Games like Dark Forest
If Dark Forest is your kind of game, the closest matches are ホロダンジョン 博衣こよりとホロウライブ in ホンシャタワー, Onychomp : Lush journey and Saucy Succubus — 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 Forest: Dark Forest is a retro turn-based dungeon crawler centered around family, kinship and tragedy. The game is set in an animal-centric world where creatures live together in small enclaves called 'clearings' in order to stay safe from the dangerous beasts of the ‘dark forests’ that surround the area.
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ホロダンジョン 博衣こよりとホロウライブ in ホンシャタワー
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Top pick for Dark Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
Wonderful maze “HoloDungeon” changes form with each challenge—within it lurks Hollow, beings not unlike Holomen. To rescue her snatched friends and make special Live a success, Hakui Koyori tries an unknown adventure! Roguelike RPG where you play using wisdom and brains remain even after down.
Onychomp : Lush journey
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Second-strongest match for Dark Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
Run, dig, howl, and devour in this real-time dungeon crawler where hunger and night chase you. Each night, a new mountain awaits. Can you reach the summit before dawn?
Saucy Succubus
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Third-strongest match for Dark Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
A cute BL game made for my OCs. The gameplay is simple: guide these two cuties through dessert mazes ~ ⚠️NO art theft / AI-feeding. Offenders inherit all my family's sickness and misery. ⚠️NO using my OCs as a素材库 (collage/mashup) or tracing AI art. Offenders owe my parents 10 years of your life.
Depths of Providence
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Ranked #5 for Dark Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
Depths of Providence is a turn-based roguelike JRPG through 100 procedurally generated floors. Your party enters at level 1 with empty pockets. Fight down through instant-death depths and escape with rare loot before you lose it all. Bank blue-chest relics forever and climb the daily leaderboard.
SALT SWEEPER
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Ranked #6 for Dark Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
SALT SWEEPER is a roguelite twist on minesweeper. Sweep corrupted desert mines, fight enemies in turn-based combat, and grow more powerful with weapons and spells you find along the way.
COLD HUSK
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Ranked #7 for Dark Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dark Forest.
A research station spans the Moon's surface, humanity's last monument to forbidden DNA experimentation. Read the final thoughts of deceased crew members, uncover a species-ending catastrophe, and navigate cold metallic corridors using only terminal commands. In COLD HUSK, knowledge is power.
IndieSteam ↗Dungeon Drafters
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Ranked #8 for Dark Forest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
Dungeon Drafters is a mystery dungeon adventure set in a world where magic is cards, and cards are magic. Explore ancient ruins, loot rare cards and employ clever combos to defeat your foes and build the legendary spell deck that could save the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dark Forest.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Forest.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about Dark Forest
- What games are most similar to Dark Forest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Forest are ホロダンジョン 博衣こよりとホロウライブ in ホンシャタワー, Onychomp : Lush journey, Saucy Succubus.
- Who developed Dark Forest?
- Dark Forest was developed by Kamegumi.
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 Dark Forest.
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