Games like Dark Pals: The 1st Floor
If Dark Pals: The 1st Floor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Poppy Playtime, HERADÔNIA Director's cut and Chuck Nolemland: The Starving Kid — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and eerie. 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 Dark Pals: The 1st Floor: In this singleplayer mascot horror game you're trapped in an abandoned children’s asylum. Solve twisted puzzles with your Ink Blaster, evade its disturbing mascots, and uncover secrets you had long forgotten about. Do you remember?
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Steam players who put hours into Dark Pals: The 1st Floor 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.
Poppy Playtime
WHY THIS
Shares chase sequences, puzzle solving and an unsettling mood with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Top pick for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
HERADÔNIA Director's cut
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
REPENTANCE IS THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME THE EVILS OF YOUR CORRUPT HEART, THOSE YOU TRIED TO BURY.
Chuck Nolemland: The Starving Kid
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Very STRANGE Indie Rage Horror Game...
MITE - Terror in the forest
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
MITE is a horror game, with some difficulty, in which you play a hiker who has lost his family in a cursed forest... find your family and escape, while strange creatures from Japanese folklore chase you, orient yourself .
The Chaput's Baby
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
The Chaput Baby is a first-person horror game. Play as Samantha, hired to care for the Chaput family's baby. Take on a babysitting night in a former church as you unravel deep secrets about one of the oldest families in the city.
Limerick: Cadence Mansion
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Ranked #6 for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Limerick: Cadence Mansion is a detail-rich first-person action-horror adventure with deep lore, intricate puzzles, satisfying combat, and a happy little marionette who really wants to say "hello."
[ANOMALY TAPES]: Beyond Reality
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Uncover the truth in '[ANOMALY TAPES]: Beyond Reality'. Navigate through haunting levels, survive deadly anomalies with unique mechanics, and piece together a chilling mystery hidden within the tapes. Dare to uncover the secrets?
Bobos FunZone
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Pals: The 1st Floor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Step into the haunting realm of Bobo's Funzone, in this horror/puzzle adventure. Your mission: find your daughter, who was attending a birthday party here. Navigate the eerie corridors, unearth what happend, and be careful and cautious as Bobo is about.
![[ANOMALY TAPES]: Beyond Reality — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3145780/header.jpg?t=1754308263)
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dark Pals: The 1st Floor
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Poppy Playtime
WHY THIS
Shares chase sequences, puzzle solving and an unsettling mood with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Reviewers of Dark Pals: The 1st Floor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Reviewers of Dark Pals: The 1st Floor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Garten of Banban
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Reviewers of Dark Pals: The 1st Floor cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Pals: The 1st Floor at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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 ~83% under Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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.
Sally Face - Episode One
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Downwell
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
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.
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 Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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.
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 Adventure with Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Dark Pals: The 1st Floor
- Does Dark Pals: The 1st Floor run on Steam Deck?
- Dark Pals: The 1st Floor is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Dark Pals: The 1st Floor cost?
- Dark Pals: The 1st Floor is listed on Steam at 5.69 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Pals: The 1st Floor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Pals: The 1st Floor are Poppy Playtime, HERADÔNIA Director's cut, Chuck Nolemland: The Starving Kid.
- Who developed Dark Pals: The 1st Floor?
- Dark Pals: The 1st Floor was developed by Skunx Games.
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 Dark Pals: The 1st Floor.
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