Games like Grim Nights
If Grim Nights is your kind of game, the closest matches are Grim Realms, They Are Billions and MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, dark and grim. 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 Grim Nights: Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
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Grim Realms
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a grim mood with Grim Nights.
Top pick for Grim Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with Grim Nights.
Second-strongest match for Grim Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grim Nights.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Grim Nights.
Third-strongest match for Grim Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.
Zombie Defense Shelter
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Grim Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
You control an elite soldier of the future guarding the entrance of the shelter, which is besieged by crowds of zombies.
Idle Towers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Grim Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
An idle survival game with tower defense mechanics. Build your own perfect defese and face infinite waves of enemies!
Age of Darkness: Final Stand
WHY THIS
Shares tower defense and a challenging mood with Grim Nights.
Ranked #6 for Grim Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Grim Nights.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
Phoenix Hope
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Grim Nights.
Ranked #8 for Grim Nights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Grim Nights at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Grim Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Grim Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Grim Nights on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Grim Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Grim Nights on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Grim Nights.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Grim Nights on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Grim Nights on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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More from Edym Pixels
Other recommendable Steam games by Edym Pixels, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Grim Realms
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a grim mood with Grim Nights.
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Nights. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Break the Empire
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Grim Nights.
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Nights. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Fight your way to the capital and slay the emperor! Choose from a variety of characters with unique spells and skills! Featuring permadeath, interactable terrain, distinct builds, wild combos, and endless replayability.
Hollow Island
WHY THIS
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Nights. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters
WHY THIS
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Grim Nights.
You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.
Frequently asked about Grim Nights
- Does Grim Nights run on Steam Deck?
- Grim Nights is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Grim Nights cost?
- Grim Nights is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Grim Nights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Grim Nights are Grim Realms, They Are Billions, MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
- Who developed Grim Nights?
- Grim Nights was developed by Edym Pixels.
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 Grim Nights.
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