Games like The Inner Darkness
If The Inner Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Strange Hotel, ASTRAL and Lasagna Boy — 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 The Inner Darkness: A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.
Players who liked The Inner Darkness also play
Steam players who put hours into The Inner Darkness 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.
A Strange Hotel
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Inner Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Inner Darkness.
Find clever solutions to the physics based puzzles of A Strange Hotel. In this short but sweet puzzle platformer you have to find solutions to simple and complex puzzles while using your vacuum to grab physics objects.
ASTRAL
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Inner Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
The future came. You'd think that means the apex of the progress and science, but no. After the epidemic spread all over the world in 2022, 95% of the whole population mutated into horrible creatures without any moral values or humanity and started hunting everything that moves. The planet became empty.
Lasagna Boy
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Inner Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
An adventure horror game with a Gameboy aesthetic. Lasagna boy brings a mix of puzzle, adventure, and platforming along with some minor shooting elements, all packaged together in a charming yet haunting pixel art style.
Selma and the Wisp
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Inner Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
Selma and the Wisp is an astonishing platform game with a particularly eerie feel to it. Densely packed with logical puzzles and unexpected obstacles, the game incorporates innovative gameplay, low-poly models and an spectacular animations.
Monochroma
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Inner Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
Timewinder
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Inner Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
TIMEWINDER is a 2D platformer with puzzle and precision elements. Run, jump, dash and travel in time to brave the obstacles and continue on your journey, but be careful not to break the timeline continuity!
The Explorer of Night
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Inner Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
The explorer of night is an minimalist platformer, where you need to help the main character to get out of the forest, inhabited by unfriendly enemies and dangerous traps.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Inner Darkness at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
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 ~60% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
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 ~70% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
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 ~80% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Inner Darkness.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Inner Darkness.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Inner Darkness.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Inner Darkness.
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 ~60% under The Inner Darkness on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
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?
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 and Casual with The Inner Darkness.
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 The Inner Darkness.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Inner Darkness.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Inner Darkness.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Inner Darkness.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Inner Darkness.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 The Inner Darkness.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Nauris Amatnieks, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Moustache Mountain
WHY THIS
Another title from Nauris Amatnieks, the studio behind The Inner Darkness. Shares Indie and Casual with The Inner Darkness.
A young moustache enthusiast goes on an adventure, to climb the highest flying mountain in search of a magical moustache gel!
There Was A Caveman
WHY THIS
Another title from Nauris Amatnieks, the studio behind The Inner Darkness. Shares Indie with The Inner Darkness.
There Was A Caveman is a prehistoric themed, retro styled, action platformer. With challenging gameplay that will keep you on your toes. Get ready to die and die a lot.
Bacon Rebellion
WHY THIS
Another title from Nauris Amatnieks, the studio behind The Inner Darkness. Shares Indie and Casual with The Inner Darkness.
Do you ever want to just relax and slaughter something? Well, lucky for you, the pigs have gone mad! They are destroying everything! So grab your trusty double-barreled friend and put an end to this Bacon Rebellion!
Frequently asked about The Inner Darkness
- How much does The Inner Darkness cost?
- The Inner Darkness is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Inner Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Inner Darkness are A Strange Hotel, ASTRAL, Lasagna Boy.
- Who developed The Inner Darkness?
- The Inner Darkness was developed by Nauris Amatnieks.
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 The Inner Darkness.
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