Games like Heartless Dark
If Heartless Dark is your kind of game, the closest matches are Teleglitch: Die More Edition, Battlecaster and Wicked West — 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 Heartless Dark: Inch your way through oppressive darkness using only a flashlight and 6th sense in this tense top-down roguelike. Shoot, stun, electrocute, poison and blow-up monsters in abandoned corporate offices where resources are scarce and even the furniture could be trying to kill you.
Players who liked Heartless Dark also play
Steam players who put hours into Heartless 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.
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
Battlecaster
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Battlecaster is a challenging fast paced arena roguelike. Defend yourself against unrelenting enemies and overcome difficult encounters. Use abilities strategically to control the ring of combat.
Wicked West
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Survive the unforgiving frontier in Wicked West, a top-down shoot 'em up where every kill earns upgrades and new abilities. Face relentless enemies, epic bosses, and one-shot death in this brutal Wild West survival challenge. Can you outlast the chaos?
ATOMINE
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.
Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Your best friend wants to cheer you up, so he tries his best to make a dungeon for you to explore. Explore his wholesome, weird-as-heck, scrappy rogue-lite oozing with charm and humor for 1-2 Players.
Lost Potato
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bullets and help a young potato find its way out of a jungle filled with man-eating tribes!
Power of Ten
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Fly a star-fighter against a bloodthirsty armada. Gather weapons, resources, and upgrades to help you push back the relentless assault while protecting the galaxies' civilians!
Doomed to Hell
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Heartless Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Heartless Dark.
Doomed to Hell is a roguelike-like top-down shooter where you play as Rose, a human in hell who will need to fight all of its monsters in waves of enemies, defeat bosses, and get new weapons to earn back his life on earth.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heartless Dark at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartless Dark.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heartless Dark.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heartless Dark.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartless Dark.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartless Dark.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heartless Dark.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Heartless Dark on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless 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?
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 Heartless 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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
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 Heartless 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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Heartless Dark.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heartless Dark.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about Heartless Dark
- How much does Heartless Dark cost?
- Heartless Dark is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heartless Dark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heartless Dark are Teleglitch: Die More Edition, Battlecaster, Wicked West.
- Who developed Heartless Dark?
- Heartless Dark was developed by iamRoarke.
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 Heartless Dark.
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