Games Like Dark Train

«Pnevmo-Capsula: Domiki». Atompunk world gone the way of the cumbersome automation of the USSR. In the form of a mechanical capsule, you will have to find a way out of the level, moving along the rails, solving quests and puzzles, overcoming houses, towers and platforms.

Why similar: Steampunk 61.6% ★, Dark 14.5%, Puzzle 8.1%, Sci-fi 6%, Adventure 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific steampunk aesthetic and mechanical puzzle-solving focus found in Dark Train.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Steampunk 63.6% ★, Sci-fi 12.3%, Puzzle 10.1%, Adventure 9.8%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This classic point-and-click adventure features a rich, mechanical steampunk world and intricate puzzles that mirror the tactile feel of Dark Train.

Mechanism - - an adventure game about a lonely robot. Dive into a depressive steampunk world which has been infected with a strange disease called "Phlegm".

Why similar: Steampunk 56.9% ★, Adventure 16%, Dark 10.4%, Indie 9.6%, Puzzle 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric adventure set in a world of robots and steampunk machinery that matches the tone of the seed game.

A Tale of Paper: Refolded is a puzzle-platformer that tells the story of Line, a magical character made of paper who can use origami to change its shape. Transform into a frog, a rocket, a bird and more as Line embarks on an emotional journey to fulfill the dream of its creator.

Why similar: Adventure 52.7%, Dark 26.5%, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The paper-craft aesthetic and puzzle-platforming mechanics provide a visual and gameplay experience very close to the seed game.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Steampunk 65.7% ★, Adventure 15.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the same feeling of a solitary, atmospheric journey through a desolate landscape while managing a complex vehicle.

Steamroll is an adventure and puzzle game with a touch of minigolf gameplay. Help the junior engineer escape a collapsing mine by solving puzzles and shooting steamballs from your vehicle to create ramps, walls, activate triggers, blow things away, and more. Can you handle the pressure?

Why similar: Steampunk 53.1% ★, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 15.1%, Puzzle 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed puzzle game that focuses on mechanical manipulation and environmental navigation.

Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 43.4%, Puzzle 31.6%, Indie 25%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a world made entirely of paper, this game features beautiful pop-up book mechanics that resonate with the artistic style of Dark Train.

Steamburg is an award-winning puzzle adventure game with story exploration elements and unique gameplay. Professor Vincent Moore fights a robot invasion. He is unarmed so he must be really smart. After destroying robots he can explore locations to find and rescue his fiancée.

Why similar: Steampunk 59.1% ★, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 11.7%, Puzzle 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric puzzle game leans heavily into the steampunk aesthetic with a focus on strategic mechanical movement.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Steampunk 76.6% ★, Dark 10.7%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep, dark, and atmospheric steampunk narrative set in a mysterious, exploration-heavy universe.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Adventure 48.2%, Indie 32.6%, Sci-fi 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, post-apocalyptic game that centers on a train journey, sharing the thematic focus on rail travel and survival.

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Why similar: Puzzle 44.1%, Adventure 39.2%, Indie 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal, mechanical puzzle game offers a similar sense of wonder and intricate, non-verbal storytelling.

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

Why similar: Puzzle 42.8%, Adventure 39.8%, Indie 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by Amanita Design, this game features a dark, atmospheric world filled with mechanical puzzles and a unique, hand-drawn aesthetic.

What happens when you try navigate a foreign subway system with only a piece of paper on you without being able to understand the signs?

Why similar: Adventure 59.5%, Puzzle 28.7%, Indie 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-focused adventure that utilizes a train setting to deliver atmospheric, exploration-based gameplay.

An atmospheric vehicle adventure that follows the emotional journey of a boy and his ship as he embarks on a voyage to find a new home.

Why similar: Adventure 53.6%, Puzzle 40.2%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spiritual successor to Lone Sails, it continues the theme of atmospheric, vehicle-based exploration in a mysterious world.

Unburied secrets burn like wild steam – nothing is what it appears!

Why similar: Steampunk 75.6% ★, Adventure 15.6%, Puzzle 7%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed adventure that emphasizes investigation and mechanical puzzles within a dark, industrial setting.

An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.

Why similar: Adventure 47.1%, Puzzle 33.7%, Indie 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal experience features a world made of paper-like textures and physics-based puzzles that feel deeply connected to the seed game's visual identity.

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!

Why similar: Steampunk 89.5% ★, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven game captures the dark, Victorian-inspired steampunk atmosphere of the seed game perfectly.

Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.

Why similar: Steampunk 68.9% ★, Dark 17.7%, Indie 7.1%, Adventure 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a dark, exploration-heavy RPG experience with a strong focus on lore and atmospheric travel.

Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.

Why similar: Adventure 52.5%, Puzzle 47.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more organic in theme, its tactile, puzzle-heavy approach to exploration is a perfect match for fans of the seed game's design philosophy.

Conductor is a action-adventure, puzzle game. Take control of a locomotive and clear anything that stands in your way. Solve puzzles by using tools and wit. Defend yourself from the forces of Overcorp.

Why similar: Adventure 72.3%, Puzzle 27.7%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused adventure that puts you in control of a train, emphasizing mechanical interaction and puzzle-solving.

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Why similar: Puzzle 55.5%, Adventure 23.1%, Indie 21.4%

Why You'll Like It: An intricately designed puzzle game that uses artistic, layered storytelling to create a unique and atmospheric experience.

Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

Why similar: Puzzle 100%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle game that uses a train-routing mechanic as its primary gameplay loop.

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 52%, Puzzle 41.5%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The tactile nature of the protagonist and the focus on environmental puzzles provide a similar sense of physical presence in a strange world.

Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Why similar: Dark 41.8%, Adventure 24.5%, Puzzle 18.6%, Indie 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: This dark, atmospheric puzzle-platformer shares the wordless, mysterious storytelling style found in Dark Train.

Board the train! Run away from a weirdo! Solve some puzzles! Make friends with some ghosts! Try not to become a ghost yourself!

Why similar: Puzzle 51.1%, Adventure 48.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, atmospheric horror game set on a train that shares the dark, dreamlike quality of the seed game.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Steampunk 67.6% ★, Puzzle 14%, Indie 10%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-inspired puzzle-platformer that focuses on electromagnetic mechanics and environmental exploration.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Dark 41.5%, Puzzle 21.6%, Indie 19.1%, Adventure 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal dark, atmospheric puzzle-platformer that shares the monochromatic, mysterious tone of the seed game.

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Dark 41%, Adventure 29.3%, Puzzle 18.8%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric puzzle-platformer that focuses on navigating a strange, industrial-feeling world.

Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.

Why similar: Adventure 48.2%, Indie 30.6%, Dark 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy adventure that uses the train as a central metaphor for a mysterious and dark journey.

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Dark 35.9%, Puzzle 24.9%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, dark point-and-click adventure that excels at creating an unsettling and atmospheric world.

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.

Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Dark 36.3%, Puzzle 26.9%

The train is the only escape.

Why similar: Adventure 58.3%, Indie 41.7%

A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this mystery adventure game!

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Adventure 77.5%, Indie 22.5%

Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.

Why similar: Dark 58.2%, Adventure 28.1%, Indie 13.7%

Tiny Rails is a relaxing train management adventure. Travel across an immersive and meticulously crafted pixel world. Collect hundreds of beautiful cars, each with their own set of stats, to create your own unique multi-car masterpiece!

Why similar: Adventure 62.3%, Indie 37.7%

A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!

Why similar: Dark 50.9%, Puzzle 26.9%, Indie 22.1%

It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Adventure 43.4%, Dark 38.3%, Indie 18.3%

It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.

Why similar: Adventure 53.1%, Puzzle 46.9%

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

Why similar: Dark 60%, Adventure 25.4%, Indie 14.6%

Anant Express is set aboard a haunted sleeper-class indian train. You board the train as an ordinary traveler, but as the journey progresses, strange events begin to unfold. Mysterious passengers. Shifting compartments. Whispers in the dark. Nothing is as it seems.

Why similar: Indie 55.2%, Adventure 44.8%

"Edge of Twilight - Return to Glory" is a 3rd person action adventure game presenting a unique post-apocalyptic, Steampunk fantasy world that has been split into separate realms of Day and Night.

Why similar: Adventure 65.3%, Indie 34.7%

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Why similar: Puzzle 43.8%, Indie 29.1%, Dark 27.1%

The Cars vs Train is a simulation-adventure game, where horsepower is measured to another level. Your mission is not to allow the train to reach its destination before you in order to prevent danger.

Why similar: Adventure 85.2%, Indie 14.8%

A first-person adventure game with a storyline. You are about to travel on a passenger train along the Trans-Siberian Railway. You can walk around cities, ride a train and watch nature change, talk to passengers and much more.

Why similar: Adventure 76.8%, Indie 23.2%

Join the adventure and become the master of the metro in our game, which takes you into the underground world. Overcome challenges on the tracks from the cabin of a historic train. Can you complete the route, transport all passengers, and avoid delays?

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.

Why similar: Steampunk 60.2% ★, Adventure 19%, Puzzle 14.6%, Indie 6.2%

Brassheart is an adventure game set in the alternative 1920s, inspired by dieselpunk and the classics of the genre. In this world, you play as Pola, a spunky pilot. She follows the clues that may provide a way to save her father kidnapped by his own invention, a rebellious supermachine, Valkiria.

Why similar: Steampunk 60% ★, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 11.9%, Puzzle 6%

The Ghost Train | 幽霊列車 is a psychological train horror game.

In this exciting Card Building Roguelike game you create your cards from scratch adding different upgrades. Build your train, explore the Labyrinth and survive. Discover infinite synergies. How far will you go?

Why similar: Dark 76.2%, Adventure 23.8%

A teenager who has lost her sight and a mysterious cat team up in a surreal fantasy adventure into the unexpected, weaving a tale that brings together some of the world’s greatest minds: Monet, Tesla, Edison and other historical cultural icons.

Why similar: Steampunk 55.3% ★, Adventure 15.3%, Dark 12.8%, Indie 8.9%, Puzzle 7.8%

A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.7%, Adventure 46.3%

All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!

Why similar: Puzzle 100%

Your spaceship crashes, and you find yourself in a dark town that looks just like any other, but that has something different about it. Its people go about their daily lives as if nothing was off, even though the sky above their heads is always black.

Why similar: Adventure 66.3%, Puzzle 33.7%

The Dream Machine is an award-winning point & click adventure game about exploring other people's dreams. It's built by hand using materials such as clay, cardboard and broccoli.

Why similar: Dark 33.6%, Adventure 24.7%, Sci-fi 22.5%, Puzzle 19.2%

In the barren wasteland on the brink of extinction, the last Train departs, supposedly carrying its passengers in search of a place where they can survive. A creature named Eilf boards the Train, determined to travel to Spring - the station that has been said to have vanished.

Why similar: Adventure 65.4%, Indie 34.6%

A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Why similar: Steampunk 58.4% ★, Sci-fi 15%, Adventure 10.4%, Puzzle 8.8%, Indie 7.4%

Dive into a surreal ocean abyss in an atmospheric puzzle-adventure. Explore dangerous waters, possess sea creatures and solve environmental puzzles to discover what lies deep below the surface…

Why similar: Dark 39.6%, Adventure 25.6%, Puzzle 21.8%, Indie 13%

The Derailed is a first-person psychological horror game. Beneath the dusty arches of a nearly forgotten depot, shadows of the past tremble. Whether you want to or not, you will have to uncover the dark secrets of this place.

Why similar: Dark 52.6%, Adventure 35.3%, Indie 12.1%

Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!

Why similar: Adventure 100%