Games like The Darkest Road
If The Darkest Road is your kind of game, the closest matches are Moonfall, The Oathkeeper and Child of Hope — 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 Darkest Road: In this old-school RPG, you play as Callum and Lucia, the Trial Ones, as they find their way to be together in an epic battle that will change their and everyone else's lives.
Players who liked The Darkest Road also play
Steam players who put hours into The Darkest Road 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.
Moonfall
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Top pick for The Darkest Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
In this old-school RPG, join three seemingly unrelated characters as their decisions unknowingly intertwines their fate with the fate of the world and all life as they know it.
The Oathkeeper
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Second-strongest match for The Darkest Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
Ira is a famed mercenary, called The Oathkeeper. When one of his contracts puts him in the middle of an ancient war of good v. evil and face to face with the woman he begins to fall in love with, he will have to start fighting for more than just money!
Child of Hope
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Third-strongest match for The Darkest Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
In this old-school RPG, you are the Child of Hope.
The Exodus
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Ranked #4 for The Darkest Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
Play an old-school 2D RPG in the vein of Skyfall, Last Heroes and Fantasy Heroes!
Against All Odds
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Ranked #5 for The Darkest Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Darkest Road.
Of Arawn is asked something much greater than what he is prepared to give... that's when his true journey begins.
Chains of Time
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Ranked #6 for The Darkest Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Darkest Road.
In this 2D RPG, Rollo will have to become much more than a street urchin and care for the survival of all people, instead of only his own.
War of the Old Gods
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Ranked #8 for The Darkest Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
The country is on the brink of a new war, and Oriana and her brother are caught between that and their own personal safety. Orion will have to learn from his older sister how to properly use his powers, because he knows that ultimately, he won't be able to avoid doing so.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Darkest Road at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under The Darkest Road on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
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?
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
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.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkest Road.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from A Thousand Myths
Other recommendable Steam games by A Thousand Myths, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Baptism of Fire
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Another title from A Thousand Myths, the studio behind The Darkest Road. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
What at first was just another ranger duty, becomes the duty of champions trusted to protect the whole country's safety. In a race against time and against the former Champion Jorgen, Zasker and his party must secure all three Volgaia Shards to save the country from total ruin.
Save the Queen
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Another title from A Thousand Myths, the studio behind The Darkest Road. Shares RPG with The Darkest Road.
The Skull King has risen once more. As the last bastion against evil, it is your duty to stop him and restore the country to it's peaceful form.
Mother
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Another title from A Thousand Myths, the studio behind The Darkest Road. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
A terrible disease knowns as the Spread roams freely through the world of Terra. Moira and her family are the only survivors of their village, in her attempt to flee the sickness by going to a safe haven, she loses her husband, becoming the sole responsible for her children's safety and life.
War of the Old Gods
WHY THIS
Another title from A Thousand Myths, the studio behind The Darkest Road. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
The country is on the brink of a new war, and Oriana and her brother are caught between that and their own personal safety. Orion will have to learn from his older sister how to properly use his powers, because he knows that ultimately, he won't be able to avoid doing so.
A Tale of Brothers
WHY THIS
Another title from A Thousand Myths, the studio behind The Darkest Road. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkest Road.
Caldwell and Caldwyn, two former soldiers in the army of the Ruskin Kingdom, fight together to survive in what used to be their hometown. One day, they find what could be the cure of their world, now full of disease, hunger and suffering. This cure comes in the form of a woman.
Frequently asked about The Darkest Road
- How much does The Darkest Road cost?
- The Darkest Road is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Darkest Road?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Darkest Road are Moonfall, The Oathkeeper, Child of Hope.
- Who developed The Darkest Road?
- The Darkest Road was developed by A Thousand Myths.
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