Games like Before Dark
If Before Dark is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clone Your Way Out, Joon Shining and Mekabolt — 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 Before Dark: With a short battery life and no jumping, how can you survive this world of darkness and bring it back to life? In this platformer, precision and patience are crucial to survival.
Players who liked Before Dark also play
Steam players who put hours into Before Dark 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.
Clone Your Way Out
WHY THIS
Top pick for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
Embark on a retro sci-fi journey in "Clone Your Way Out," a puzzle side-scroller with nostalgic pixel art. You'll control clones escaping from a mysterious lab, using a Clone Gun to solve deadly puzzles and traps. Enjoy retro visuals and unique cloning mechanics as you guide your clones to freedom.
Joon Shining
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
Master the elements. Explore mystical worlds. Harness ancient powers. Joon Shining is an enchanted golf-like platformer with a fantasy twist. Use magic to bend physics, influence environments, and make impossible shots, as you puzzle your way through a strange & mythic multiverse
Mekabolt
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!
Glum Buster
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
Take a mind-bending trip through a mysterious, haunting alternate reality. Use your newly discovered magic, wits, and curiosity to cleanse the world of glum and find a way back to your family. Experience the wonder of this 2009 AIGF Showcase winner and indie cult classic.
Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Before Dark.
Experience the thrill of the high-flying antics of the Crazy Ball as it bounces around the dysfunctional office. With unique and challenging gameplay that is easy to grasp, outrageous physics and plenty of fun content, this is one wacky office that you’d never want to leave!
Gravity_Kid
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
A rabbit on a rocket that can change gravity!
Skin and Bones
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
Fast-paced retro style platform game where you take control of two unlikely friends who must work together. Travel through strange worlds with the super-energetic "Skin" and the grumpy but strong skeleton "Bones".
Angry Fugu
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Before Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Dark.
Angry Fugu is a relaxing and logical jumping game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Before Dark at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Before Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Before Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Before Dark.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Before Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Before Dark.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Before Dark on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Before Dark.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Before Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Before Dark.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Before Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Before Dark.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Before Dark on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Before Dark.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Before Dark.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Before Dark.
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 Action and Indie with Before Dark.
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 with Before Dark.
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 and Adventure with Before Dark.
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 Casual with Before Dark.
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 Action and Indie with Before Dark.
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.
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Frequently asked about Before Dark
- How much does Before Dark cost?
- Before Dark is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Before Dark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Before Dark are Clone Your Way Out, Joon Shining, Mekabolt.
- Who developed Before Dark?
- Before Dark was developed by AHAKuo Creations.
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 Before Dark.
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