Games like Darkness in the Forest
If Darkness in the Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forest 6174, Nightmare in the Old Mansion and Seybul Tech — 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 Darkness in the Forest: Your car ran out of gas in the wrong place... Escape a bloodthirsty werewolf in an abandoned factory deep in the forest, where darkness is your worst enemy. Survive this night... if you can.
Players who liked Darkness in the Forest also play
Steam players who put hours into Darkness in the Forest 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.
Forest 6174
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Top pick for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
A brief narrative-driven psychological horror experience in first person (no jumpscares, story and dialogue-focused). You play as Danny, who is unexpectedly summoned to receive a break from his daily routine... However, things start to look out of place once you get deeper into the forest.
Nightmare in the Old Mansion
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Second-strongest match for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
Dive into the first-person horror of Nightmare in the Old Mansion and follow John, a real estate agent called to inspect an old mansion. Amid dark corridors and hidden secrets, you must make crucial choices to escape alive.
Seybul Tech
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Third-strongest match for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Seybul Tech is a walking simulator. Navigate as an office employee, confronting peculiar encounters while in search of an exit from this enigmatic abyss.
The Gretlow Tapes
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Ranked #4 for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
Armed with nothing but your camera, investigate the abandoned Gretlow House in this short, atmospheric horror game. Uncover a chilling mystery through a realistic found-footage lens.
Uncanny Tales: Cold Road
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Ranked #5 for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
Uncanny Tales is an episodic horror series where the real terror comes not from monsters or the supernatural, but from people. Each episode is a new unsettling story inspired by real fears and eerie situations from everyday life.
Reflection
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Ranked #6 for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
Case of the mysterious death of Keiko Haraeda
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Ranked #7 for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
Japan, September 12, 1999, at 8:00 p.m., Ms. Keiko Haraeda collapsed in her room and was found dead. Although the police have ruled that there is no case and closed the investigation, many puzzling points remain, and the family is still calling for information.
Clink
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Ranked #8 for Darkness in the Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
You are a lonely woman, secluded in a house with your cat... and the secrets of the past. What hides within your mind — illness, or something otherworldly? Nightmares and reality intertwine… everything is so foggy. Do you have the courage to remember what happened?
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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 Darkness in the Forest.
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.
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 Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
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 Darkness in the Forest.
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 Darkness in the Forest.
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 Indie with Darkness in the Forest.
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 Darkness in the Forest.
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 Darkness in the Forest
- What games are most similar to Darkness in the Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkness in the Forest are Forest 6174, Nightmare in the Old Mansion, Seybul Tech.
- Who developed Darkness in the Forest?
- Darkness in the Forest was developed by CORISCO STÚDIO and published by CORISCO STÚDIO.
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 Darkness in the Forest.
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