Games like Darkest Darkness
If Darkest Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Noir Lords, 深渊书简 and Meme Cards: Chaos Deck — 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 Darkest Darkness: Darkest Darkness is a roguelike deck-building game with extraction elements. Choose your identity and venture into a Lovecraftian town. Craft every card yourself—collect materials, build powerful cards, plan your route, or extract with your gathered materials to gain an edge in your next run.
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Noir Lords
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Top pick for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Darkness.
A fast-paced single-player card battler with tactical choices, quick rounds, and upgradeable cards. Build your deck and outsmart the city’s crime lords.
深渊书简
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Darkness.
深渊之书是一款克苏鲁风格的多人组队冒险类卡牌构筑Rouguelike游戏。每个角色除自身卡牌构筑外，还可以通过游戏特有的深渊“书简”和“追忆”形成技能连携、给予敌人额外伤害。玩家将组织一支自杀探险小队，接受女伯爵委托，前往神秘的深渊群岛去探寻疯狂黑公爵的秘密。
Meme Cards: Chaos Deck
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Darkness.
Meme Cards: Chaos Deck is a meme-fueled roguelike deckbuilder where traditional Chinese culture crashes into internet absurdity. Build wild decks from meme-powered cards, defeat bizarre enemies, climb a twisted pagoda, and uncover the secrets hidden beyond the mist across repeated runs.
Vegangsters
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Ranked #4 for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Darkness.
Embark into a deck-building roguelike where real-time action will challenge your reaction and strategy skills. Face the deadliest criminals in intense turn-based combat, where each card defines the pace of the battle and save the city from the Vegangsters!
Roll to Ruin
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Ranked #5 for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Darkness.
Roll to Ruin is a medieval dice roguelite. Roll, hold, bank or farkle — Farkle rules with a deckbuilding twist. Battle through seven taverns, build your dice deck, wield 34 badges to flip the table. Outscore your rival or lose it all. Dice are fate. Every wager counts. Just one more... right?
Dicebinder
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Ranked #6 for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Darkness.
A dark fantasy roguelite card battler where every roll becomes mana. Spend dice to cast creature skills, shield, save for combos, or bind defeated enemies into your party.
Shuffles 'n Scuffles
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Ranked #7 for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Darkest Darkness.
You make the cards! Use your wits and curiosity to build a deck ready to take on the Skeleton Crew and their waves of baddies!
Rogue Paper Scissors
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Ranked #8 for Darkest Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Darkness.
What if Rock-Paper-Scissors became a roguelite extraction deckbuilder? You'll build a deck of deadly choices, master bizarre traits, and craft powerful hybrid cards. Extract your loot, or risk everything for the next floor. Sometimes, the best strategy is knowing when to run.
Free alternatives
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkest Darkness.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkest Darkness.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkest Darkness.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkest Darkness.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tukoni: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkest Darkness.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkest Darkness.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Meteor 60 Seconds!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkest Darkness.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
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Frequently asked about Darkest Darkness
- What games are most similar to Darkest Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkest Darkness are Noir Lords, 深渊书简, Meme Cards: Chaos Deck.
- Who developed Darkest Darkness?
- Darkest Darkness was developed by Messy Sloth.
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 Darkest Darkness.
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