Games like The Dark Story
If The Dark Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Banshee Hunt, Ravenhille: Awakened and Final Night — 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 The Dark Story: Welcome to THE DARK STORY get ready for a chilling adventure in a jungle mansion. Your task: survive, explore, and escape before the horrors within engulf you. Beware of jumpscares around every corner. Can you brave the darkness and uncover the secrets within?
Players who liked The Dark Story also play
Steam players who put hours into The Dark Story 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.
Banshee Hunt
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Top pick for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
Banshee Hunt is a Banshee hunting horror game, a supernatural spirit from Irish folklore, on an island isolated from the world. Track the creature by listening to its distant cries and loud screams, prepare your weapon and kill it, before it reaches you.
Ravenhille: Awakened
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Second-strongest match for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
Hunt down the mythical beast, created in desperation during the final days of World War II. A failed Nazi project known as “Wolfsklinge” unleashed an ancient creature from the depths of hell. Now, it’s your task to lift the curse that haunts the village and the forest. It won’t be easy.
Final Night
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Third-strongest match for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
A nightmarish descent into your worst memories awaits. In "Final Night," you're forced to relive your darkest traumas - now twisted into monstrous, living horrors that hunt you relentlessly. Every shadow hides a piece of your broken past, eager to drag you into the abyss.
Escape Island
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Ranked #4 for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
"Escape Island: An exciting survival adventure! Your mission: Escape from a deserted island full of dangers. Explore, hunt and collect resources to survive. But beware of lurking threats! Use your intelligence and skills to overcome obstacles and escape!"
Lost In Failures
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Ranked #5 for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
It is a survival, adventure, and action game set in a living and challenging open world. Experience the legendary journey of David, who suddenly woke up on an unfamiliar beach surrounded by a forest filled with mysteries and threats. He will need to explore and fight to regain his normal life.
The Hermit Chronicles
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Ranked #6 for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Story.
The Hermit Chronicles is a 1st-person survival horror game set in a deep forest. Assuming the role of a hermit, you will have to get food, scout your neighborhood, and search for resources to make gear. But after the sun goes down, you'll have to survive for real...
Chupacabra Hunt
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Ranked #7 for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
Chupacabra Hunt is a Chupacabra hunting horror game, a vampiric creature that is feeding on the blood of animals in the region. Track the creature by following its footprints and listening to its screams, prepare your weapon and kill it.
Green Hell VR
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Ranked #8 for The Dark Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
Green Hell VR is an Open World Survival game set in the Amazon rainforest, based on the successful PC title Green Hell. You are left alone in the jungle with no food or equipment. To survive, you must learn real-life survival techniques, and crafting weapons can be a matter of life and death
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Story at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~84% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Story.
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 ~75% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Story.
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
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Priced ~84% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Dark Story.
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
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Priced ~50% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
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!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under The Dark Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
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 The Dark Story.
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 The Dark Story.
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 The Dark Story.
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 The Dark Story.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Dark Story.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Story.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Story.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about The Dark Story
- How much does The Dark Story cost?
- The Dark Story is listed on Steam at 6.02 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Story are Banshee Hunt, Ravenhille: Awakened, Final Night.
- Who developed The Dark Story?
- The Dark Story was developed by MY DREAM GAME STUDIO.
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 The Dark Story.
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