Games like The Dark Survivors
If The Dark Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Our Darker Purpose, Dungeon Souls and Death Must Die — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cat interaction animations, anxious and bleak. 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 The Dark Survivors: This game combines survival, Diablo-like elements and randomness in a rogue-lite experience where players take on the role of survivors with various talents who use different weapons and abilities to fight off hordes of monsters.
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Our Darker Purpose
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Dark Survivors.
Top pick for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Dark Survivors.
Second-strongest match for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Death Must Die
WHY THIS
Shares wave based survival, survival and a challenging mood with The Dark Survivors.
Third-strongest match for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Dark Survivors.
Ranked #4 for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
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!
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Dark Survivors.
Ranked #5 for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
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?
Overture
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with The Dark Survivors.
Ranked #6 for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Survivors.
Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Good Robot
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dark Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Good Robot is a fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up that pits you against thousands of robots out to violate your warranty. Explore a procedurally generated sci-fi metropolis and the depths of corporate depravity, but never stop shooting...unless, of course, you're a Bad Robot. You're not, are you?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Survivors at current Steam store prices.
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Survivors.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Survivors.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Survivors.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Survivors.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Shotgun Legend
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Dark Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Eugene must battle aliens and the undead in search of a truck rim, as it seems to be his ticket home.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
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Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Survivors.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dark Survivors.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Trick & Treat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Survivors.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
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Frequently asked about The Dark Survivors
- How much does The Dark Survivors cost?
- The Dark Survivors is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Survivors?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Survivors are Our Darker Purpose, Dungeon Souls, Death Must Die.
- Who developed The Dark Survivors?
- The Dark Survivors was developed by ByDesignk.
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