Games like The Dark Between
If The Dark Between is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tear Factory, Barbotine and The Rain Spirit : Code Breaker — 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 Dark Between: BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. Survive within surreal mazes in this retro first-person horror, where only by reassembling your soul can you escape.
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Steam players who put hours into The Dark Between 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.
Tear Factory
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
A game about hunting rats, feeding them to your family, and going to bed.
Barbotine
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.
The Rain Spirit : Code Breaker
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
An atmospheric, folk-horror adventure game about uncovering hidden codes in a cursed rain-soaked world. A blend of adventure, fantasy and horror. Uncover a huge interactive world filled with codes , clues and puzzles to unlock in different areas.
Tormenture
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
Navicula Meatus
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Between.
A dark and surreal puzzle adventure set in a decaying town where veins pulse through ruined structures and the night hums with unfamiliar life.
Kairo
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Lake Haven - Chrysalis
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Dark Between.
This game serves as a prequel chapter for the upcoming game 'Lake Haven'. Detective Zeke Reynold is called to investigate what he assumes will be another case he'll quickly forget, but what he finds will be sewn into the fabric of his existence forever.
HORROR TALES: The Beggar
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dark Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
Control space-time to fight an evil monster in this terror and science fiction journey set in a shattered but beautiful world. Bend physics, the sky and the earth itself in engaging boss-fight encounters with the full power of Unreal Engine 5 and Nvidia DLSS.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Between at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Dark Between.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Between.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Dark Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Between.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
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. Shares Indie with The Dark Between.
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 Between.
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 Indie with The Dark Between.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
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 Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
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. Shares Indie with The Dark Between.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Dark Between.
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.
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Frequently asked about The Dark Between
- How much does The Dark Between cost?
- The Dark Between is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Between?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Between are Tear Factory, Barbotine, The Rain Spirit : Code Breaker.
- Who developed The Dark Between?
- The Dark Between was developed by RedRooms.
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 Dark Between.
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