Games like Darkened
If Darkened is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tower of Darkness, Queen Slayer and LunaQuest — 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 Darkened: A 2D dark fantasy dungeon crawler RPG with turn-based combat. Fight through dungeon floors, complete quests, defeat bosses, collect loot, and return to town to manage gear, reset skills, and prepare for the next run.
Players who liked Darkened also play
Steam players who put hours into Darkened 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.
Tower of Darkness
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Top pick for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
TOD(Tower of Darkness) is dungeon exploration RPG. Choose one of the main exorcists and explore the tower to defeat the demons and obtain treasures. But be careful! The number of enemies and treasures in the tower is limited, so make good use of them.
Queen Slayer
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Second-strongest match for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkened.
A tightly focused, streamlined turn-based roguelike RPG you can finish in 2–3 hours. Challenge the short but razor-sharp journey to slay 8 corrupted queens.
LunaQuest
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
This is a medieval fantasy base game with enemies from the future trying to wipe out all of humanity. This is a Turned base JRPG with an Open world concept.
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Demon Lord Reincarnation
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Darkened.
Assemble a party, explore the dungeon, fight your way through hordes of monsters, and defeat the Demon Lord in this brutal dungeon crawler. Are you up to the challenge?
Infiltrating Roudille
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Ranked #6 for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
A retro-style JRPG dungeon crawler. Play as an elite knight and confront a perilous mission where success is the only option. Alone and deep in enemy territory, you must succeed at all costs.
The Nameless: Slay Dragon
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Ranked #7 for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
Sin Slayers: Reign of The 8th
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Ranked #8 for Darkened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
Seven Deadly Sins. Have you heard about the 8th? Delve into madness in Sin Slayers, a challenging RPG Roguelite where you decide how much sin to bear as you transform the world. Assemble a party of wicked adventurers, kill, and pillage to drive off a gluttonous nightmare in turn-based battles
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 with Darkened.
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 Darkened.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkened.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Darkened.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Demeo: PC Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
It’s dangerous to go alone! Grab your friends and assemble a party, because plumbing the depths of Demeo requires strategy, cunning, and teamwork. An award-winning cooperative tabletop adventure for up to four players.
Demon Lord Reincarnation
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Darkened.
Assemble a party, explore the dungeon, fight your way through hordes of monsters, and defeat the Demon Lord in this brutal dungeon crawler. Are you up to the challenge?
Sin Slayers: Reign of The 8th
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Darkened.
Seven Deadly Sins. Have you heard about the 8th? Delve into madness in Sin Slayers, a challenging RPG Roguelite where you decide how much sin to bear as you transform the world. Assemble a party of wicked adventurers, kill, and pillage to drive off a gluttonous nightmare in turn-based battles
Frequently asked about Darkened
- What games are most similar to Darkened?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Darkened are Tower of Darkness, Queen Slayer, LunaQuest.
- Who developed Darkened?
- Darkened was developed by Pirate Sloop.
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 Darkened.
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