Games like Howlville: The Dark Past
If Howlville: The Dark Past is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal, Nocturnal Relics and Hidden Expedition: A King's Line Collector's Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its artwork enhances immersion, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Howlville: The Dark Past: Many years ago an artifact was found in one of the mines near the small town of Howlville. The government asked scientists to examine it. Dr. Joseph was one of those scientists. Strange events began to happen in the underground lab, and something went wrong, causing a strong earthquake.
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Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Top pick for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Anna goes to the places of her childhood. She hopes to get cured from strange disease. This is the last chance to find out the cause of her misery. Whether she ever recover and at what price?
Nocturnal Relics
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
In Nocturnal relics you play as May who is trying to escape a monster while trying to get out of a museum. Is the monster in her head or did she release an ancient evil into the world?
Hidden Expedition: A King's Line Collector's Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
King Arthur’s Legend Comes Alive!
Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Standard Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Ranked #4 for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Haunted by mysterious curses from her orphanage days, Mary is finally forced to confront the truth behind her past. Step into the enchanted Netherworld—a realm where destiny is written in blood and every choice shapes her fate. An award-winning adventure blending mystery, emotion, and dark fantasy.
The House of Da Vinci 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Ranked #5 for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
The grand finale to The House of Da Vinci trilogy is here! Solve numerous new puzzles and mind benders and explore new mystifying locations of ravishing beauty.
Nephise Begins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Ranked #6 for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a wildly idiotic journey!
Hope Lake
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Ranked #8 for Howlville: The Dark Past fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
The Hope Lake Boarding School was abandoned long ago, when one of its teachers drowned by accident. Many years later, all of the female students began to disappear, one by one. Visit the place where it all began. Try to pick up the maniac's trail and put a stop to his crime spree.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Howlville: The Dark Past
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In the House of Silence
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Howlville: The Dark Past cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Howlville: The Dark Past.
In the House of Silence is a roguelike dungeon crawler RPG where your equipment is your own body parts. Mutate your body to fight otherworldly abominations as you delve deeper in the House of Silence.
Myths Of Orion: Books of Power
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Reviewers of Howlville: The Dark Past cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Use your sharp eye and brave heart to stop a dark wizard in Myths of Orion — a richly illustrated Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure.
Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Reviewers of Howlville: The Dark Past cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Anna goes to the places of her childhood. She hopes to get cured from strange disease. This is the last chance to find out the cause of her misery. Whether she ever recover and at what price?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Howlville: The Dark Past at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Howlville: The Dark Past on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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 Howlville: The Dark Past.
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 Howlville: The Dark Past.
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.
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 Howlville: The Dark Past.
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 Howlville: The Dark Past.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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More from N-Tri Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by N-Tri Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal
WHY THIS
Shares mini games and an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Another title from N-Tri Studio, the studio behind Howlville: The Dark Past. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Anna goes to the places of her childhood. She hopes to get cured from strange disease. This is the last chance to find out the cause of her misery. Whether she ever recover and at what price?
Ashley Clark: Secret of the Ruby
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Another title from N-Tri Studio, the studio behind Howlville: The Dark Past. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Detective Ashley Clark is puzzled by a series of mysterious kidnappings. The only connection between these unusual disappearances is a ruby pendant. Could someone be using this sparkling ornament to send a clandestine message, or could this be the handiwork of an underground cult?
Ashley Clark: The Secrets of the Ancient Temple
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Another title from N-Tri Studio, the studio behind Howlville: The Dark Past. Shares Indie and Adventure with Howlville: The Dark Past.
Detective Ashley Clark investigates a case in a provincial town. An accident happens in closed zoo. Zoo employee was killed by animal. At first glance - nothing unusual, but the heroine realizes that it was not an accident. Something very strange occur in zoo.
Frequently asked about Howlville: The Dark Past
- How much does Howlville: The Dark Past cost?
- Howlville: The Dark Past is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Howlville: The Dark Past?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Howlville: The Dark Past are Crossroad Mysteries: The Broken Deal, Nocturnal Relics, Hidden Expedition: A King's Line Collector's Edition.
- Who developed Howlville: The Dark Past?
- Howlville: The Dark Past was developed by N-Tri Studio.
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