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Sirhaian · 2019 · 92 % positive of 8,314

24 games that play like When the Darkness comes and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Caligo, Depression The Game and From The Darkness.

Player tags

  • Psychological Horror
  • Free to Play
  • Walking Simulator
  • Indie
  • First-Person
  • Horror
  • Dynamic Narration
  • Narration

At a glance

What games like When the Darkness comes have in common

  • The tags they share most often with When the Darkness comes: Psychological Horror (22 of 24), Walking Simulator (21) and First-Person (18).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2025, 7 of them after When the Darkness comes (2019).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (94 % positive of 34,108).

By gameplay

Plays like When the Darkness comes

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

More matches

  1. Gone In November62 % positive of 395Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Indie
  2. Dark Fracture: Prologue84 % positive of 1,331Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  3. Locked Up77 % positive of 1,301Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  4. Homesick78 % positive of 1,393Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  5. Antihorror72 % positive of 221Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  6. Amnesia: The Dark Descent94 % positive of 34,108Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  7. The Room Syndrome94 % positive of 357Shared: Psychological Horror · Dark · Choices Matter
  8. Left Alone74 % positive of 642Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  9. Neverending Nightmares76 % positive of 2,916Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Horror
  10. Find Yourself85 % positive of 1,198Shared: Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · First-Person
  11. Magdalena42 % positive of 337Shared: Walking Simulator · Horror · Indie
  12. Hazy Mind87 % positive of 248Shared: Psychological Horror · Horror · Story Rich

By look

Looks like When the Darkness comes

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

More matches

  1. Matter90 % positive of 171
  2. The Indigo Parallel98 % positive of 225
  3. No Players Online83 % positive of 697
  4. Sensorium91 % positive of 224
  5. Bouncing Duck Simulator90 % positive of 207
  6. To The Core93 % positive of 4,678
  7. Fugue in Void66 % positive of 239
  8. Newton's Fourth Law95 % positive of 160
  9. Exertus85 % positive of 296
  10. Holodance85 % positive of 216
  11. Awkward Dimensions Redux80 % positive of 2,941
  12. A Wolf in Autumn73 % positive of 421

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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