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Games like The Long Dark

Hinterland Studio Inc. · 2017 · 90 % positive of 112,575

24 games that play like The Long Dark and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Winter Survival, Northern Lights and Don't Starve.

Player tags

  • Survival
  • Open World Survival Craft
  • Open World
  • Exploration
  • Atmospheric
  • Singleplayer
  • First-Person
  • Adventure

At a glance

What games like The Long Dark have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Long Dark: Survival (24 of 24), Open World (21) and Open World Survival Craft (12).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2025, 16 of them after The Long Dark (2017).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Don't Starve (96 % positive of 109,816).
  • Winter Survival and DESOLATE both play and look like The Long Dark.

By gameplay

Plays like The Long Dark

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

More matches

  1. Erzurum40 % positive of 4,735Shared: Survival · Open World · Exploration
  2. Darkout48 % positive of 868Shared: Survival · Crafting · Sandbox
  3. Expedition Zero60 % positive of 183Shared: Survival · Open World · Exploration
  4. DayZ76 % positive of 430,252Shared: Survival · Open World · First-Person
  5. The Last Plague: Blight90 % positive of 923Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Sandbox
  6. Starsand66 % positive of 1,157Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
  7. Green Hell85 % positive of 80,604Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
  8. Mist Survival76 % positive of 13,456Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
  9. Don't Starve Together95 % positive of 499,061Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World
  10. DESOLATE66 % positive of 7,881Shared: Survival · Open World · First-Person
  11. Near Death91 % positive of 1,026Shared: Survival · Open World · Exploration
  12. Radiation Island80 % positive of 608Shared: Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Open World

By look

Looks like The Long Dark

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

More matches

  1. Setteeh76 % positive of 293
  2. Blair Witch VR67 % positive of 196
  3. Scorch82 % positive of 314
  4. Мухосранск | Russian City Sim72 % positive of 244
  5. Lex Mortis45 % positive of 157
  6. Wild West Legacy36 % positive of 1,983
  7. Gone: Survival42 % positive of 235
  8. Frigore61 % positive of 287
  9. Another Try 249 % positive of 663
  10. The Cursed Forest89 % positive of 836
  11. The Paperman69 % positive of 312
  12. Skinwalker Hunt91 % positive of 796

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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