Games like Dark rune
If Dark rune is your kind of game, the closest matches are Moi Mei, Tanglewood and The Path of Motus — 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 Dark rune: Dark rune - A story about a bounty hunter who decided to serve the local sheriff. The area is full of dangers and you have to deal with them alone. Find the dark rune stolen by the dark magician!
Players who liked Dark rune also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark rune 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.
Tanglewood
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark rune fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
Experience puzzle-platforming the way it’s meant to be. Designed and built on 90’s hardware, Tanglewood is a 16-bit love letter to the golden age of gaming. Guide Nymn home through a forest filled with danger, in classic 2D pixel-art style.
The Path of Motus
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark rune fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
Will you let other people stop you from pursuing your dreams? The Path of Motus is a game where your words have the power to destroy.
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark rune fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
Embark on a magical journey in Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed! Shape your adventure with the stroke of a brush and transform Wasteland as Mickey Mouse in this beautifully recreated 3D platformer.
Semblance
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dark rune fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
My Memory of Us
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dark rune fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark rune fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark rune.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark rune at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark rune.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark rune.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
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 ~70% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark rune.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark rune.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark rune.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark rune.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dark rune on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark rune.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Dark rune.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark rune.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 rune.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark rune.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Joi Max
Other recommendable Steam games by Joi Max, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
ICE FLAME
WHY THIS
Another title from Joi Max, the studio behind Dark rune. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
ICE FLAME - an exciting game about the adventures of an incredible cat who travels in search of magical fire through an icy mountain. However, on the way to his goal, he will have to overcome many traps and overcome various obstacles on his difficult path!
Underground Prisoner
WHY THIS
Another title from Joi Max, the studio behind Dark rune. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
Underground Prisoner is a necromancer's journey through a world of dangerous adventures in search of a precious soul herb that can summon and control the souls of the dead. Explore dark forests, abandoned cemeteries and dungeons, fight terrible monsters.
NAUS
WHY THIS
Another title from Joi Max, the studio behind Dark rune. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
NAUS is a thrilling 2D action roguelike that takes you deep into a dark dungeon for deadly battles against hordes of monsters and exciting adventures. Explore dark corridors and caves, where every step can be a challenge.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
Embark on a magical journey in Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed! Shape your adventure with the stroke of a brush and transform Wasteland as Mickey Mouse in this beautifully recreated 3D platformer.
Semblance
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
My Memory of Us
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark rune.
My Memory of Us is a moving fairy tale about friendship and hope in the darkest moments of our times. Enter a hand-crafted, gorgeously animated 2D world full of adventure, exploration, stealth and puzzles. Meet the kids brought up in different worlds and help them survive during times of occupation.
Frequently asked about Dark rune
- How much does Dark rune cost?
- Dark rune is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark rune?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark rune are Moi Mei, Tanglewood, The Path of Motus.
- Who developed Dark rune?
- Dark rune was developed by Joi Max.
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