Free games like The Darkness
Below are 8 free-to-play Steam games similar to The Darkness, ranked by player overlap and content similarity. No purchase or Steam login required to view the list. Every pick is a full free-to-play title — not a demo, trial, or time-limited giveaway. imho.run's catalogue refreshes daily, so newly free or newly popular titles surface here without manual editing.
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Ranked picks
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The 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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Trick & Treat
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
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Tiny Bunny: Prologue
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Darkness.
Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkness.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
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Poppy Playtime
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkness.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
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Cry of Fear
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkness.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
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No More Room in Hell
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkness.
The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.
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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
Free-to-play alternative to The Darkness — no purchase or trial window. Shares Action and Indie with The Darkness.
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.