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popeyed inc · 2025 · Windows

Steam: 80 % positive of 160 reviews, as of Oct 28

Explore a survival-roguelike RPG set in an unknown and bizarre world. To withstand its many dangers, you'll need to gain new knowledge, scavenge for food, and acquire useful items. Craft, build, and learn your way through a crucial adventure to uncover the world's secrets.

24 games that play like The wild darkness and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Don't Starve, Muck and Mirklurk: Every Step Matters.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Rogue-like
  • RPG
  • Survival
  • Casual
  • Rogue-lite
  • Base-Building
  • Dungeon Crawler
Map region: Survival & Crafting
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Best matches

Plays and looks like The wild darkness

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

By gameplay

Plays like The wild darkness

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

More matches

  1. UnReal World92 % positive of 1,237Shared: Rogue-like · RPG · Survival
  2. DYSMANTLE90 % positive of 11,073Shared: RPG · Survival · Base-Building
  3. The Enchanted Cave 289 % positive of 746Shared: Rogue-like · RPG · Rogue-lite
  4. OneBit Adventure87 % positive of 750Shared: Rogue-like · RPG · Rogue-lite
  5. UnderMine90 % positive of 9,310Shared: Rogue-like · RPG · Rogue-lite
  6. Orion Sandbox Enhanced93 % positive of 1,216Shared: RPG · Survival · Adventure
  7. Beyond the Map77 % positive of 784Shared: RPG · Survival · Base-Building
  8. Dawnfolk94 % positive of 671Shared: Rogue-like · Survival · Rogue-lite
  9. Dungeons of Dredmor93 % positive of 3,709Shared: Rogue-like · RPG · Dungeon Crawler
  10. It Lurks Below80 % positive of 1,171Shared: RPG · Survival · Dungeon Crawler
  11. Spark in the Dark86 % positive of 1,244
  12. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead85 % positive of 542Shared: Rogue-like · RPG · Survival

By look

Looks like The wild darkness

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

More matches

  1. Pocket Rogues89 % positive of 585
  2. Lost Castle 277 % positive of 11,127
  3. Border Town76 % positive of 256
  4. Border Pioneer85 % positive of 1,691
  5. Monster Slayers78 % positive of 812
  6. Murim Survival75 % positive of 270
  7. Blightstone69 % positive of 542
  8. Crashlands89 % positive of 5,569
  9. Waven78 % positive of 5,123
  10. Alina of the Arena90 % positive of 3,588
  11. Hero Tale67 % positive of 424
  12. Reverse Crawl89 % positive of 383

At a glance

What games like The wild darkness have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The wild darkness: RPG (20 of 24), Rogue-like (17) and Survival (15).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2026, 2 of them after The wild darkness (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Don't Starve (95 % positive of 97,247).

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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