Games like Tale of Darkness
If Tale of Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nevermore: The Chamber Door, The Gentleman's Rise and Tearscape — 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 Tale of Darkness: Tale of Darkness is a brutal, action roguelite. Play as the Betrayed King, ascend from the grave, fight your way through hordes of twisted enemies, defeat your betrayers and free the realm of the Oblivion. Then die and do it all over again.
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Steam players who put hours into Tale of Darkness 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.
Nevermore: The Chamber Door
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Top pick for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
NEVERMORE: The Chamber Door is an indie game developed by just one person, with fluid combat in the style of hack n 'slash and lore inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
The Gentleman's Rise
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Second-strongest match for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
Descend into a corrupted 1930s asylum in a 2D eldritch action Souls-like. Master scythe combat, dodge, block and parry deadly attacks, recover lost Sanity, replay completed levels, and rise stronger with every descent.
Tearscape
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Third-strongest match for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
As a hunter, you explore a dark, interconnected world filled with dungeons, relying on precise combat to survive. Battle grotesque monsters, expand your arsenal, and uncover hidden paths in a non-linear, pixel art journey.
Monkey King Simulator -- Chapter Huaguo Mountain
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Ranked #4 for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
Stories revised from Journey to the West. Souls-like combats; Powerful Bosses; Hundreds of different Weapon&Armors; Super big map to explore; Nothing special? You cut me!
Dinoblade
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Ranked #5 for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
Dinoblade is an intense action RPG set in a prehistoric world forever changed by a cataclysmic event. Step into the role of a young Spinosaurus, wielding a colossal Great Sword. Confront rival dinosaurs, some armed with weapons of their own, all in a desperate fight to prevent a looming extinction.
Hunt the Night
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Ranked #6 for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
Hunt the Night is a retro-style action-RPG that blends fast, skillful combat with dark fantasy lore. Play as Vesper, a member of the Stalkers, and traverse the ruined world of Medhram on a mission to save humanity from a deadly cycle of annihilation.
VOIN
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Ranked #7 for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
Crafted by a solo developer, VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash. Cleave through hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. Explore dark fantasy realms filled with secrets and dangers. Discover powerful gear and weapons, and face menacing bosses in your quest to cleanse a broken world.
The Relic: First Guardian
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Ranked #8 for Tale of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Tale of Darkness.
A dark action RPG rooted in Korean mythology, with brutal, fast combat.
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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 with Tale of 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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tale of Darkness.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tale of Darkness.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tale of 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 with Tale of Darkness.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Tale of Darkness
- What games are most similar to Tale of Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tale of Darkness are Nevermore: The Chamber Door, The Gentleman's Rise, Tearscape.
- Who developed Tale of Darkness?
- Tale of Darkness was developed by Gravity Labs, Phoenix Rise Studios and published by Gravity Labs, Phoenix Rise Studios.
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 Tale of Darkness.
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