Games like The Dark Story: Starving Child
If The Dark Story: Starving Child is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Silver Case, Crime O'Clock and Telling Lies — 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 Story: Starving Child: Become an investigator and uncover the truths shrouded in darkness. The protagonist responds to a report of a discovered corpse and heads to the scene. As the investigation progresses, they get closer to uncovering the truth.
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The Silver Case
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Top pick for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
Crime O'Clock
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Unheard - Voices of Crime
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
What if you could hear every word spoken at the scene of a crime? “Acoustic Detectives” wanted for testing our new device! Return aurally to crime scenes and use the voices you hear to identify potential suspects and solve the mysteries. What is it that’s connecting these seemingly unrelated cases?
Roman's Christmas / 罗曼圣诞探案集
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Roman, the wolf detective plans to spend his Christmas vacation in his favorite tavern, but murder cases happened in the tavern put him to work again.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Rusty Lake: Roots
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
Rusty Lake Hotel
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Dark Story: Starving Child fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Dark Story: Starving Child at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Dark Story: Starving Child on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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 ~60% under The Dark Story: Starving Child on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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 ~70% under The Dark Story: Starving Child on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Dark Story: Starving Child on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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 ~60% under The Dark Story: Starving Child on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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 ~60% under The Dark Story: Starving Child on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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
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Priced ~80% under The Dark Story: Starving Child on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
"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 Story: Starving Child.
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.
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 Story: Starving Child.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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 Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Rusty Lake: Roots
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
Rusty Lake Hotel
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with The Dark Story: Starving Child.
Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Frequently asked about The Dark Story: Starving Child
- How much does The Dark Story: Starving Child cost?
- The Dark Story: Starving Child is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Dark Story: Starving Child?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Dark Story: Starving Child are The Silver Case, Crime O'Clock, Telling Lies.
- Who developed The Dark Story: Starving Child?
- The Dark Story: Starving Child was developed by nValue Games.
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