Games like Darkway: Murder of King Mere
If Darkway: Murder of King Mere is your kind of game, the closest matches are Betrayal At Club Low, Faeborne and Let Bions Be Bygones — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Darkway: Murder of King Mere: The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow. You are the Apprentice, sent by the Master Detective to the City of Ink, to uncover who really murdered the King at the edge of the world.
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Betrayal At Club Low
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Top pick for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Faeborne
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Faeborne is a story-driven action-adventure indie game with fast-paced combat, precision platforming, and magical abilities. Explore a cinematic fantasy world, battle stone golems, solve puzzles, and uncover memories to bring your sister home.
Let Bions Be Bygones
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Third-strongest match for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue choices and an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Ranked #4 for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.
Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Ranked #5 for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
You’re the Private Investigator on a string of grisly murders, scouring for clues in a 3D side-scrolling world. Grab your fedora and revolver - in Hot Tin Roof you’re on the case! Dive into a noir mystery and become Emma Jones, the only PI partnered to a cat named Franky.
Who's Lila?
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Ranked #6 for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Murdered: Soul Suspect
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Ranked #7 for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
The Wolf Among Us
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Ranked #8 for Darkway: Murder of King Mere fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Reviewers of Darkway: Murder of King Mere cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Paradise Killer
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Reviewers of Darkway: Murder of King Mere cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
The Case of the Golden Idol
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Reviewers of Darkway: Murder of King Mere cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
Elysium
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Reviewers of Darkway: Murder of King Mere cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Darkway: Murder of King Mere at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~88% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~75% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Darkway: Murder of King Mere on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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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 Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
A Date with Death
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
You’re the Private Investigator on a string of grisly murders, scouring for clues in a 3D side-scrolling world. Grab your fedora and revolver - in Hot Tin Roof you’re on the case! Dive into a noir mystery and become Emma Jones, the only PI partnered to a cat named Franky.
Who's Lila?
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Murdered: Soul Suspect
WHY THIS
Shares exploration and an atmospheric mood with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Darkway: Murder of King Mere.
MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.
Frequently asked about Darkway: Murder of King Mere
- How much does Darkway: Murder of King Mere cost?
- Darkway: Murder of King Mere is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Darkway: Murder of King Mere?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkway: Murder of King Mere are Betrayal At Club Low, Faeborne, Let Bions Be Bygones.
- Who developed Darkway: Murder of King Mere?
- Darkway: Murder of King Mere was developed by IM/MORTAL Studios, Pierce Papke / Ekpap and published by IM/MORTAL Studios.
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