Games like Darkest Dungeon® II
If Darkest Dungeon® II is your kind of game, the closest matches are Darkest Dungeon®, Dungeon Mercenaries and The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming — 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 →Darkest Dungeon II is a dark fantasy roguelike developed by Red Hook Studios that released in 2023. Players form a party of heroes and set out across a decaying landscape in a stagecoach on a quest to prevent the apocalypse. The game features turn-based tactical combat, deckbuilding mechanics, permadeath systems, and procedurally generated runs that create brutal difficulty and massive replayability. The 77% positive rating from over 11,000 Steam reviews reflects appreciation for its challenging difficulty and narrative tension. Darkest Dungeon II is verified to run on Steam Deck and costs $39.99.
About Darkest Dungeon® II: Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
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Darkest Dungeon®
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Top pick for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Dungeon Mercenaries
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Second-strongest match for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Dungeon Mercenaries is an endless replayability RPG. Every time you wake up, it's a new start, procedurally generated map, randomly generated characters,explore the dungeon with different mercenaries, get reasure chests, gold coins, mercenaries, potions, food, and glory!
The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming
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Third-strongest match for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones. You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men.
Heroes of Steel RPG
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Ranked #4 for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.
Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
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Ranked #5 for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Golden Krone Hotel
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Ranked #6 for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
Monsters' Den: Book of Dread
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Ranked #7 for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Enter the Monsters' Den, a place of endless adventure, battle and reward! Lead your party of four heroes through each level of the ever-changing dungeon, fighting in turn-based battles and hunting for that elusive rare loot. The web-game classic comes to Steam!
Wasteland 3
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Ranked #8 for Darkest Dungeon® II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Deep Sky Derelicts
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Salt and Sanctuary
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Grim Dawn
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.
WORLD OF HORROR
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
SUNLESS SEA
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Dishonored
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Dragon Age: Origins
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Reviewers of Darkest Dungeon® II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
When history tells the story of the Fifth Blight, what will be said about the hero who turned the tide against the darkspawn? Determine your legacy and fight for Thedas as a noble dwarf, an elf far from home, a mage apprentice, or a customized hero of your own design.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Darkest Dungeon® II at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~88% under Darkest Dungeon® II on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
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.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~63% under Darkest Dungeon® II on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~50% under Darkest Dungeon® II on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under Darkest Dungeon® II on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~65% under Darkest Dungeon® II on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Darkest Dungeon® II.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Darkest Dungeon® II on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~63% under Darkest Dungeon® II on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Darkest Dungeon® II.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Samsara Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Saihate Station
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
The Children of Clay
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
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Frequently asked about Darkest Dungeon® II
- Is Darkest Dungeon® II verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Darkest Dungeon® II is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Darkest Dungeon® II cost?
- Darkest Dungeon® II is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Darkest Dungeon® II?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkest Dungeon® II are Darkest Dungeon®, Dungeon Mercenaries, The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming.
- Who developed Darkest Dungeon® II?
- Darkest Dungeon® II was developed by Red Hook Studios.
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 Darkest Dungeon® II.
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