Games like Dreadful Shadows
If Dreadful Shadows is your kind of game, the closest matches are Terrordrome - Reign of the Legends, Cursed Deal and Unknown Darkness — 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 Dreadful Shadows: A Survival Horror, team based brawler. Hunt and Be Hunted, Defend or Destroy . Its up to you to collect weapons, spells and traps and tear through enemies all on your pursuit to become a Legendary Hunter. A Hunter who can be the most Dreadful in Shadows.
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Steam players who put hours into Dreadful Shadows 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.
Terrordrome - Reign of the Legends
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Top pick for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
Terrordrome Reign Of The Legends is an indie fighting game set in a world where characters from horror literature, urban legends, cryptids, mythology exist within our modern world. This spiritual successor to Terrordrome Rise of the Boogeymen will be the perfect fighting game for all fans of horror.
Cursed Deal
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Second-strongest match for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
Forget all those other cooperative horror games. You never know who's going to win in this 4v1 game where teams and roles can change. The hunter can be the prey, and the prey can be the hunter. Complete the ritual and become a vampire or die as prey to cursed creatures.
Unknown Darkness
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dreadful Shadows.
Unknown Darkness is a Lovecraftian story-driven tactical RPG with roguelite deck-building, set in a twisted version of 1920s America. Command America's shadow agency, born from the horrors of WWI, as a forgotten cult tries to wake a sleeping god. Can you keep the chaos from swallowing the world?
The Shadows Lengthen
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Ranked #4 for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
A first-person, open-world, horror indie game made entirely in the Blender Game Engine!
NightSpawn
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Ranked #5 for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
NightSpawn is a FREE to PLAY multiplayer horror game where investigators explore cursed locations, complete objectives, and escape supernatural monsters. Play co-op with friends or control the monster in asymmetric multiplayer modes including intense 4v1 hunts and competitive team-based matches.
Horror Legends
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Ranked #6 for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
Hack, slash, sneak, stalk, and scavenge through this asymmetrical player versus player nightmare as a deadly supernatural Legend or scrappy member of the cast.
Marauders
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Ranked #7 for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Dreadful Shadows.
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Loot River
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dreadful Shadows fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Dreadful Shadows.
Explore procedurally generated labyrinths in this challenging, narrative-rich roguelike. Master deep combat. Slide blocks of ancient ruins. Defeat bestial abominations. Loot, level up, strategize, fight, die and wake up anew. Unlock the secrets of the Loot River. Immortality is a bittersweet gift.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dreadful Shadows at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dreadful Shadows.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Dreadful Shadows.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dreadful Shadows.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Dreadful Shadows on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 Dreadful Shadows.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Dreadful Shadows.
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.
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dreadful Shadows.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dreadful Shadows.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
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Frequently asked about Dreadful Shadows
- How much does Dreadful Shadows cost?
- Dreadful Shadows is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dreadful Shadows have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dreadful Shadows supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Dreadful Shadows?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dreadful Shadows are Terrordrome - Reign of the Legends, Cursed Deal, Unknown Darkness.
- Who developed Dreadful Shadows?
- Dreadful Shadows was developed by Brainroot Studio and published by BrainRoot Studio.
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 Dreadful Shadows.
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