Games like Darkwood
If Darkwood is your kind of game, the closest matches are SOMA, Darkwood 2 and DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cosmic horror feels palpable, atmospheric and immersive. 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 →Darkwood is a survival horror game developed by Acid Wizard Studio, released in 2017 at $14.99. Players navigate a rich, open world that shifts between methodical daytime exploration and tense nighttime base defense. The day-night cycle drives gameplay, with limited resources and procedural events creating constant pressure to prepare before dark falls. Combat is deliberate and punishing, rewarding careful planning over reflexes. The game runs natively on Steam Deck, delivering a polished handheld experience. Players and reviewers describe the atmosphere as immersive and unsettling, noting the cosmic horror tone and sound design build genuine tension without relying on jump scares. Steam reviews report 94% positive from nearly ten thousand players.
About Darkwood: Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Players who liked Darkwood also play
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SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Top pick for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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.
Darkwood 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Darkwood.
Roam freely around the scorched deserts of a dying sea as you secure resources and explore the mysteries of Darkwood. But beware nightfall – seek shelter, shore up your defenses, and pray for the morning light as the horrors of the world hunt the ill-prepared.
DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.
SUNLESS SEA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Ranked #4 for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
The Last Cargo
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
The Last Cargo is a dark survival horror - where your road to independence leads through the hell of imprisonment.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Ranked #6 for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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.
DREDGE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Ranked #7 for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Fade to Silence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Ranked #8 for Darkwood fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Darkwood.
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Darkwood
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The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Darkwood.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Pathologic 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
SILENT HILL 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Outlast
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Darkwood.
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
The Evil Within
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Darkwood.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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.
Resident Evil
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Reviewers of Darkwood cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Darkwood at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Darkwood.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Action with Darkwood.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Action with Darkwood.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Darkwood.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Darkwood.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Darkwood.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Darkwood on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Darkwood.
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.
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.
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 Darkwood.
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 with Darkwood.
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 Adventure with Darkwood.
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 Adventure with Darkwood.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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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.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
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.
DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood.
Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.
DREDGE
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkwood.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood.
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Frequently asked about Darkwood
- Is Darkwood verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Darkwood is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Darkwood cost?
- Darkwood is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Darkwood?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkwood are SOMA, Darkwood 2, DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain.
- Who developed Darkwood?
- Darkwood was developed by Acid Wizard Studio and published by Hooded Horse, Acid Wizard Studio.
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