Games like The Darkness Below
If The Darkness Below is your kind of game, the closest matches are Underkeep, Dragon Wars and Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark 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 →About The Darkness Below: Embark on an epic journey into "The Darkness Below", a homage to the golden era of 90's cRPGs, with grid-based movement, turn-based combat and 2.5D perspective. Wander a vast and colorful fantasy world filled with puzzles, exotic creatures, forgotten dungeons and ancient guardians.
Players who liked The Darkness Below also play
Steam players who put hours into The Darkness Below 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.
Underkeep
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Explore a dangerous fantasy world in this role-playing dungeon crawler with tactical, turn-based combat. Assemble a party of adventurers, upgrade your gear and descend into the depths of the Underkeep to uncover what lies hidden below.
Dragon Wars
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Second-strongest match for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Darkness Below.
From the designer's of Bard's Tale comes a story-telling RPG with over 60 monsters, 65 spells and hours of exploration and turn-based combat where your decisions matter.
Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Third-strongest match for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Darkness Below.
Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.
Archaelund
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Ranked #4 for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Darkness Below.
Explore a vast open world and crawl through dungeons in first person, then fight tactical turn-based battles from a top-down perspective. Guide your adventuring party through Archaelund, mankind's last frontier, and uncover its many secrets.
Aeon of Sands - The Trail
WHY THIS
Shares grid based combat and an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Ranked #5 for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Aeon of Sands – The Trail is a roleplaying game set in a post-apocalyptic desert world. It combines real-time exploration gameplay with classic gamebooks where you create your very own non-linear story adventure.
Operencia: The Stolen Sun
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Ranked #6 for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Guide a team of memorable characters through a world inspired by Central European mythology.
Might & Magic X - Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics, turn based combat and a retro mood with The Darkness Below.
Ranked #7 for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Darkness Below.
After a decade, a Might & Magic® RPG is back with both the unique core formula and a new set of improved and fine-tuned features. The best RPG of its class!In the wake of the spectacular events in Might & Magic® Heroes® VI, you will play in a party of four adventurers entangled in intrigue and political machinations unfolding in...
Swords and Sorcery - Underworld - Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Ranked #8 for The Darkness Below fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Swords and Sorcery - Underworld is a party-based, first person view role-playing game with turn-based combat and a square grid 3D environment. The art was made by a professional comics illustrator.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Darkness Below
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Wizardry 8
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Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Reviewers of The Darkness Below cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Darkness Below.
A New Wizardry for a New GenerationThe universe is in the throes of violent upheaval and change. Vast and mysterious forces are preparing for the final confrontation. A small group of heroes from distant lands must plunge into the heart of the maelstrom, to uncover long-forgotten secrets, and bring about a new era.
The Quest
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Reviewers of The Darkness Below cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
The Quest is a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement, turn based combat and intricate quests. Explore a huge world, full of challenging mysteries and dangerous monsters!
Heroes of Might & Magic V
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a nostalgic mood with The Darkness Below.
Reviewers of The Darkness Below cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
A Bastard's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Reviewers of The Darkness Below cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes
Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar (V2)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Darkness Below.
Reviewers of The Darkness Below cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Cleveland Mark Blakemore's Magnum Opus! The ultimate classic style turn-based roleplaying game in the tradition of Wizardry, Might&Magic, Lands Of Lore and Eye of the Beholder! 600+ hours of play with hand-painted graphics and old skool goodness!
Legends of Amberland III
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Reviewers of The Darkness Below cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Darkness Below at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under The Darkness Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkness Below.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~41% under The Darkness Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~41% under The Darkness Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Darkness Below.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~41% under The Darkness Below on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Darkness Below.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~71% under The Darkness Below on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Darkness Below.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Darkness Below.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
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 Darkness Below.
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 Darkness Below.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness Below.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Darkness Below
- Does The Darkness Below run on Steam Deck?
- The Darkness Below is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Darkness Below cost?
- The Darkness Below is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Darkness Below?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Darkness Below are Underkeep, Dragon Wars, Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees.
- Who developed The Darkness Below?
- The Darkness Below was developed by ELEFTHERIADIS SAVVAS.
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 Darkness Below.
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