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Games like KON: Tale of the Darkness

If KON: Tale of the Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are UNGALAND!, HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma and Seed of Life — 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.

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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.

ActionIndieWindowsby Thom Raktar
KON: Tale of the Darkness — Steam game cover

Players who liked KON: Tale of the Darkness also play

Steam players who put hours into KON: Tale of the Darkness 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.

  1. UNGALAND!

    WHY THIS

    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.

    "Dive into a prehistoric world of adventure where the power of primal seeds changes everything. Unlock abilities, attach them to your weapons, and face challenges in a vibrant land full of action, and surprises."

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma

    WHY THIS

    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.

    Solve puzzles using your Scanner and Hookshot to traversal or move objects in the mysterious planet of Zaruma and uncover what happened before your arrival.

    2027ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Seed of Life

    WHY THIS

    Third-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.

    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.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Frog Fall

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 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.

    Eskweenkleh Brahvoh, I made you to escape this labyrinthine prison. Forget their gravity; you bring your own. Embrace confusion; leap over the impossible, roll on, and, kohn ehl fahbohr dehdyohs, bounce high enough to charm the world’s corpse.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. BRODUCE

    WHY THIS

    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.

    BRODUCE is a 3D platforming adventure game. Customize your BRODUCE and explore the universe! Solo, online with friends, or on a public server.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Metro Gravity

    WHY THIS

    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.

    Explore, fight, solve puzzles and bend gravity to escape the dream-like world of the Halls! Metro Gravity is a mind-boggling musical adventure with rhythmic combat and compelling lore.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure6.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Ary and the Secret of Seasons

    WHY THIS

    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.

    Take control of the seasons and use them to solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and discover the beautiful world of Valdi in this award-winning indie adventure.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 9 Years of Shadows

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 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.

    Fight to bring beautiful colors back to a hand-crafted world of darkness and discover the story of Europa, a young warrior, and her ghostly childhood companion, Apino.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    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.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    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

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about KON: Tale of the Darkness

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 UNGALAND!, HIIT: Stranded on Zaruma, Seed of Life.
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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