Games like Dark Fear
If Dark Fear is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Door - Collector's Edition, Quest for Infamy and Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don´t Eat Flamingos — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, eerie and mysterious. 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 Fear: Dark Fear is a pixel horror game with RPG and adventure game elements. Explore a diverse landscape filled with forests, mountains, lakes and deserts. Make allies in the local village, upgrade your weapon and armor, go hunting/fishing and fight your way to the truth by slaying your foes, solving puzzles and helping people with their...
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The Last Door - Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Shares point and click exploration and an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Top pick for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England. Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
Quest for Infamy
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Second-strongest match for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Wealth. Women. Wildly offbeat jokes. Lie, cheat, steal, and embrace your inner rogue. Being bad has never felt so good.
Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don´t Eat Flamingos
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and a mysterious mood with Dark Fear.
Third-strongest match for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Baobabs Mausoleum™. Mixing Monkey Island, Zelda Link´s Awakening DX with Twin Peaks and SpongeBob Squarepants. Welcome To Flamingo´s Creek: Population 64.
Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Ranked #4 for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
A retro styled adventure/RPG hybrid with atmosphere like the classics. Play as warrior, sorceress, or rogue as you travel through the rich world of Norse mythology to keep it from eternal winter. Each class has different puzzle solutions, making for good replay value. Fully free, no hidden costs.
Stories Untold
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Ranked #5 for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Ranked #6 for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
The Corruption Within
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Ranked #7 for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
The Corruption Within is a psychological thriller first-person point & click adventure game set in the Victorian era, with an emphasis on strong narrative, intriguing characters and puzzle-solving.
The Charnel House Trilogy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Ranked #8 for Dark Fear fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.
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Hero of the Kingdom
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Fear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Lovely adventuring RPG series. Casual, story-driven journey and quests. Your home has been raided. Your father is missing. Set off on a dangerous journey to save him, and become the hero of the kingdom.
Cube Escape Collection
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Reviewers of Dark Fear cross-mention this title as a similar play.
In this classic point-and-click adventure anthology you follow the path of Dale and Laura and other famous Rusty lake characters such as Mr. Crow and Mr. Owl. The series will be updated, preserved and bundled to survive the end of the Flash Games era.
Uninvited Guest
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Reviewers of Dark Fear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Uninvited Guest is a first-person psychological horror game set in 1930. You play as a villager who was destined to end up in an old mansion.
Unwelcome
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Fear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Stay alive in this weird and peculiar horror experience. What begins as a game between friends turns into a race for your life. Take a breath and enter the house.
Abandoned Cabins in the Woods
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Fear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Abandoned Cabins in the Woods is a 2D Top-Down Survival Horror game based on the story of a paranormal investigator and streamer called Thomas who decided to investigate the haunted Idaho woods for the paranormal evidence upon the request of his fans.
Time Snatcher Handy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dark Fear.
Reviewers of Dark Fear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Dark Fear.
The universe's greatest cat burglar? The ultimate phantom thief across dimensions? Nah... Time Snatcher Handy, that's me! A time-stop bullet-hell action roguelike starring "Handy" the stylish cat burglar! Stop the time to dodge bullets, gather items to get stronger, and escape the Time Museum!
Space Snatcher
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dark Fear cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Dark Fear.
Six players. One infested ship. Ten alien monsters. Board increasingly dangerous deep space research vessels to scan alien species while repairing the ship and running from monsters. But the biggest threat might just be your friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Fear at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
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 ~50% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
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 ~63% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
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 ~75% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Fear.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Fear.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
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?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dark Fear.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Fear on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Fear.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Fear.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Fear.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Fear.
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!
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Frequently asked about Dark Fear
- How much does Dark Fear cost?
- Dark Fear is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Fear?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Fear are The Last Door - Collector's Edition, Quest for Infamy, Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don´t Eat Flamingos.
- Who developed Dark Fear?
- Dark Fear was developed by Arif Games.
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