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Games like Dark Forest: The Horror

If Dark Forest: The Horror is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Shadows, ROUTINE and Uventa — 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.

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About Dark Forest: The Horror: Dark Forest is an adventure horror game in which you have to find a way out of your prolonged sleep. Otherwise, you risk staying in it forever.

2021IndieAdventure10.99 USDWindowsby Maks Volegov, Gamesforgames
Dark Forest: The Horror — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Dark Forest: The Horror 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.

  1. Dark Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Elena killed Jason to protect her friend but unleashed a terrifying curse. Now Dark Shadow is back for revenge. Survive, face your fears, and don’t scream—if you do, it all starts over!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. ROUTINE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Uventa

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    The tragic fate brings you, a simple night guard, to an abandoned school. Plunge into a horrifying story and get to the bottom of the secret that this spectre of the long-gone Soviet era has in store.

    2018IndieViolentGore0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Outlast

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. CASE: Animatronics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?

    2016ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Never Again

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.

    2019IndieAdventure13.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.

    2009ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Slender: The Arrival

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dark Forest: The Horror fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Forest: The Horror at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~43% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~91% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~73% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~45% under Dark Forest: The Horror on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest: The Horror.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dark Forest: The Horror

How much does Dark Forest: The Horror cost?
Dark Forest: The Horror is listed on Steam at 10.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dark Forest: The Horror?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Forest: The Horror are Dark Shadows, ROUTINE, Uventa.
Who developed Dark Forest: The Horror?
Dark Forest: The Horror was developed by Maks Volegov, Gamesforgames and published by Gamesforgames, Maks Volegov.

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 Dark Forest: The Horror.

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