Games like Dark Hours
If Dark Hours is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Hours: Prologue, Ivory Cage and Pacify — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic multiplayer betrayal shines, dark humor balances tension and equipment unlocks add replayability. 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 →Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game developed by Piece of Cake studios and published by both Piece of Cake studios and Kepler Ghost. Players control a team of robbers whose heist takes a supernatural turn when they become trapped with an evil entity. The game supports 1-4 players online and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. Players navigate procedurally generated levels using equipment unlocks and monster AI to escape, with time-pressure events forcing quick decisions. Team betrayal mechanics add unpredictability to the experience. Reviewers and players describe the atmosphere as dark and tense, though dark humor balances the intensity, and they highlight the chaotic multiplayer betrayal dynamics and how monsters force creative problem-solving. The game has received 84% positive reviews from 1,232 Steam reviews. At $14.99, it offers a medium-length, challenging experience designed for seated play sessions.
About Dark Hours: Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out.
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Dark Hours: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Dark Hours.
Top pick for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
Ivory Cage
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Descent with your team into the depths of an abandoned theme park to repair its broken machinery, and survive what's still down there.
Pacify
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Dark Hours.
Third-strongest match for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
Paranormal Cleanup
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a funny mood with Dark Hours.
Ranked #4 for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Clock in for the worst cleaning shift of your life: Unclog nasty toilets and scrub ectoplasm in this 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. Get the job done and don't get caught by the entities hunting you!
Lunch Lady
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dark Hours.
Ranked #5 for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Lunch Lady is a 1-4 player online co-op survival horror game. The school final exams are coming up and the best idea you and your friends had was to steal the test answers. Find all 10 pages and don't get caught by the murderous Lunch Lady!
Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dark Hours.
Ranked #6 for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
White Noise 2
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dark Hours.
Ranked #7 for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Enjoy a 4vs1 asymmetric horror experience like no other. Be a part of the investigator team, or take control of the creature and devour them!
Midnight Heist
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dark Hours.
Ranked #8 for Dark Hours fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Go on heists through Midnight City alone or with up to four players to fulfill tasks as a hacker for various organizations. Improve your reputation, earn money, and uncover the secrets of shady companies all while being hunted by terrifying entities.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dark Hours
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PAYDAY 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
Robbery Bob: Man of Steal
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Dark Hours.
Reviewers of Dark Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
Sneak through over 100 levels in this fun-filled take on the stealth puzzle genre!
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Dark Hours.
Reviewers of Dark Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
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.
Pharaoh™: A New Era
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a funny mood with Dark Hours.
Reviewers of Dark Hours cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Hours at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a funny mood with Dark Hours.
Priced ~53% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Hours.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dark Hours on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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 with Dark Hours.
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 Adventure with Dark Hours.
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 Dark Hours.
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 Dark Hours.
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 Adventure with Dark Hours.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Hours.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Pacify
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Dark Hours.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
An online co-op horror game where you pacify, weaken and capture supernatural creatures for PAH Inc. Each level has a different story, unique monsters, and multiple endings. Play single player or together with up to 6 friends. Includes proximity voice chat with fun effects.
Dead by Daylight
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dark Hours.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dark Hours.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Midnight Heist
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Dark Hours.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Hours.
Go on heists through Midnight City alone or with up to four players to fulfill tasks as a hacker for various organizations. Improve your reputation, earn money, and uncover the secrets of shady companies all while being hunted by terrifying entities.
Frequently asked about Dark Hours
- Does Dark Hours run on Steam Deck?
- Dark Hours 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 Dark Hours cost?
- Dark Hours is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dark Hours have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dark Hours supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dark Hours?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Hours are Dark Hours: Prologue, Ivory Cage, Pacify.
- Who developed Dark Hours?
- Dark Hours was developed by Piece of Cake studios and published by Piece of Cake studios, Kepler Ghost.
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