Games like Darkout
If Darkout is your kind of game, the closest matches are Edge of Space, Signs of Life and StarDune — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep crafting rewards, satisfying sense of progression and atmospheric. 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 Darkout: Crashed and alone on a world mankind tried to leave behind, Darkout challenges players to survive on Illuna, in harsh, procedurally generated biomes, utilizing the game’s sandbox features to build shelters, craft weapons, and research new technologies.You are not alone.
Players who liked Darkout also play
Steam players who put hours into Darkout 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.
Edge of Space
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Darkout.
Top pick for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Signs of Life
WHY THIS
Shares crafting and an atmospheric mood with Darkout.
Second-strongest match for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.
StarDune
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkout.
Build, Fly, and Survive. StarDune combines tactile, modular construction with seamless space travel. Reshape vibrant voxel planets, automate your outposts, and explore a procedurally generated solar system alone or with friends in a world that’s yours to mold.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Darkout.
Ranked #4 for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkout.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
SquareWorld Unpixeled
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Explore a randomly generated universe full of unique planets! Build whatever comes into your mind with hundreds of blocks available! Mine for precious treasures and dungeons! Play alone or with friends, create or destroy, explore or build up a home. Choose your way of playing.
XYLITH - Hostile Planet
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
In the vast subterranean world of Eldriss recently discovered monoliths are fueling more than just the humans fears. Sent by Nimbus you must investigate the mysterious Xylith and use any means necessary to quell an alien uprising.
Remains
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Darkout.
Ranked #7 for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!
Space Trash Scavenger
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Darkout.
Ranked #8 for Darkout fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Darkout
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Darkout.
Reviewers of Darkout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Windforge
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkout.
Reviewers of Darkout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Darkout cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Darkout.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Darkout at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkout.
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 Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
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 Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Action with Darkout.
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 Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkout.
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 Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkout.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
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 Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
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 Darkout on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
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 and Adventure with Darkout.
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 Darkout.
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 Darkout.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkout.
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 Darkout.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Darkout.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Darkout
- How much does Darkout cost?
- Darkout is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Darkout?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkout are Edge of Space, Signs of Life, StarDune.
- Who developed Darkout?
- Darkout was developed by Allgraf and published by KISS ltd.
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 Darkout.
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