Games like Dark Awakening
If Dark Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are That Village, Sanity of Morris and Aokigahara :The death forest — 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 Dark Awakening: Single-player psychological horror. As researcher Ethan, investigate cursed areas, identify the ancient beast unleashed, and perform the correct ritual. One mistake could be fatal. The wrong ritual... results in death.
Players who liked Dark Awakening also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Awakening 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.
That Village
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Top pick for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
As the village of Yugra forgets its past, the power of an ancient community awakens once more. Twelve objects, as part of a ritual, lead the villagers toward a dark future. Galip embarks on a journey to stop the magic and uncover its secrets.
Sanity of Morris
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Second-strongest match for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
Sanity of Morris: a psychological horror adventure game. Your flashlight reveals the clues you need to stay sane in the search for your father. Discover the truth. Could aliens be real?
Aokigahara :The death forest
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Third-strongest match for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
Aokifahara : The Death Forest is a psychological horror game set in a cursed forest where hallucinations blur reality. Solve puzzles, survive terrifying visions, and uncover the truth behind the legend—before you lose your
Lost Chronology
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Ranked #4 for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
Explore Past your Guilt and Denial. This Psychological Puzzle Horror will have you Explore your Psyche, 1 Minute before you Die! Are you Ready to Dig into the Darkness, Unearthing your Deepest, most Shameful Secrets?
Grinnel
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Ranked #5 for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
If you stop, the light dies. If you turn, darkness takes over. As a patient trapped in Grinnel, escape this psychological horror nightmare with Dr. Esin. Use your visor in the atmospheric labyrinth and never look back; in this surreal thriller, your gaze is your worst enemy.
Awakeness: YALDA Night
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Ranked #6 for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
Awakeness is a first-person psychological horror set in Barzakh, a higher layer of reality where space and emotion distort. Explore looping corridors, solve subtle environmental puzzles, and evade an unseen presence using stealth and light.
Friki
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Ranked #7 for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
Friki is an online co-op investigative horror. Solve how these supernatural beings have died, collect evidence to be paid, and survive the dangers that await you.
The Snare
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Ranked #8 for Dark Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Awakening.
The Snare is a single-player crime and horror game. Atlas follows clues sent by the masked man to rescue his wife, Samira. As he attempts to uncover the reason behind Samira's abduction, he encounters startling truths, plunging into a labyrinth of deceit and danger.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Awakening.
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 with Dark Awakening.
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 and Indie with Dark Awakening.
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 Indie with Dark Awakening.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Awakening.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Indie with Dark Awakening.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Awakening.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Awakening.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Dark Awakening
- What games are most similar to Dark Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Awakening are That Village, Sanity of Morris, Aokigahara :The death forest.
- Who developed Dark Awakening?
- Dark Awakening was developed by Gvn Games.
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 Dark Awakening.
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