Games like Dark Lessons
If Dark Lessons is your kind of game, the closest matches are SOMA, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and Transient: Extended Edition — 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 Lessons: Trapped in your teacher's home, your only defense against the dark is a flickering candle. Unearth a family’s twisted history and solve puzzles in this Lovecraftian nightmare to find a way out. But be warned: Something else is lurking in the shadows ... and a voice is pleading for your help.
Players who liked Dark Lessons also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Lessons 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.
SOMA
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Top pick for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
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Second-strongest match for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
Transient: Extended Edition
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Third-strongest match for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
10:59
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Ranked #4 for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
You wake up with a bad hangover and don’t recognize your home. You see a boy and you understand... that something is wrong with him. Someone's presence causes anxiety, fear and is about to plunge you into the realm of horror. But you don’t lose hope and try to get out of this nightmare.
The Land of Pain
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Ranked #5 for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
Something strange appears in the woods. Lost in a dark and unknown place, survive an unrelenting enemy, solve puzzles, and uncover the ancient mystery that’s befallen this land in this Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror adventure.
Still Wakes the Deep
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Ranked #6 for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Conarium
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Ranked #7 for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
Conarium is a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness", but largely set after the original story.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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Ranked #8 for Dark Lessons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Lessons.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Lessons.
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 Indie with Dark Lessons.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Lessons.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Lessons.
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.
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Frequently asked about Dark Lessons
- What games are most similar to Dark Lessons?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Lessons are SOMA, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Transient: Extended Edition.
- Who developed Dark Lessons?
- Dark Lessons was developed by Tall Tide Games.
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