Games like KON: Tale of the Darkness
If KON: Tale of the Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Adventure in Hender´s Castle, Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow and Nothing At Stake — 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 KON: Tale of the Darkness: A dark-fantasy interdimensional adventure. Snap your fingers to explore overlapping realities, face high-intensity platforming sections, solve environmental puzzles, and escape a deadly force threatening to consume everything.
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Adventure in Hender´s Castle
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Top pick for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
Explore Hender’s Castle in a quest for a forbidden spell in this 3D action-adventure. Draw magic circles, brew potions, invoke spirits, bargain with ghosts and above all else: don't lose your cauldron!
Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow
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Second-strongest match for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
The mystical Egyptian underworld beckons you in Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow! Foil the plans of Set and Apep using your powers of light. Explore the varied environments of the underworld and battle your way through in this epic pixel art style Metroidvania.
Nothing At Stake
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Third-strongest match for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
Three days. A doomed world destined to be flattened. A cult escapee wanders in obscurity, cultivating the little community that remains. Despite history comprehended and otherworldly horror culled, there remains nothing at stake.
WaxHeart
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Ranked #4 for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
An atmospheric puzzle-adventure platformer where a wax child with a lantern for a heart journeys through a ruined world in search of their lost memory.
HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma
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Ranked #5 for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
Trapped on the mysterious planet Zaruma, use tools like the Drone, Scanner, and Hookshot to explore the ruins of an ancient civilization and uncover what happened before your arrival.
Seed of Life
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Ranked #6 for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
Seed of Life is an old school action-adventure game. You play as Hope, a wolf spirit on a quest to restore natural order. In your journey, you'll be accompanied by a bird named Letty. Use both their unique skills to explore exotic places, fight formidable foes, and discover hidden secrets.
MUTAGEN
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Ranked #7 for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Study the environment to find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets.
Pumpkin & Patch
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Ranked #8 for KON: Tale of the Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
EmBARK on an all-new adventure with Patch, a one-eyed Shiba Inu dog in search of a new family. Travel with Patch and his new friend, Pumpkin, on this exciting 2D Metroidvania to battle dangerous bosses, explore the Hollowed Lands, and gain fun new abilities!
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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 KON: Tale of the Darkness.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
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 Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
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. Shares Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with KON: Tale of the Darkness.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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- What games are most similar to KON: Tale of the Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside KON: Tale of the Darkness are Adventure in Hender´s Castle, Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow, Nothing At Stake.
- Who developed KON: Tale of the Darkness?
- KON: Tale of the Darkness was developed by Thom Raktar.
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 KON: Tale of the Darkness.
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