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Games like Darkfall Unholy Wars

If Darkfall Unholy Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, EVE Online and Dead Event — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, competitive and dark. 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.

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About Darkfall Unholy Wars: Darkfall Unholy Wars is an innovative, Real-Time, fast-paced, PvP, Sandbox MMORPG.

2013ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerRPGWindowsby Aventurine SA
Darkfall Unholy Wars — Steam game cover
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Clan support is essential for survivalCombat rewards skill over gearFull loot pvp means every death is costlyBleakCompetitiveDark

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Steam players who put hours into Darkfall Unholy Wars 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.

  1. The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.

    2023ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗
  2. EVE Online

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Second-strongest match for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.

    2010ActionStrategyMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Dead Event

    WHY THIS

    Shares a bleak mood with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Third-strongest match for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Dead Event is a indie RPG survival game in which the player grows up as a creature. The creature will grow bigger overtime and with interactions in-game also lose some growth on death. Form a colony or hunt alone, become part of a player-created ecosystem. Survive, eat or be eaten...

    2023ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. ArcheAge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Play ArcheAge - A vast open-world sandbox MMORPG with everything you can possibly imagine.

    2015Massively MultiplayerRPGFree To PlaySteam ↗
  5. Wild Terra 2: New Lands

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.

    2022ActionIndieMassively Multiplayer39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Elder Scrolls® Online

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

    2017ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    SHROUD OF THE AVATAR: FORSAKEN VIRTUES is a multiplayer fantasy RPG that sets the player on a path filled with peril and tough choices as they explore a persistent realm that can be shared with other Avatars. It is the spiritual successor to Richard Garriott’s Ultima games.

    2018AdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeSteam ↗
  8. Tree of Life

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Ranked #8 for Darkfall Unholy Wars fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Begin a journey in the beautiful world! Build your own town anywhere and explore the myterious lands anytime. Nothing is impossible in the open world: Be a legendary warrior and 5-star chef at the same time!

    2017IndieMassively MultiplayerRPGSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Darkfall Unholy Wars

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Mortal Online

    WHY THIS

    Shares full loot pvp, siege warfare and an intense mood with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Reviewers of Darkfall Unholy Wars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Mortal Online is a first-person medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in a huge, open, unforgiving world. Choose your race, choose your playstyle, choose a profession, choose where to place your loyalties - if you have any...

    2015ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. DayZ

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Reviewers of Darkfall Unholy Wars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

    2018ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer49.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. World of Witchcraft

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Darkfall Unholy Wars cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Immerse yourself in a world where ambition, magic, and lust intertwine.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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  1. 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 Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    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.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NERTS! Online

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Darkfall Unholy Wars.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Darkfall Unholy Wars

Does Darkfall Unholy Wars have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Darkfall Unholy Wars supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
What games are most similar to Darkfall Unholy Wars?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkfall Unholy Wars are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, EVE Online, Dead Event.
Who developed Darkfall Unholy Wars?
Darkfall Unholy Wars was developed by Aventurine SA and published by Aventurine.

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