Games like The Dark Stares Back
If The Dark Stares Back is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bughouse, SeverSoul XOOKEEPER and The Heilwald Loophole — 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 Dark Stares Back: The Dark Stares Back pins you against multiple invaders with no purpose but to hunt you. Each of them behaves in their own unique way and you must learn from your experience to evade them long enough to win. You can run into the vents, hide in cabinets, duck behind furniture and more to survive.
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Bughouse
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Top pick for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
SeverSoul XOOKEEPER
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Second-strongest match for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Keep the entities fed, pacified and contained every night within a dark decaying facility. Can you survive each shift in this intense point & click horror?
The Heilwald Loophole
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
Boo! Are you scared? The Chests Game
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Ranked #4 for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Boo! Are you scared? Don't be afraid, I'm a friend. Play the «Chests» card game for souvenirs with your new friend.
The Outlast Trials
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Ranked #5 for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
CRYO
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Ranked #6 for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
CRYO is a multiplayer co-op survival horror for 1-4 players. You have been deployed by your company to various locations around the Antarctic due to communication issues. What awaits you in these dark, remote regions is far more sinister than a technical fault...
The Experiment
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Ranked #7 for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
The tests went wrong. He has been transformed. It is hostile toward others. You have been assigned the task of killing the horrifying creature. Listen closely as it could be around any corner. (Game includes Remastered + Classic versions)
Hello Neighbor 2
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Ranked #8 for The Dark Stares Back fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Welcome back to the eerie town of Raven Brooks! You play as Quentin, a journalist investigating the bizarre events of the original Hello Neighbor game, uncovering a larger mystery. Sneak into your creepy Neighbors’ houses to dig up the truth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Stares Back at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under The Dark Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under The Dark Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under The Dark Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under The Dark Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under The Dark Stares Back on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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 The Dark Stares Back.
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 Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Stares Back.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Dark Stares Back.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Dark Stares Back
- How much does The Dark Stares Back cost?
- The Dark Stares Back is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Stares Back?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Stares Back are Bughouse, SeverSoul XOOKEEPER, The Heilwald Loophole.
- Who developed The Dark Stares Back?
- The Dark Stares Back was developed by Jacob McCormick.
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