Games like DARKLING
If DARKLING is your kind of game, the closest matches are LOOK AWAY, Primitive Shades and Horror Tale 2: Samantha — 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 DARKLING: DARKLING is a bite-sized first-person horror game. Locked inside a haunted house, use your wits to get out.
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Steam players who put hours into DARKLING 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.
Primitive Shades
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for DARKLING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
Explore an abandoned school, solve mysterious puzzles, and survive the strange shape-like monsters you accidentally unleash. What begins as a late-night urban exploration quickly turns into a chaotic fight to escape.
Horror Tale 2: Samantha
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for DARKLING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
Escape a terrifying prison, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the masked kidnapper. Continue the horror story of Tom and Samantha in this intense mystery escape adventure set in 1990s America.
The Room
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Ranked #4 for DARKLING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #5 for DARKLING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
Play With Me: Escape Room
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Ranked #6 for DARKLING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?
The Room Two
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for DARKLING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
Unique events transport you to the halls of a long-forgotten crypt. The only means of escape lies locked within a stone pedestal, along with a note from your mysterious ally. His words promise assistance, but only serve to entice you into a compelling world of mystery and exploration.
BEHIND THESE EYES: A Short Horror Story
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Ranked #8 for DARKLING fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
Behind These Eyes is a unique, exciting, and terrifying new horror game. Take control of protagonist Moribu, in his epic fight to overcome his penetrating fear, and save those he holds most dear.
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 DARKLING.
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 DARKLING.
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 DARKLING.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DARKLING.
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. Shares Indie with DARKLING.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about DARKLING
- What games are most similar to DARKLING?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DARKLING are LOOK AWAY, Primitive Shades, Horror Tale 2: Samantha.
- Who developed DARKLING?
- DARKLING was developed by SILI 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 DARKLING.
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