Games like The Dark
If The Dark is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trump and Virus, Dart Racer and Wingsuit: Romsdalen — 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: You come round as your escape pod plummets into the inky waters of a distant flooded planet. Comms are down and power failing. You have no choice but to head out into.. the dark.
Players who liked The Dark also play
Steam players who put hours into The 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.
Trump and Virus
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
At the beginning of a disaster, those seemingly unimportant warnings will always be felt that this is not serious, such as the invasion of viruses.
Dart Racer
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
Dart Racer is an arcade racing game set in the future where anti-gravity rules! Master extreme tracks, upgrade your vehicle, and defeat your rivals. Jump into the cockpit, unleash the full power of your machine, and dominate the galaxy!
Wingsuit: Romsdalen
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with The Dark.
Feel the rush of Norway’s Romsdalen Valley in this intense action sports game. Pilot a high-performance wingsuit through challenging exits, daring stunts and vast mountain landscapes. Are you ready to hit the slopes?
Expedition Astra
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
Old machines guard silent asteroid sites across the outer solar system. Pilot a 6DoF spacecraft, fight around the rock, dock with old vessels, and touch the asteroid to extract rare materials.
Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
We promise you will feel like a pilot flying airliners, helicopters, fighters, gliders, historical and aerobatic aircraft in a photorealistic world! Over 10,000 real world flights, highly detailed cockpits and scenery are awaiting you.
Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator lets you explore the world of flying in a quality never seen before. Fly a large selection of highly detailed aircraft or a helicopter with interactive 3D cockpits. Aerofly FS 2 currently features over 200 airports in the south western USA and global elevation and satellite imagery.
Race The Sun
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
You are a solar-powered craft. The sun is your death timer. Hurtle towards the sunset at breakneck speed in a futile race against time. Delay the inevitable by catching speed boosts which reverse the setting sun - if only for a moment. Don't crash, stay in the light, and don't slow down!
Polynomial 2 - Universe of the Music
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
Polynomial 2 is an amazing visual candy which tends to be a space shooter and a music visualizer. Immersive on screen, mind-blowing in VR.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The 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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The 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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The 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 ~50% under The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The 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!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
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 with The 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 The 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 The Dark.
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 Dark.
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 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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about The Dark
- How much does The Dark cost?
- The Dark is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark are Trump and Virus, Dart Racer, Wingsuit: Romsdalen.
- Who developed The Dark?
- The Dark was developed by Light Arc Studio Ltd.
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 Dark.
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