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Piece of Cake studios · 2024 · Windows

Steam: 87 % positive of 6,322 reviews, as of Oct 28

Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

24 games that play like Dark Hours: Prologue and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Dark Hours, Dead by Daylight and Escape the Backrooms.

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Multiplayer
  • Online Co-Op
  • Survival Horror
  • Funny
  • Team-Based
  • Psychological Horror
  • Exploration
Map region: Co-op Horror
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Steam reviews

What players say

Players mostly enjoy it as a free co-op scare game with friends, though many say it is short and offers little beyond one map.

Most players recommend the free prologue, and Steam's totals are very positive. Many players say it is most fun in co-op: chaotic moments, shoving and tricking teammates, proximity voice chat and monsters that catch people out. Some praise the atmosphere and sound design for keeping them on edge, and some call the visuals good. Common complaints are that there is only one map and little replayability, that the monsters can be easy to dodge or predictable, and that the prologue feels thin. Some players report lag, freezes and long loading times on their hardware. A few reviewers dislike the practice of splitting a game into separate free prologue store pages. Reviews from the last year are similar, and the early and long-time players below are not discussed in detail here.

Praised

  • Co-op chaos with friends

    Players enjoy teaming up, shoving, tricking teammates and the funny moments that come from voice chat.

    Many players
  • Tense atmosphere and sound

    Dark mood, unsettling sound design and jump scares keep players on edge.

    Some players
  • Good value as a free game

    Players call it a worthwhile free experience and a cheap way to try the full game with friends.

    Some players

Criticised

  • Only one map, little replay value

    Players say the prologue has a single map and content is thin, so it is over quickly.

    Some players
  • Monsters are predictable or easy

    Players find the ghost and other monsters easy to dodge or too slow, and want more threatening enemies.

    Some players
  • Performance and technical problems

    Lag, freezes and very long loading times are reported, and some struggle to run it.

    Some players
Who it suits
Players who want a free, short co-op horror game to play with two or more friends, or to try before buying the full version.
Who should skip it
Players who want a long single-player horror game or much content, since it is short and has only one map.

Summarised by AI from 80 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.

Best matches

Plays and looks like Dark Hours: Prologue

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Dark Hours: Prologue

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

More matches

  1. Ghost Watchers86 % positive of 12,744Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror
  2. Species: Unknown94 % positive of 9,904
  3. Cry of Fear87 % positive of 88,449Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror
  4. Somewhere in the Shadow79 % positive of 578Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror
  5. Zort90 % positive of 11,832Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Team-Based
  6. Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together90 % positive of 1,904Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · Psychological Horror
  7. Damned70 % positive of 3,841Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror
  8. Propnight64 % positive of 20,087Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror
  9. FOREWARNED90 % positive of 5,054Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror
  10. Ghost Exile88 % positive of 3,729Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Team-Based
  11. Inside the Backrooms80 % positive of 38,860Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror
  12. Spectral Scream77 % positive of 658Shared: Horror · Online Co-Op · Survival Horror

By look

Looks like Dark Hours: Prologue

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

More matches

  1. Airtight City 密闭之城1.095 % positive of 392
  2. Crime Simulator82 % positive of 6,496
  3. PANICORE77 % positive of 10,813
  4. Thief Simulator 2: Prologue83 % positive of 1,724
  5. Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel82 % positive of 1,582
  6. The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication92 % positive of 2,557
  7. Ghost Watchers86 % positive of 12,744
  8. Tormented Souls 288 % positive of 1,745
  9. Dead Frontier 268 % positive of 28,528
  10. Invokyr93 % positive of 1,218
  11. Deceit 257 % positive of 6,935
  12. Them and Us75 % positive of 1,226

At a glance

What games like Dark Hours: Prologue have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Dark Hours: Prologue: Horror (23 of 24), Online Co-Op (21) and Survival Horror (19).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 6 of them after Dark Hours: Prologue (2024).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Species: Unknown (94 % positive of 9,904).

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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