Games like Dark Year
If Dark Year is your kind of game, the closest matches are Necrodungeon, Halls of Torment and The Moon Hell — 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 Year: Dark Year medieval fantasy game with a dark air, embark on this adventure as Marius, a commander of the army of the northern kingdom, who must return to the castle his journey will be full of enemies and an evil that never sleeps awaits him... You will be able to face them.
Players who liked Dark Year also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Year 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.
Necrodungeon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Fight the undead scorge. Upgrade your powers. Retrieve holy relics. Free the world. NECRODUNGEON is a procedural retro first-person dungeon crawler where you can combine countless powers to raise against the forces of evil.
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
The Moon Hell
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dark Year.
Welcome to a world of darkness, where every step can be your last. Explore a stunning world filled with fear and horror, solve puzzles, and endure combat trials to become a hero and protect your world from darkness. Become a warrior ready to fight anything that stands in your way in this action RPG.
Tyrant's Realm
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Tyrant's Realm is a roguelite action-adventure inspired by classic PS1 visuals. Explore procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds, battling through dangers that evolve with each run. Death is not the end, as the night is still young.
Hack and Slime
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.
Grimlord
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Grimlord is a Dark Fantasy Action Souls-like RPG - on VR. Awakened in a monastery deep in the Lonely Mountains, you walk in an epic quest as the adventurer standing before the darkness and striving for the light against the tyrannical Grim Lord.
Grim Dawn
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Dread Delusion
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Year fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Year at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Year.
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 ~88% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
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 ~63% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Year.
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 ~75% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Year.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Year.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Year.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Dark Year on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Year.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Year.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Year.
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 Indie with Dark Year.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Year.
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.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Year.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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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.
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Tyrant's Realm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Tyrant's Realm is a roguelite action-adventure inspired by classic PS1 visuals. Explore procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds, battling through dangers that evolve with each run. Death is not the end, as the night is still young.
Dread Delusion
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.
Frequently asked about Dark Year
- How much does Dark Year cost?
- Dark Year is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Year?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Year are Necrodungeon, Halls of Torment, The Moon Hell.
- Who developed Dark Year?
- Dark Year was developed by Alexsandro Andrade.
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 Year.
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