CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.
96% of 2,958 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Games like Darkward
If Darkward left you wanting something dark and atmospheric, you have options. These games are worth a look next.
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone. Guard travellers, talk your way past suspicion, investigate what happened to your predecessor, and decide who deserves your help. Choices shape a grim fantasy world across a 30-hour campaign with multiple endings.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
94% of 4,539 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$2.74A Dark Room ®
Critically acclaimed, minimalist text-based rpg. Come light the fire.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
91% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
A dark point & click adventure through a nightmarish world of hand-painted castles, monsters and moral choices. You wake in a cage with no memory, solve puzzles to escape, and decide who lives and who doesn't. The art alone is worth the trip.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
93% of 2,562 Steam reviews are positive$11.99The Secret of Darkwoods
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a non-linear standalone adventure with side quests in a vast world.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
89% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThis Book Is A Dungeon
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
78% of 195 Steam reviews are positive$4.99CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
A tiny mute sorcerer who speaks only in conjured cards, hired to rid a four-armed old woman's forest house of a ghost. A short, spooky-cozy mystery in a PS1-style fable world, with secrets buried far deeper than the main story lets on.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
96% of 2,958 Steam reviews are positive$4.99NOX AETERNA - Veil of Darkness
He’s been searching for his missing friend for days. She’s been searching for her long-lost clan member for decades. Now their paths cross.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positiveFreeWelcome To The Dark Place
The train is the only escape.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
88% of 638 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1FreeDark Scavenger
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Surreal
89% of 153 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Ember Seeker
An atmospheric exploration game set in a Dark Fantasy world. Explore the ruins of an ancient civilisation and uncover it's forgotten past through a short nonlinear story with timeless retro graphics.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
91% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$7.99The Darkest Dusk
Classic Point-and-Click Adventure Game to experience the feeling from the 80's and 90's | Tech-Noir | Pixel Art and Retro Style | Interactive visual novel
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFreeBlackout: The Darkest Night
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Dark, Atmospheric, Mysterious
82% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Hidden gems like Darkward
Ember Seeker
An atmospheric exploration game set in a Dark Fantasy world.
91% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Welcome To The Dark Place
The train is the only escape.
88% of 638 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
BLACKSHARD
BLACKSHARD is a first-person exploration game. Wander through a strange megastructure, the Labyrinth, to unravel its mysteries...
91% of 449 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Eclipsium
Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.
91% of 3,497 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$12.99
Dread Delusion
Wander strange floating continents, talk or fight your way past danger, and let your choices change a cursed land.
90% of 5,021 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$19.99
The Secret of Darkwoods
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a…
89% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery.
94% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$27.99
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.
94% of 4,539 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$2.74
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
A masked ball on a moving train, where four strangers take turns telling how they got aboard.
96% of 2,885 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Grim Quest - Old School RPG
A dark fantasy RPG blending dungeon crawling, turn-based combat and roguelike mechanics with hand-drawn art and written storytelling.
91% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Newest games like Darkward
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 158 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Dark Hollow RPG
Descend into an ever-changing dungeon, battle monsters, unlock dozens of achievements, and shape your legend in a fully text-based RPG inspired by…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.
85% of 240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
Ember Seeker
An atmospheric exploration game set in a Dark Fantasy world.
91% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Solitary Existence of a Little Universe
In this dark interactive novel you will play as a lost soul wandering a forsaken desert, accompanied by a mysterious girl.
69% of 29 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Upstairs
A short classic point-and-click adventure with a verb-based interface and dialogue choices, where you explore a strange building, meet unsettling…
92% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Coldwake
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure.
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Welcome To The Dark Place
The train is the only escape.
88% of 638 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.
96% of 2,958 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Eclipsium
Follow a pale light through tombs and cathedrals of flesh, piecing together the memory of Her in a sunless world.
91% of 3,497 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$12.99
Contra Spem Spero
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out.
95% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Darkest Dusk
Classic Point-and-Click Adventure Game to experience the feeling from the 80's and 90's | Tech-Noir | Pixel Art and Retro Style | Interactive visual…
96% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFree