Games like Cold Dark
If Cold Dark is your kind of game, the closest matches are DarkRealms, Dino Trauma and Turbo Overkill — 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 Cold Dark: Cold Dark is a survival horror boomer shooter. Wake up in a deserted hospital with no memory of how you got there. Battle zombies and mutated horrors with your shotgun and chainsaw as you uncover the truth behind a deadly outbreak consuming the city.
Players who liked Cold Dark also play
Steam players who put hours into Cold Dark 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.
DarkRealms
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
A brutal 2.5D boomer shooter. Blast through demons and undead with shotguns, rockets, and a katana in fast-paced aerial combat. Dash through speedrun-focused levels packed with brutal bosses, aggressive movement, retro-inspired visuals, and heavy metal action.
Dino Trauma
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Dino Trauma introduces you to a secret laboratory somewhere in eastern Europe where gore and dinosaurs aren't unusual things. Retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Anger Foot
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Anger Foot is a lightning fast action FPS where the only things harder than your ass kicking feet are the ass kicking beats.
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing, jazz-fueled adventure in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930’s with the adrenaline and action of an explosive first person shooter.
Skibidi Toilet Hero
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Fast-Paced ULTRAKILL and DOOM like game where you are playing as the last Cameraman, who has to fight off the army of Skibidi Toilets using various weapons and cheerful music 🚽 (And little bit of pure brainrot)
Selaco
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Selaco is a brand new original shooter inspired by classics, featuring thrilling action set pieces, destructibility, smart enemies and a fleshed out story taking place within an immersive game world.
SPRAWL
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cold Dark fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
SPRAWL is a hardcore retro FPS set in an endless cyberpunk megalopolis. Escape the walled city and take on the militarized government of the sprawl. Fueled by the blood of your enemies and a mysterious voice in your head, make your way towards the spire to topple whatever lays within.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cold Dark.
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 and Indie with Cold Dark.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Hog Hunter 2021
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Hog hunter is a short atmospheric game about catching hogs out in the wild, be careful though not everything in the woods is safe...
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More from Nexus Media
Other recommendable Steam games by Nexus Media, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Z Diaries
WHY THIS
Another title from Nexus Media, the studio behind Cold Dark.
Z Diaries is an interactive zombie fiction game where you read daily diary entries. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. The objective is to escape from Portland before the bombs drop.
The Gate
WHY THIS
Another title from Nexus Media, the studio behind Cold Dark. Shares Indie with Cold Dark.
The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.
DarkRealms
WHY THIS
Another title from Nexus Media, the studio behind Cold Dark. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
A brutal 2.5D boomer shooter. Blast through demons and undead with shotguns, rockets, and a katana in fast-paced aerial combat. Dash through speedrun-focused levels packed with brutal bosses, aggressive movement, retro-inspired visuals, and heavy metal action.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dino Trauma
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Dino Trauma introduces you to a secret laboratory somewhere in eastern Europe where gore and dinosaurs aren't unusual things. Retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Anger Foot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Anger Foot is a lightning fast action FPS where the only things harder than your ass kicking feet are the ass kicking beats.
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing, jazz-fueled adventure in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930’s with the adrenaline and action of an explosive first person shooter.
Selaco
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cold Dark.
Selaco is a brand new original shooter inspired by classics, featuring thrilling action set pieces, destructibility, smart enemies and a fleshed out story taking place within an immersive game world.
Frequently asked about Cold Dark
- What games are most similar to Cold Dark?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cold Dark are DarkRealms, Dino Trauma, Turbo Overkill.
- Who developed Cold Dark?
- Cold Dark was developed by Nexus Media.
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 Cold Dark.
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