Games like Darkphobia
If Darkphobia is your kind of game, the closest matches are 韦弗利山 - Waverly Hills, Late Homework | 遅れた宿題 and Layers of Fear 2 (2019) — 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 Darkphobia: Turn off the lights. Reach the bed. Stay alive. Play through three intertwining nightmares where light is your only lifeline. Don't stay in the dark too long, or "It" will find you.
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Steam players who put hours into Darkphobia 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.
韦弗利山 - Waverly Hills
WHY THIS
Top pick for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkphobia.
A real-time exploration horror game. You will explore an abandoned hospital in the game and search for key items to escape from birth. Please beware of those fears from darkness and unknown.
Late Homework | 遅れた宿題
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors. Explore the dilapidated halls, find your missing homework, and avoid whatever's lurking around the corner in this bite-sized, retro survival horror experience.
Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
The Heilwald Loophole
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
The Heilwald Klinikum used to be one of the most renowned medical facilities in Germany. That all changed when that curious loophole appeared...
The Backrooms Project
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Ranked #5 for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkphobia.
Scientists made a new discovery about the Backrooms. Noclipping out of bounds in normal reality was a myth for long, but now it can be real! Now they are looking for subjects to test it on civil people. There are already scientists inside, so you have nothing to worry about, they say. Or do you?
Never Again
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Ranked #6 for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Darkphobia fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkphobia.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Darkphobia.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkphobia.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkphobia.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Darkphobia.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
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.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Late Homework | 遅れた宿題
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors. Explore the dilapidated halls, find your missing homework, and avoid whatever's lurking around the corner in this bite-sized, retro survival horror experience.
Mundaun
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkphobia.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Frequently asked about Darkphobia
- What games are most similar to Darkphobia?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkphobia are 韦弗利山 - Waverly Hills, Late Homework | 遅れた宿題, Layers of Fear 2 (2019).
- Who developed Darkphobia?
- Darkphobia was developed by Vitameow and published by Paleo.
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 Darkphobia.
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