Rank 01Why this
Also Heist and Team-Based, like Dark Hours: Prologue.
- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- Deck Playable
- 2025
Games like Dark Hours: Prologue
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- Updated May 4, 2026
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Shares stealth and co op multiplayer with Dark Hours: Prologue.
- $4.19 (Price checked Oct 31)
- Deck Playable
- 2023
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Murky Divers
Why this: Also Survival Horror and Procedural Generation, like Dark Hours: Prologue.
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Blood Typers
Why this: Shares wave based combat and co op multiplayer with Dark Hours: Prologue.
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PANICORE
Why this: Shares stealth avoidance and stealth with Dark Hours: Prologue.
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Why this: Shares co op multiplayer and resource management with Dark Hours: Prologue.
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Also Survival Horror and Procedural Generation, like Dark Hours: Prologue.
- 87% of 2,182 reviews
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Shares wave based combat and co op multiplayer with Dark Hours: Prologue.
- 95% of 689 reviews
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Shares co op multiplayer and resource management with Dark Hours: Prologue.
- 78% of 131 reviews
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Shares stealth and environmental puzzle solving with Dark Hours: Prologue.
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Shares co op multiplayer and environmental puzzle solving with Dark Hours: Prologue.
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Shares stealth avoidance and co op multiplayer with Dark Hours: Prologue.
- 79% of 335 reviews
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- Released: 2024
- Developer: Piece of Cake studios
- Price: Free to play
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 87% of 1,098 reviews
- Genres: Action, Adventure, Free To Play
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Atmospheric dark setting with jumpscares
- Can troll teammates as a monster
- Contracts require creative problem solving
- Atmospheric
- Dark
- Intense
About Dark Hours: Prologue
The closest matches to Dark Hours: Prologue: Dark Hours, MIMESIS, Backrooms Society, Murky Divers, and Blood Typers. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Dark Hours: Prologue is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dark Hours, MIMESIS and Backrooms Society — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, dark and intense, and single out its contract based progression and co op multiplayer. 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.
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game from Piece of Cake studios, released in 2024, for one to four players. A heist gone wrong traps a team of robbers with a monster, and survival means exploring, solving environmental puzzles, and hiding, with monsters that can hear players through their microphone driving the tension. Procedural generation and contract-based progression vary each run. Reviewers praise the atmospheric dark setting with jumpscares, the mic-detection mechanic, and the free co-op horror with friends. As a free prologue rated Playable on Steam Deck, it holds 87% positive across 1,098 Steam reviews. It serves as an introduction to the larger Dark Hours universe.
About Dark Hours: Prologue: Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
Is Dark Hours: Prologue worth buying?
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 87% of 1,098 Steam reviews are positive.
- Last 30 days: 87% positive across 105 new reviews, in line with its all-time score.
- Free to play.
- People who recommend it had played a median of 3 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics usually quit early: a median of 1.6 h played before their negative review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Atmospheric dark setting with jumpscares
- Can troll teammates as a monster
- Contracts require creative problem solving
- First taste of the dark hours universe
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“this is so bad. don't bother playing it. yes its free but the time you waste on it is too steep a price. enemy ai is so astoundingly bad. had the ghost lady kill someone and camp their body, only to spam that ice scream any time anyone…”
People who play it also play: Dark Hours, MIMESIS, Backrooms Society
Frequently asked about Dark Hours: Prologue
Can I run it?
Does Dark Hours: Prologue run on Steam Deck?
Dark Hours: Prologue is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
Is Dark Hours: Prologue free to play?
Yes — Dark Hours: Prologue is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
Does Dark Hours: Prologue have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Dark Hours: Prologue supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Dark Hours: Prologue?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Hours: Prologue are Dark Hours, MIMESIS, Backrooms Society.
Who developed Dark Hours: Prologue?
Dark Hours: Prologue was developed by Piece of Cake studios and published by Piece of Cake studios, Kepler Ghost.