Games like Darkwood 2
If Darkwood 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Darkwood, Bleak Faith: Forsaken and Pathologic Classic HD — 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 Darkwood 2: Roam freely around the scorched deserts of a dying sea as you secure resources and explore the mysteries of Darkwood. But beware nightfall – seek shelter, shore up your defenses, and pray for the morning light as the horrors of the world hunt the ill-prepared.
Players who liked Darkwood 2 also play
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Darkwood
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Top pick for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Darkwood 2.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Bleak Faith: Forsaken
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
Pathologic Classic HD
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.
Ad Infinitum
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Ranked #4 for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.
Slender: The Arrival
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
We Happy Few
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Darkwood 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Darkwood 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Darkwood 2.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Ice-Pick Lodge
Other recommendable Steam games by Ice-Pick Lodge, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Pathologic 2
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Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood 2.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Pathologic Classic HD
WHY THIS
Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.
Pathologic 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood 2.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
Knock-knock
WHY THIS
Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Adventure with Darkwood 2.
There is an unusual cabin deep in the woods. It had served as a laboratory and a dwelling for three generations of Lodgers.But as of late the latest Lodger has been noticing weird changes in familiar surroundings; things are missing, noises and rattle heard. Something odd is coming out of the woods.
The Void
WHY THIS
Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Only brought to life by scarce sparks of Color, the bleak, grey Void is a peculiar place. The player gets to explore it, get to know the Sisters, Brothers, and other weird creatures inhabiting it, and learn the ways of Color, harvesting it and drawing sigils that change the world around them.
Know by heart
WHY THIS
Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity
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Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!
Pathologic 3: Quarantine
WHY THIS
Another title from Ice-Pick Lodge, the studio behind Darkwood 2. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkwood 2.
In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Darkwood 2.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Pathologic Classic HD
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.
We Happy Few
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Darkwood 2.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Frequently asked about Darkwood 2
- What games are most similar to Darkwood 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkwood 2 are Darkwood, Bleak Faith: Forsaken, Pathologic Classic HD.
- Who developed Darkwood 2?
- Darkwood 2 was developed by Ice-Pick Lodge and published by Hooded Horse.
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