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Retrofiction Games · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 86 % positive of 210 reviews, as of Oct 28

Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.

24 games that play like Dead of Darkness and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Darkwood, Alone in the Dark and Silver Pines.

Player tags

  • Survival Horror
  • Horror
  • Story Rich
  • Atmospheric
  • Action-Adventure
  • Psychological Horror
  • Lovecraftian
  • Pixel Graphics
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Dead of Darkness

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

By gameplay

Plays like Dead of Darkness

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

More matches

  1. Lamentum86 % positive of 692Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  2. Enigma of Fear95 % positive of 3,122Shared: Survival Horror · Story Rich · Psychological Horror
  3. Evil Tonight87 % positive of 502Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  4. House94 % positive of 2,055Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Pixel Graphics
  5. Call of Cthulhu®77 % positive of 11,040Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  6. The Beast Inside83 % positive of 10,573Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  7. MADiSON87 % positive of 3,062Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  8. Tormented Souls89 % positive of 6,213Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Story Rich
  9. Unspoken88 % positive of 789Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Action-Adventure
  10. Dark Echo91 % positive of 920Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark
  11. You Will Die Here Tonight90 % positive of 601Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Action-Adventure
  12. DYSTHANASIA88 % positive of 345Shared: Survival Horror · Horror · Psychological Horror

By look

Looks like Dead of Darkness

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

More matches

  1. Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening96 % positive of 188
  2. The Last Door - Collector's Edition95 % positive of 1,868
  3. 2Dark82 % positive of 545
  4. Deep Sleep Trilogy97 % positive of 844
  5. Viviette88 % positive of 485
  6. Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition94 % positive of 8,076
  7. Decarnation86 % positive of 1,002
  8. Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut85 % positive of 734
  9. Midnight Scenes: The Nanny96 % positive of 224
  10. Newfound Courage93 % positive of 307
  11. Corpse Party88 % positive of 1,275
  12. Immortal Mantis93 % positive of 227

At a glance

What games like Dead of Darkness have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Dead of Darkness: Horror (22 of 24), Survival Horror (19) and Story Rich (15).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, 2 of them after Dead of Darkness (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: INSIDE (97 % positive of 70,240).

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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