Games like The Darkest Island
If The Darkest Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beyond Silence, ASZG Project Director's Cut and The Hollow Lighthouse — 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 Darkest Island: You are the only survivor of a plane crash. You are on a mysterious island and must face surprises and fight to stay alive. Lose yourself on an incredible journey of survival. Can you find a solution and leave the island?
Players who liked The Darkest Island also play
Steam players who put hours into The Darkest Island 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.
Beyond Silence
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
Beyond Silence is a first-person psychological horror where you play as James, a former surgeon who returns to the house of his past. The dark rooms, creaking floors, and forgotten notes hide the horrors he himself had a hand in. But the past won't let him go and it speaks to him through the silence
ASZG Project Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
ASZG is a psychological horror experience, where you must survive against creatures generated by the harmful DK-19 virus. Explore and survive in a completely devastated apocalyptic environment. The Director's Cut is an atypical version of the original game, a peculiar and highly contested edit.
The Hollow Lighthouse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
The Hollow Lighthouse is a first-person survival horror experience set on a mysterious, fog-covered island in the Black Sea. Fix the broken lighthouse, uncover disturbing secrets, and survive what roams in the dark. You were sent to repair the light. But something is watching you.
JongRo 3_Street
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Ranked #4 for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Darkest Island.
"In the year 2024, South Korea has become a wasteland due to the Epsilon virus. South Korea is full of infected people. In this desolate landscape, a man hears a rumor about a path to salvation at Jongno 3-ga Station and decides to head there."
Unmourned
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Ranked #5 for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
Unmourned is a first-person psychological horror game where Jason moves into a new house only to be haunted by escalating paranormal events. Driven by fear, he must uncover the truth behind the previous owners' disappearance. Can he solve the mystery before it's too late?
CRUELTY
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Ranked #6 for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
"CRUELTY" is a Japanese-made splatter horror. You were in an accident and lost consciousness. The moment you wake up, you find yourself in a nightmare world, one that is not of this Earth. In an abattoir ruled by madness, horrific scenes unfold, and inescapable terror awaits you.
LOST ZION
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Ranked #7 for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Darkest Island.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
Christmas Nightmare
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Ranked #8 for The Darkest Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkest Island.
Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Darkest Island at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
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 The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkest Island.
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 The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkest Island.
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 The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Darkest Island.
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 The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with The Darkest Island.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Darkest Island.
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 The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Darkest Island.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Darkest Island on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Darkest Island.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkest Island.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Darkest Island.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkest Island.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Darkest Island.
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 The Darkest Island.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkest Island.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about The Darkest Island
- How much does The Darkest Island cost?
- The Darkest Island is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Darkest Island?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Darkest Island are Beyond Silence, ASZG Project Director's Cut, The Hollow Lighthouse.
- Who developed The Darkest Island?
- The Darkest Island was developed by Gamix Studios and published by Gamix Studios, Wise Box Studios.
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 Darkest Island.
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