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shoftArt · 2026 · Windows

Steam: 89 % positive of 211 reviews, as of Oct 28

You’re on duty at crossing #13. Keep an eye on the tracks, repair the sleepers, open the barriers for trains, cars, and people. Something in the woods is barking… and it’s calling you.

24 games that play like Barking from the Dark and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: From The Darkness, THE LAST TRAIN: Baquedano and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Psychological Horror
  • Story Rich
  • Adventure
  • Atmospheric
  • Dark
  • Retro
  • Psychological
Map region: Psychological HorrorRetro computer and terminal games
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Barking from the Dark

Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Barking from the Dark

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. IMSCARED94 % positive of 3,511Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  2. Welcome To The Dark Place88 % positive of 636Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Adventure
  3. Penumbra Overture89 % positive of 3,830Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  4. Dark Fracture: Prologue82 % positive of 1,382Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark
  5. Fingerbones78 % positive of 3,613Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark
  6. Psalm 287 % positive of 694Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  7. Oakwood86 % positive of 522Shared: Horror · Dark · Survival Horror
  8. Wick87 % positive of 505Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Survival Horror
  9. MADiSON87 % positive of 3,062Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  10. Luto85 % positive of 1,254Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  11. CASE: Animatronics81 % positive of 3,831Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
  12. Siren Head: Awakening72 % positive of 969Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark

By look

Looks like Barking from the Dark

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Dishwashing Simulator85 % positive of 514
  2. Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway86 % positive of 3,525
  3. The Deadseat96 % positive of 629
  4. Nightmare knock84 % positive of 296
  5. Jaden Williams' The Stalking Stairs87 % positive of 348
  6. Skinfreak85 % positive of 391
  7. Iron Blight92 % positive of 1,008
  8. September 7th86 % positive of 2,752
  9. Missing Hiker83 % positive of 3,786
  10. CASE 2: Animatronics Survival80 % positive of 3,157
  11. Ghost Exorcism INC.75 % positive of 4,265
  12. Project Silverfish92 % positive of 3,206

At a glance

What games like Barking from the Dark have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Barking from the Dark: Horror (24 of 24), Psychological Horror (23) and Story Rich (14).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, none of them after Barking from the Dark (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (95 % positive of 20,528).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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