Games like Outer Darkness
If Outer Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lovecraft's Untold Stories, Alchemists and Earl vs. the Mutants — 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 Outer Darkness: Lay waste to hordes of evil in the Outer Darkness. Learn and augment spells and upgrade your character's abilities. Unlock and harness 8 different elements with unique gameplay to escape the forsaken dominion.
Players who liked Outer Darkness also play
Steam players who put hours into Outer Darkness 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.
Lovecraft's Untold Stories
WHY THIS
Top pick for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.
Alchemists
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
Alchemists is a Co-Op horror game that can be played with at least a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 4 players. Your goal is to expel the evil spirit from cursed places by completing the 4 Element ritual. Destroy the monster alone or with your team using your tools.
Earl vs. the Mutants
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Outer Darkness.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Source of Madness
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Outer Darkness.
Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.
VOIN
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
Crafted by a solo developer, VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash. Cleave through hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. Explore dark fantasy realms filled with secrets and dangers. Discover powerful gear and weapons, and face menacing bosses in your quest to cleanse a broken world.
Sharded World
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
Sharded World is a reversed bullet hell, rogue-lite, ARPG game combining simple gameplay and great rpg progression. Each level has its own unique features and challenges. Upgradable characters, weapons and orbs. Challenges, daily quests, and leaderboards. Fight, get stronger and defeat the Lich!
Whisper Mountain Outbreak
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Ranked #7 for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
Escape room meets co-op survival horror. The year is 1998, and an ancient curse has been unleashed, trapping everyone on Mount Bisik. Alone or with up to 4 players, you must explore, find clues, figure out a way to escape...and survive the horror.
Eldritch
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Ranked #8 for Outer Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Outer Darkness at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Outer Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Outer Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Outer Darkness.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Outer Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Outer Darkness.
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
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Priced ~67% under Outer Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outer Darkness.
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
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Priced ~67% under Outer Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
"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 ~67% under Outer Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
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
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Priced ~67% under Outer Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Outer Darkness.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
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 Outer Darkness.
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 and Adventure with Outer Darkness.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Outer Darkness.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Lovecraft's Untold Stories
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Outer Darkness.
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.
Earl vs. the Mutants
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Outer Darkness.
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Source of Madness
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Outer Darkness.
Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.
Frequently asked about Outer Darkness
- How much does Outer Darkness cost?
- Outer Darkness is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Outer Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Outer Darkness are Lovecraft's Untold Stories, Alchemists, Earl vs. the Mutants.
- Who developed Outer Darkness?
- Outer Darkness was developed by Espy Lacopa.
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 Outer Darkness.
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