Games like The Black Pool
If The Black Pool is your kind of game, the closest matches are Streets of Rogue, Dungeon Survivors and Broventure: The Wild Co-op — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and hypnotic. 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 Black Pool: In the forest outside of town, four friends discover a mysterious black pool that transports them to an unknown world. To fight their way home, they must unlock and master supernatural abilities. Play cooperative or solo in this high-paced action game of skill that varies each session.
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Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Dungeon Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Black Pool.
Second-strongest match for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Dungeon Survivors is a top-down fantasy roguelite where you can use your class abilities to fight off a horde of fantasy monsters. Choose from a variety of abilities and items to create unique builds and survive with 1-4 players.
Broventure: The Wild Co-op
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Broventure = Vampire Survivors + Base building + Co-op. Band together with friends and obliterate hordes of grueling enemies, gather crucial resources, and transform your camp into a sanctuary of liberation.
Knights of Braveland
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Knights of Braveland is a cooperative beat'em up action game with a generated story. You will hack, slash, and smash your way to victory. And with your friends it is much more fun. Play local or online.
Barony
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Ranked #5 for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!
ArcRunner
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Black Pool.
Ranked #6 for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Traverse 'The Arc' in this beautiful, Cyberpunk-styled action rogue-lite as you attempt to reset an evil rogue AI. Experiment with different weapons and augments as you fight hordes of machines programmed for your annihilation! Collect Nanites & power-up after every run either solo or with friends!
30XX
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Rampage Knights
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Black Pool fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
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Risk of Rain 2
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Shares an intense mood with The Black Pool.
Reviewers of The Black Pool cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Returnal™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Black Pool.
Reviewers of The Black Pool cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
Crab Champions
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Reviewers of The Black Pool cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Black Pool at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Black Pool on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Black Pool.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under The Black Pool on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Black Pool on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under The Black Pool on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Black Pool on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with The Black Pool.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Black Pool.
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.
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 The Black Pool.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Black Pool.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Black Pool.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Black Pool.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Black Pool
- Does The Black Pool run on Steam Deck?
- The Black Pool is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Black Pool cost?
- The Black Pool is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Black Pool have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Black Pool supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, LAN Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Black Pool?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Black Pool are Streets of Rogue, Dungeon Survivors, Broventure: The Wild Co-op.
- Who developed The Black Pool?
- The Black Pool was developed by Smug Marmot 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 The Black Pool.
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