Games like Dark Engines
If Dark Engines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cosmic Race: Galactic Showdown, Diesel Guns and Toybox Havoc: Arcade Combat Racing — 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 Dark Engines: Choose a juggernaut and blast through a dark fantasy campaign of brutal car combat, bosses, and unlocks. Then bring the carnage online in tight team-based multiplayer where explosives, magic, and heavy metal decide who survives.
Players who liked Dark Engines also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Engines 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.
Cosmic Race: Galactic Showdown
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Cosmic Race is a sci-fi Combat Racing game inspired by retro arcade racers. Race across vibrant alien worlds, defeat opponents in destruction-rich environments, and become the Cosmic Champion.
Diesel Guns
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
"Diesel Guns"- is an Arcade Multiplayer Online Car Combat (AMOCC) game set to deliver the same thrill you remember from classic AMOCCs like „Twisted Metal“ and „Vigilante 8“.
Toybox Havoc: Arcade Combat Racing
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Toybox Havoc is a toy-scale arcade combat racer where every lap turns into a living-room battlefield. Drift across oversized household tracks, collect rockets, mines and boosts, blast rival toy cars off the table, and survive chaotic races against AI or friends.
Airframe Ultra
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
There's only two types of racers in Megacity West: The winners and the dead. So fire up your airframe and strap on your katana. Welcome to the violent underground world of Ultra Circuit racing!
KEO
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
KEO is a team-based online multiplayer vehicle combat game set in a sci-fi post-apocalyptic world. Build your loadout to suit your playstyle and balance your team to dominate the battlefield using futuristic remote controlled vehicles!
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
FlatOut 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.
FlatOut
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Engines fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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More from Crashable Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Crashable Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Alum
WHY THIS
Another title from Crashable Studios, the studio behind Dark Engines.
Guide Alum on his journey through the "Land of Tide". Help him discover the truth about his city, Kosmos, and the mysterious epidemic known as "The Vague". As the tale unfolds, it will keep you enthralled all the way up to its epic conclusion. Alum is an original point-and-click adventure game.
Sentry City
WHY THIS
Another title from Crashable Studios, the studio behind Dark Engines. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Sentry City is a cyberpunk-style side-scroller with gameplay that is part trial-and-error, and part reaction time based. Traverse the city using the motorcycle overworld map, blast and think your way through the levels, and fight tough bosses to uncover who is behind the city's AI disruption.
Wildwood Down
WHY THIS
Another title from Crashable Studios, the studio behind Dark Engines.
Step into the hilariously twisted world of Wildwood Down, a side-splitting comedy thriller. Featuring a protagonist with Down Syndrome. (Inspired by and voice acted by the Dev's childhood friend!) Perfect for fans of the P-n-C adventure genre and new comers looking for a wild heartfelt ride!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
FlatOut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Dark Engines.
Ram through pile-ups and smash through your windshield as you push racing to the edge! FlatOut™ delivers more heart-stopping thrills than any sane driver can handle!
Frequently asked about Dark Engines
- Does Dark Engines have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dark Engines supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dark Engines?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Engines are Cosmic Race: Galactic Showdown, Diesel Guns, Toybox Havoc: Arcade Combat Racing.
- Who developed Dark Engines?
- Dark Engines was developed by Crashable Studios.
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