Games like Dark Matter
If Dark Matter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, Ninja Pizza Girl and VonGarland Castle : Beyond Blood — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and mysterious. 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 Matter: Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...
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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Top pick for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Shantae embarks on her first full HD adventure! When a mysterious crime wave sweeps Sequin Land, it’s up to Half-Genie Hero Shantae to save the day! Use Shantae’s devastating Hair-Whip Attack to send monsters flying, or Belly Dance to transform her into more powerful forms!
Ninja Pizza Girl
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Second-strongest match for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.
VonGarland Castle : Beyond Blood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Third-strongest match for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
prepare yourself for side scrolling survival horror action. Ransom VonGarland must journey to Mayhem Island and the ruins of VonGarland Castle to find her brother and uncover the truth of what Plasmadine corporation is doing on the island
The Fall Part 2: Unbound
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Ranked #4 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
You are an AI that has broken free of your shackles. Now, a human “User” from across the global network has attacked and infected you with an [ERROR: REDACTED]. Make a new rule: Save Yourself. Hunt them. End them. Do anything. Use anyone. Become Unbound. The Fall Part 2 will break your protocols.
Dex
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Ranked #5 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.
A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Ranked #6 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
A 2.5D action-packed side-scrolling game, takes players on a thrilling sci-fi adventure! Take control of combat specialist Ares, or the new playable character, Tarus, to battle deadly machines with a variety of powerful weapons and armor. Your goal: Save Minos Space Station’s survivors and uncover the nefarious Zytron’s extinction agenda!
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Ranked #7 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
This is an anime-style Metroidvania game with an RPG progression system, numerous weapons for switching, and an emphasis on equipment building. It offers three switchable characters, smooth gameplay, impactful combat feedback, and anime-style story scenes.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dark Matter
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Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
UnEpic
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
Mass Effect (2007)
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a 3rd person action-adventure title from Respawn. An abandoned Padawan must complete his training, develop new powerful Force abilities, and master the art of the lightsaber - all while staying one step ahead of the Empire.
Dead Space
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Obliterator-X
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
A chaotic tower defense roguelike where scavenging is survival and death is just the beginning. Build, blast, and upgrade your way through mutant hordes, unlock new weapons, and assign combat drones to adapt your strategy every run.
System Shock® 2 (1999)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Reviewers of Dark Matter cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Matter at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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 Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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 Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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 Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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.
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 with Dark Matter.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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 Indie with Dark Matter.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Shantae embarks on her first full HD adventure! When a mysterious crime wave sweeps Sequin Land, it’s up to Half-Genie Hero Shantae to save the day! Use Shantae’s devastating Hair-Whip Attack to send monsters flying, or Belly Dance to transform her into more powerful forms!
Ninja Pizza Girl
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about bullying, emotional resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas! It’s a fast, flow-based game about Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl trying to keep her dreams alive in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.
Timespinner
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Matter.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Frequently asked about Dark Matter
- Does Dark Matter run on Steam Deck?
- Dark Matter 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 Matter cost?
- Dark Matter is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Matter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Matter are Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, Ninja Pizza Girl, VonGarland Castle : Beyond Blood.
- Who developed Dark Matter?
- Dark Matter was developed by InterWave Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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 Dark Matter.
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