Games like Dark Arcana: The Carnival
If Dark Arcana: The Carnival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek, Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered and Left in the Dark: No One on Board — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its logical and clear puzzles, atmospheric and eerie. 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.
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Players who liked Dark Arcana: The Carnival also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Arcana: The Carnival 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.
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Top pick for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Let one of the most thrilling adventures of your life begin!
Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object scenes, mini games and an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Second-strongest match for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Face the Time Traveller to save the future!
Left in the Dark: No One on Board
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Third-strongest match for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Discover what connects a lost ship’s disappearance with Devil’s Island and a local family’s unsolved murder.
Mind Snares: Alice's Journey
WHY THIS
Shares hidden object scenes and an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Ranked #4 for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Escape from the Shadow Land!
Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Ranked #5 for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Learn Davy Jones’s secrets in order to defeat him in the final battle!
9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek
WHY THIS
Shares map navigation, achievement tracking and an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Ranked #6 for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Save your missing friend and reveal the corruption of the town’s citizens to stop an evil plot to bring the evil Snake God back to our world.
Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Ranked #7 for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Unburied secrets burn like wild steam – nothing is what it appears!
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Ranked #8 for Dark Arcana: The Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Arcana: The Carnival at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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 Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Dark Arcana: The Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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?
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 Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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 Adventure with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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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More from Artifex Mundi
Other recommendable Steam games by Artifex Mundi, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Brother Rabbit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination.
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Let one of the most thrilling adventures of your life begin!
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Enter Ravenwood Park and discover the secrets hidden in the mists…
Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Enter an enchanting world of legends and magic, where your destiny was written in blood and whispers of true love.
Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan
WHY THIS
Shares map navigation, hidden object scenes and an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Save the feuding kingdoms!
Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Take a deep breath and find your fiancée who went missing in the dark abyss of the ocean.
Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Would you like to enter a thrilling Pirates world where danger lurks in every corner?You are a museum owner pursuing an undead pirate who kidnapped your daughter. You quickly realize that the villain is entangled in a tragic, centuries-old love story, and wants to resurrect his mistress with the girl’s life force.
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Another title from Artifex Mundi, the studio behind Dark Arcana: The Carnival. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala is the final chapter in the blockbuster trilogy, an exciting detective story rife with adventure, puzzles, and ancient mystery. Follow the trail of a demonic preacher and unravel the secrets of Karkhala Peak!
Frequently asked about Dark Arcana: The Carnival
- How much does Dark Arcana: The Carnival cost?
- Dark Arcana: The Carnival is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Arcana: The Carnival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Arcana: The Carnival are Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek, Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered, Left in the Dark: No One on Board.
- Who developed Dark Arcana: The Carnival?
- Dark Arcana: The Carnival was developed by Artifex Mundi.
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 Dark Arcana: The Carnival.
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