Games like The Depths of Despair
If The Depths of Despair is your kind of game, the closest matches are DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin, Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014 and Nioh 3 — 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 Depths of Despair: Slower-paced souls-like RPG with classic MMO progression, skills and ability bar. The world is grim and unforgiving, steeped in despair. Heavy punishment and consequences are naturally present.
Players who liked The Depths of Despair also play
Steam players who put hours into The Depths of Despair 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.
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Depths of Despair.
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin brings the franchise’s renowned obscurity & gripping gameplay to a new level. Join the dark journey and experience overwhelming enemy encounters, diabolical hazards, and unrelenting challenge.
Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Depths of Despair.
Plunge into a dark fantasy Action-RPG, harnessing powerful magic alongside a satisfying combat system. When the tyrannical god, Adyr, invades the human realm seeking vengeance for his imprisonment, humanity calls upon an unlikely defender… a convicted sinner named Harkyn.
Nioh 3
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Depths of Despair.
In the third game in the dark samurai action RPG series Nioh, you will need to use both Samurai and Ninja combat styles in your battles against formidable yokai as you explore a thrilling open field.
Spark in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Depths of Despair.
The hardcore dark fantasy Dungeon Crawler where you will go to the endless depths of a mysterious grim Dungeon.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Depths of Despair.
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is a soulslike, action RPG set in the land of Shu during the dark and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty, plagued with warring factions and a mysterious illness spawning monstrous creatures.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Depths of Despair.
A new dark fantasy Three Kingdoms action RPG from Team NINJA, the developers of Nioh.
CODE VEIN
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Depths of Despair.
In the face of certain death, we rise. Team up and embark on a journey to the ends of hell to unlock your past and escape your living nightmare in CODE VEIN.
Blade of Darkness
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Depths of Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with The Depths of Despair.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
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 The Depths of Despair.
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 The Depths of Despair.
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 The Depths of Despair.
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 The Depths of Despair.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Depths of Despair.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with The Depths of Despair.
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin brings the franchise’s renowned obscurity & gripping gameplay to a new level. Join the dark journey and experience overwhelming enemy encounters, diabolical hazards, and unrelenting challenge.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with The Depths of Despair.
A new dark fantasy Three Kingdoms action RPG from Team NINJA, the developers of Nioh.
Blade of Darkness
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with The Depths of Despair.
Blade of Darkness is a hardcore fantasy action-adventure with unique combat mechanics and role-playing elements that pioneered the “soulsborne” genre. Pick one of four characters to hack and slash through a gory quest to save the world from the forces of Chaos.
Frequently asked about The Depths of Despair
- What games are most similar to The Depths of Despair?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Depths of Despair are DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin, Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014, Nioh 3.
- Who developed The Depths of Despair?
- The Depths of Despair was developed by herbeni.
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 Depths of Despair.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.