Games like Path of Darkness
If Path of Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fantasy Miner: Idle Depths, Kill The Hero and OUTWORKS — 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 Path of Darkness: Path of Darkness is a dark incremental adventure where every battle brings you one step closer to absolute power. Crush endless waves of enemies, discover the rarest artifacts, experiment with devastating builds, and unlock new layers of gameplay.
Players who liked Path of Darkness also play
Steam players who put hours into Path of 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.
Fantasy Miner: Idle Depths
WHY THIS
Top pick for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Path of Darkness.
Dig for ore, discover new resources, smelt ingots, and unlock hundreds of upgrades in this fantasy mining idle game. Mine faster, dig deeper, and watch your progress grow.
Kill The Hero
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Path of Darkness.
A Dungeon Builder, Autobattler and Deckbuilder in one. They call themselves “heroes”. You call them gold suppliers. Dig your domain, build deadly traps, place guards and play powerful cards as ever-stronger “heroes” invade your dungeon. Take their gold and build the World Domination Machine.
StrategySteam ↗OUTWORKS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Path of Darkness.
Build a towering 3D fortress and hold the line. Stack floors, raise walls, and place turrets by altitude to survive escalating swarms of ground and flying machines closing on your core — then watch one collapsing tower take everything with it. A lean, neon, code-built base-defense roguelite.
A Dungeon Is You
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Ranked #4 for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Path of Darkness.
You died and got reincarnated as a dungeon core! Grow your dungeon, summon minions to defend you and conquer the world. A Dungeon Is You is a modern incremental dungeon management tower defense. No resets, no prestige! Long!
Idle Crown
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Ranked #5 for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Path of Darkness.
Rise from serf to sovereign in this medieval idle RPG. Level fifteen skills, raise a Holding stone by stone, slay drakes and leviathans, command workers, and grind your way to the throne. 100 achievements, 39 leaderboards, no energy bars, no waiting.
Silicon Architect
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Ranked #6 for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Path of Darkness.
An incremental hardware engineering game with a Windows XP themed UI. Configure and optimize processor components, build your own CPU, and run automated benchmarks. Harvest telemetry and gather research funding to unlock new hardware, and scale your processing power.
Between Adventures IDLE
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Ranked #7 for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Path of Darkness.
Idle RPG Strategy game where you gather resources, battle creatures, and upgrade your gear. Master 10+ skills to create items you can equip or sell. Your journey never stops, even offline. No Microtransactions, No P2W, just pure idle fun.
Idle Golf
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Path of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Path of Darkness.
Idle Golf is a laid-back idle game where you upgrade your golfer, unlock powerful balls, and watch the money roll in as shots fly automatically down the range. Retire your runs to earn medals, unlock new gear, and push your earnings further with each swing.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Path of Darkness.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Path of Darkness.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Path of Darkness.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Path of 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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Path of Darkness.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Path of Darkness.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Free To Play with Path of Darkness.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Path of Darkness.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
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Frequently asked about Path of Darkness
- What games are most similar to Path of Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Path of Darkness are Fantasy Miner: Idle Depths, Kill The Hero, OUTWORKS.
- Who developed Path of Darkness?
- Path of Darkness was developed by A816, Katruna and published by A816.
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 Path of Darkness.
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