multiplayer hide-and-seek game.
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
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Shares tactical positioning with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Ranked #7 for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Hello Neighbor Multiplayer. Secret Neighbor is a Multiplayer Social Horror Game where a group of intruders try to rescue their friend from the Neighbor's creepy basement. Only problem is one of the intruders is the Neighbor in disguise.
Last Year
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Shares tactical positioning and an atmospheric mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Ranked #8 for Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Enter the nightmarish world of Last Year, where you and four other classmates try to survive, fight back and ultimately escape a horrifying Fiend in this unique horror asymmetric game.
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Monstrum
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Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.
SILENT HILL 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
The Coma: Recut
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
You are Youngho, a Korean high school student trapped and relentlessly pursued by a psychotic killer in the hellish corridors of Sehwa High. Run, hide, explore, and survive while piecing together the mystery The Coma in this remastered version of the Korean cult classic.
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters is a Korean survival horror-adventure. Venture from your deserted school to survive the horrors of the night. Explore the surrounding Sehwa district and uncover the shadow realm's dark secrets. Use everything at your disposal to avoid a demoness hellbent on killing you!
PIGGY: Hunt
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Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
PIGGY: Hunt is a fast-paced survival horror multiplayer game. Survivors must work together to survive and escape from the Infected.
Poppy Playtime
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Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC
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Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
PAC-MAN arrives home on his birthday to find the Ghosts have kidnapped PAC-MAN’s family and ruined his party! Off to the rescue, PAC-MAN sets out to Ghost Island!
Dead by Daylight
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Reviewers of Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Dark Deception
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Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Another title from Glowstick Entertainment, the studio behind Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.
Super Dark Deception
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Another title from Glowstick Entertainment, the studio behind Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Death awaits you once again in Super Dark Deception, a fun 2D reimagining of the hit horror maze game, Dark Deception!
Farmocalypse
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Another title from Glowstick Entertainment, the studio behind Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals.
Farmocalypse is a spoopy survival farming game where you must grow crops and defend your farm against hordes of zombies, evil humans, monsters, ghosts, and demons.
Frequently asked about Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals
- Is Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals cost?
- Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals are CASE 2: Animatronics Survival, Guillotine, Dying Light.
- Who developed Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals?
- Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals was developed by Glowstick Entertainment.
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