Games Like What the Dark Keeps

Dead Forest is a first person mystical thriller. The game take place in the protagonist’s dream. Every time the main hero has the same dream in which he sees a mysterious dark forest. But this time it's different ...

Why similar: Adventure 36.4%, Action 33%, Indie 30.7%

Jump, swim, and dash ahead to unlock your way out of the Third Nightmare: a lonely cove with lurking monsters, a strange shipwreck, and terrified villagers. Can you make it to the chapel to escape? Can you uncover the secrets of the nightmare prison?

Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 30.9%

Play as Snow, a solo agent sent on a mission to Biomydra to report on the fate of a fellow officer. Explore colorful environments in this toe curling action-adventure game as you unfurl the staggering truth about the breathing planet you are walking on and the twisted people who sent you there.

Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 30.9%

Enjoy the rewarding challenge of becoming a qualified Cosmonaut. Gracefully pilot your ship through multitudes of challenges, finding the perfect trajectory all the way to the top of the leaderboards.

Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 30.9%

A retro-inspired masterpiece, Mystery Castle is the one puzzle game that will rule them all!

Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 30.9%

Delve into the underground facility of Rail Recon, a Twin-stick Shooter with a Rail System. Navigate through its network of rails in search of its crystals, while maneuvering and fighting through the facility's defenses.

Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 30.9%

An explorative platformer inside a dying computer

Why similar: Adventure 35.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 30.9%

Fascinating, full of mysteries, an adventure with a storyline unfolded in the style of good old games with Retro Consoles!

Why similar: Adventure 36%, Action 33.7%, Indie 30.3%

Join the adventures of Little Jack. You will need to solve many interconnected puzzles that involve finding keys, pushing crates in order to reach the exit door. The game will have 4 difficulty levels so that each person regardless of its skill level can enjoy this game.

Why similar: Adventure 35.2%, Action 33%, Indie 31.7%

Darwin’s Test is a first-person action and puzzle game that immerses you into a futuristic universe. You play as an amnesic patient following an experimental care protocol. Who are you ? Where are you ? So many questions to solve to discover the truth !

Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 33.4%, Indie 29.9%

Craft your path in this innovative 2D platformer. Master the use of your own platform to explore the Forgotten World of Numbra and save the land and its inhabitants from an imminent threat. Do you have what it takes to survive in perilous Numbra?

Why similar: Adventure 36%, Action 33.8%, Indie 30.2%

Nubs' Adventure is platforming action and exploration combined with an intriguing story and a vast world to explore!

Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Action 33.9%, Indie 30%

CANARI is a 3d rogue-like in the dark. Players control LUMIN a shipwrecked robot who uses its flashlight to fend off creatures in the darkness. Collect energy from crystals and look for loot to power up your robot; hidden in the constantly changing labyrinth of caves.

Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Action 33.9%, Indie 30%

Dark fairy-tale about little beam of light. Explore the strange and mystic world.

Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Action 33.9%, Indie 30%

A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.

Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Action 33.1%, Indie 29.6%

Deep beneath the mountains of Wildergrey, far to the north on the continent of Azmarin, a tangle of shadow attempts to ensnare one brave explorer.

Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Action 33.9%, Indie 30%

Monkey Land 3D: Reaper Rush is 100% full of gameplay! There's bananas, treasure coins, Piggys in need of saving, locked treasure chests and thats just in the first 10 seconds! Find new abilities like the butt-stompy by finding the precious Dinosaur Feathers!

Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Action 33.9%, Indie 30%

Leave the prison undetected. You will be faced with different types of danger, such as guards, dogs, security cameras and helicopters. Brian has to jump, hang, crawl, kick and climb his way out or hide. He will have to use the environment and it's objects to distract his enemies and set them on the wrong track.

Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Action 33.9%, Indie 30%

A single player metroidvania 3D game with cooperative gameplay. Find out what's going on by taking control of distinct characters and change between them whenever you want. An unique mix of 3rd person shooter and challenging puzzles!

Why similar: Adventure 37.6%, Action 32.6%, Indie 29.8%

Mental Elementals is a 1 – 4 player twin stick shooter game. Player must use their element to fight through the level and reach the end as quickly as possible. Player’s can combine elements to create interesting effects.

Why similar: Adventure 35.5%, Action 34.4%, Indie 30%

WRONGED combines adventure-puzzle gameplay and a low-poly, pixelated art style with an oppressive horror atmosphere. Use only household items and your own wits to escape a warped, claustrophobic nightmare world shrouded in darkness.

Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Action 32.9%, Indie 29.7%

Bane of Asphodel is an Action-Adventure Game set in the mystical world of Asphodel. Players can play as Neith, a recently deceased normal person, and must liberate the land from the evil Keeper of the Cycle.

Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Action 33.9%, Indie 29.8%

PLUTONIUM: Distorted Shelter is a 2D adventure game about a major event that took place in a highly developed city state called Plutonium.

Why similar: Adventure 37.7%, Action 32.5%, Indie 29.8%

A 2D sci-fi platformer about a young boy who may be the last survivor of an alien invasion. Under the cover of night, he ventures out in search of other life and to seek revenge against the machines that have taken over the Earth.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 33.3%, Indie 29.5%

In 2088, Nazi Muslims achieved great success in the field of chemical weapons and, not to fall into captivity and fight even after death with the infidels, they created a serum that turned them into zombies.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 33.3%, Indie 29.5%

You are a dead, failed video game character wandering through the recesses of the Random Access Memory, trying to find peace in the final moments of your existence before being deleted forever......but forget that. The real story is that Continue?

Why similar: Adventure 37.3%, Indie 31.7%, Action 31%

Krystal's home has been burned down by a magic sword sent by a wizard, and it's up to you to help her beat him up!

Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Action 34%, Indie 29.7%

Departure is a first-person perspective action adventure game with sci-fi and horror elements. Try to survive in a vast zone full of dangerous anomalies that alter your surroundings, and monsters that hunt you down at night.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

Have you got what it takes to try out this challenging, intense and fast paced action-platform game? Think fast and think quick of where you are running as the tiles will start to disappear the moment you walked on it and the obstacles will be in your way to block you or knock you over. You can run. You can dash.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 33.3%, Indie 29.5%

Stickman World takes place in an underground world after the hero "Stickman" awakes in an unknown world. Play through an amazing story where Stickman has to solve puzzles in hopes to discover a way out of this world. The goals for each level are simple and require collecting all the hidden items through Stickman's journey.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

Game represents detective thriller from the first person with elements of my mysticism. Action takes place in 1996 in Denwood, player personates as its original resident. Suddenly cattle began to disappear on the island. Animals disappeared at nights absolutely without a trace, and, it seems that nobody could prevent it.

Why similar: Adventure 34.8%, Action 32.6%, Indie 32.6%

"The Sheltered" is a top-down adventure game with an emphasis on exploration and decision making. Combining old school graphics and simple gameplay with modern storytelling and a multitude of choices, "The Sheltered" pushes a choice between safety and morals.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 33.3%, Indie 29.5%

Years after leaving to wander Overworld, Viktor returns home to find his mother long dead and his brother in command of the Legion. As he aims to pick up the pieces of the life he left behind, Viktor finds himself in the midst of a gathering storm that will change Overworld forever...

Why similar: Adventure 34.7%, Action 34%, Indie 31.3%

Use gravity-changing abilities to solve puzzles.

Why similar: Adventure 34.5%, Action 34%, Indie 31.5%

Use your Platformer gun to create your way to surpass the obstacles and escape big evil dudes in 80+ levels!

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 33.3%, Indie 29.5%

Classic platformer in the style of Pixel-art. The main character goes to the world of 8-bit games to save his girlfriend. Help him to find new abilities and find out who is behind the abduction of the girl.

Why similar: Adventure 34.6%, Action 34%, Indie 31.4%

Goo Saga is a platform adventure game where the player guides an elastic creature named Goo in a perilous journey to find his creator – and with him, the mysterious purpose of his own creation. Will Goo succeed? Puzzles, deadly traps and an army of foes in a labyrinthine underwater lab block his way.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 33.3%, Indie 29.5%

The Siblings Denniz and Diana have to traverse a multitude of areas by jumping, sliding, climbing and fighting through them in this 2D-Jump'n'Run. Meanwhile, they encounter a... Mechanic-Pirate? Well, they have to stop him, whatever his plan actually is.

Why similar: Adventure 36.3%, Action 34%, Indie 29.7%

Armoured Engines is a steam punk western epic featuring train conductor Dusty Beats and her partner in crime, the ancient living engine Billy Wylam, as they search for El Dorado. Protect your train and shoot, fling, slice, and blow up hordes of enemies, using an arsenal of weaponry and passengers.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

Set in a distant future world, this is a unique first person shooter/platform/puzzle game where you need to find out why all the debris is falling and save your world from destruction.

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Action 33.3%, Indie 29.5%

Swap between a variety of playable flakes with unique abilities to embark on a colourful, hand-drawn 2D platforming adventure!

Why similar: Adventure 35%, Action 34.5%, Indie 30.5%

This is a decryption game (first-person perspective),The player is at a murder scene.The player must first find the body,Then find five clues scattered around the scene,Then you can pass the level.There are two levels in this game,The player focuses on the corpse or clue for more than 2s,Can trigger the dialog box (meanings the body or...

Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 33.6%, Indie 29.4%

Beyond Arm’s Reach is an action adventure game, set in a 1950’s steampunk universe. You have to use the physics based grappling hook, to navigate around the world, defeat enemies and solve puzzles along the way.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

You play as the brilliant Dr Lazarus. The newest energy source, Infinium, is used everywhere & threatens your memory. With Galatea by your side, hook & fling yourself with your mechanical arm, unlock new abilities, fight powerful bosses and stop Infinium’s progression before it’s too late!

Why similar: Adventure 35.1%, Action 34.4%, Indie 30.5%

Dash into action as the fluffiest pirate of the Seven Seas! Take on platforming challenges and explore a variety of islands.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

Two things: a charming co-op adventure and a cutthroat competitive party game. Be a tiny, adorable cube with hopes, dreams, unrequited loves… and unlimited destructive power.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

Run through each level as Pep-Pel! a goofy red goblin thing. In this beautifully hand drawn game. play through tons of fast-paced and difficult levels, each with there own challenge to master!

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

At your disposal are a dozen of the best combat spacecraft equipped with death beams, machine guns and missiles. The sector is divided into several subsectors, which swarm with enemies. In the end, you will have an unbeatable boss - the "Thing".

Why similar: Adventure 35.5%, Action 34.4%, Indie 30%

Everything Must Fall is an action-packed physics puzzle game in VR. You are an outcast among the tinies working your daily job as a demolitioner at Blow Big Stuff Up Ltd. Before you know it, your life is turned upside down. You must save your parents. A Journey of a lifetime begins.

Why similar: Adventure 35%, Action 34.5%, Indie 30.5%

Dragon Drop is a puzzle-platformer where you can drag and drop platforms, trampolines, stones, dynamite and candles into the game world. Journey across 30 colorful levels and battle fearsome bosses using your drag and drop ability to solve puzzles and save Stickland!

Why similar: Adventure 35%, Action 34.5%, Indie 30.5%

5,000 Achievements. A space adventure. For those who want to relax and try something new.

Why similar: Adventure 34.2%, Action 33.6%, Indie 32.2%

RECHARGE COMPLETE is a third/first person shooter featuring a hard-strutting jet-packing android created to destroy job-stealing robots! Blast enemies with homing missiles, lasers and EMP grenades! Jet pack, boost and skii your way through peril. Be the robohero you were made to be!

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

Fight to survive in an alien frontier full of beauty and danger on your quest to locate a missing starfighter.

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Action 34.3%, Indie 29%

This game is a parody of horror games, rather than running and hiding from the monster you are now able to fight back!

Why similar: Adventure 35.2%, Action 34.4%, Indie 30.3%