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Games like Dark Sauce

If Dark Sauce is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ballistic, Snake Pass and EDGE — 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.

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About Dark Sauce: Take gold from the dragon, and not become a barbecue. Colorful cubic platformer about pig and dragon

2019IndieAdventure19.99 USDWindowsby Artalasky
Dark Sauce — Steam game cover

Players who liked Dark Sauce also play

Steam players who put hours into Dark Sauce 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.

  1. Ballistic

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Launch yourself like a bullet through 33 levels of intense physics-based combat and brutal platforming challenges in this unique and violent arcade-style adventure.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Snake Pass

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Slither, coil and climb your way to the top of Haven Tor in this one of a kind physics based, puzzle platform adventure from award winning independent studio Sumo Digital!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. EDGE

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dark Sauce.

    EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!

    2011ActionIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Toren

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Experience the mysterious, timeless world of Toren, the first adventure game from Brazilian indie developer Swordtales. You are Moonchild, destined to climb the tower (known as Toren) on a hauntingly solitary journey to find your purpose.

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Impulsion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Dark Sauce.

    Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!

    2018ActionIndie12.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Road to Ballhalla

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Way

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Fly'N

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dark Sauce fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Somewhere between a platformer, a puzzle game and a great big dollop of pure fun, Fly’N will challenge your skills through more than forty levels set in a luxuriant world. Experiment with the four Buds to save the World-Trees from Dyer, the loony hair-dryer who intends to destroy their Helys!

    2012ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Sauce at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Sauce.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Sauce.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Sauce.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Sauce.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Dark Sauce on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Sauce.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Dark Sauce.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Samorost 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

    2021IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. DOGWALK

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Sauce.

    Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

    2025IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Trick & Treat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    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.

    2016IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Artalasky

Other recommendable Steam games by Artalasky, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Pukan Bye Bye

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Artalasky, the studio behind Dark Sauce. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Created to enrage.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Purple Heart

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Artalasky, the studio behind Dark Sauce. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Hardcore pixel indie platformer with puzzle elements and history. Can you get to the end?

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Zero Symptom

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Artalasky, the studio behind Dark Sauce. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    The Covid vaccine has turned some of the population into monsters. Will you be able to stop the zombie apocalypse and create a new vaccine, or will you turn to the dark side in this first-person horror shooter with consequences for your choices.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Snake Pass

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Slither, coil and climb your way to the top of Haven Tor in this one of a kind physics based, puzzle platform adventure from award winning independent studio Sumo Digital!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Toren

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Experience the mysterious, timeless world of Toren, the first adventure game from Brazilian indie developer Swordtales. You are Moonchild, destined to climb the tower (known as Toren) on a hauntingly solitary journey to find your purpose.

    2015IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Road to Ballhalla

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dark Sauce.

    Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!

    2016ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dark Sauce

How much does Dark Sauce cost?
Dark Sauce is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Dark Sauce?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Sauce are Ballistic, Snake Pass, EDGE.
Who developed Dark Sauce?
Dark Sauce was developed by Artalasky.

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 Sauce.

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