Games like The Dark Rites of Arkham
If The Dark Rites of Arkham is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abscission, Single Malt Apocalypse and Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, comedic and dark. 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 Dark Rites of Arkham: A macabre ritual murder puts Arkham PD detectives Jack Foster and Harvey Whitman to the test. As the investigation progresses, they will unveil a disturbing connection between the Salem witch trials of the 17th century and the end of humankind.
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Abscission
WHY THIS
Shares environmental interaction, character interaction and atmospheric with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Top pick for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Abscission is a Lovecraftian, story-driven horror point-and-click investigation game. It involves searching crime scenes for evidence, combining clues and questioning suspects. Puzzles can have multiple solutions as you guide the protagonist - Detective Will Stanhope - through the story.
Single Malt Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Save the sleepy mining town from a cosmic threat in this late 80s-style adventure with RPG elements. Retro to the core!
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah is a first-person, micro-adventure game that tells the story of P.I. Jim Morrison's encounters with the occult and the extraordinary. Explore your surroundings and solve puzzles in order to uncover the harrowing story of your friend's descent into insanity.
Finally Free
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Play as Jonny, the most stereotypical, flat and generic protagonist you can encounter in a video game. Explore the nightmare that he didn't choose to live through and seal his fate with your decisions.
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Ranked #5 for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
The Beekeeper's Picnic - A Sherlockian Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares point and click with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Ranked #6 for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Beekeeper (and former world’s greatest detective) Sherlock Holmes is arranging a surprise picnic for his friend Watson. Unfortunately pesky mysteries keep getting in the way! Explore, find clues and interrogate your neighbours in this cosy point and click adventure!
Strange Horticulture
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Ranked #7 for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares investigation, environmental puzzle solving and atmospheric with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Ranked #8 for The Dark Rites of Arkham fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Dark Rites of Arkham
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Nightmare Frames
WHY THIS
Shares point and click adventure and an atmospheric mood with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Reviewers of The Dark Rites of Arkham cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Nightmare Frames is a supernatural thriller where you'll step into the shoes of Alan Goldberg, in the search for the scariest horror film of all time. An enthralling journey through the streets of the Hollywood of the 80s, a small haunted town, and even Hell itself.
Project Warlock II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Reviewers of The Dark Rites of Arkham cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Adrenaline-pumping gore retro funhouse that’s full of guns, magic, demons, vertical arenas, 3D visuals, 2D sprites, and heavy metal music. Inspired by FPS classics like Quake and Doom 64, Project Warlock II is the explosive boomer shooter sequel you were too shy to ask for.
Dreams in the Witch House
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Reviewers of The Dark Rites of Arkham cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Navigate the eerie world of Dreams in the Witch House, a unique blend of point-and-click and RPG-adventure. Unravel occult mysteries in Arkham, maintain your sanity, and survive the May-Eve in this Lovecraftian horror game.
Witch Story
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Dark Rites of Arkham cross-mention this title as a similar play.
In a kingdom, there is a witch who lives off the beaten track. She is busy with alchemy, potion-making, fortune-telling ,frightening people and other magic..They say she has already lived for a few centuries here. The local lord is fed up with such neighbourhood...
An English Haunting
WHY THIS
Shares investigation, environmental interaction and atmospheric with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Reviewers of The Dark Rites of Arkham cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
While looking for the existence of the Great Beyond, Professor Patrick Moore, aided by a fake medium, will build a device to see the other side, embark on a search for a millenary artifact, and investigate the most haunted manor of 1907 England.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Rites of Arkham at current Steam store prices.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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 The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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 The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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?
OneShot
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Priced ~60% under The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~87% under The Dark Rites of Arkham on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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.
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 The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Dark Rites of Arkham.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about The Dark Rites of Arkham
- Does The Dark Rites of Arkham run on Steam Deck?
- The Dark Rites of Arkham is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Dark Rites of Arkham cost?
- The Dark Rites of Arkham is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Rites of Arkham?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Rites of Arkham are Abscission, Single Malt Apocalypse, Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah.
- Who developed The Dark Rites of Arkham?
- The Dark Rites of Arkham was developed by Postmodern Adventures and published by enComplot.
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