Games like Dark Places
If Dark Places is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hatchpunk, Gun Rage and DOOMED — 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 Places: Dark Places is a psychological single-player game set in a surreal world filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. Solve puzzles and try to survive.
Players who liked Dark Places also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Places 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.
Hatchpunk
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Hatchpunk is a retro first person shooter with unique visual style. You have a gun in one hand and a chainsaw in other hand. So come out and face the hordes of monsters that have invaded Earth. Use grapple hook for efficient movement. Kill enemies in close combat with chainsaw to regain your health.
Gun Rage
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Gun Rage is an old-school, fast-paced, side-scrolling run and gun, with 16-bit era graphics, inspired by greatest classic games of the genre.
DOOMED
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
DOOMED is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.
Dementium: The Ward
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
PAPERHEAD EP.0
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
In this cute cardboard world, something went horribly wrong... You wake up in a prison cell. A strange voice calls to you from the depths of dark corridors covered in runic symbols and blood. Reload your trusty shotgun and find out... WHY WOULD CARDBOARD... BLEED?
Blood: One Unit Whole Blood
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Places.
You carved your soul to shreds in servitude to a dark god, but false promises and betrayal were your only reward. Now you have a score to settle and it will be measured in blood! Experience the madness in one carnage-soaked package! All the gore, all the unholy war! Zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds and blood-crazed hordes of horrors await!
Haunted Lands
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer. Uncover secrets, acquire powerful artifacts, and face challenging bosses in the Haunted Lands.
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dark Places fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Places.
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Places at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
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 Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Places.
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 Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Places.
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 Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dark Places.
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 Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Dark Places.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Places.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Places.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dark Places on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Places.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
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 Dark Places.
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 Action and Adventure with Dark Places.
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 Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Places.
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 Simulation with Dark Places.
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 Action and Indie with Dark Places.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Places.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dementium: The Ward
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Classic DS horror reborn. Awaken in an abandoned hospital with no memory, no escape and unspeakable horrors lurking in the dark. The horror classic Dementium: The Ward returns, enhanced for 4K display and Steam Deck Verified, where every shadow hides a new threat, and every corridor a new nightmare.
Haunted Lands
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Places.
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer. Uncover secrets, acquire powerful artifacts, and face challenging bosses in the Haunted Lands.
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Places.
What you are about to do has not been approved by the Vatican. As a young priest, struggle against demons, cultists, and your own weakening faith in this pixel horror game inspired by the era of classic 8-bit gaming and the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s.
Frequently asked about Dark Places
- How much does Dark Places cost?
- Dark Places is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Places?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Places are Hatchpunk, Gun Rage, DOOMED.
- Who developed Dark Places?
- Dark Places was developed by Madbox Entertainment.
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 Places.
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