Games like Darkest Days
Looking for games like Darkest Days? Here are top survival platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Showdown Bandit, Arise: A Simple Story or Gris.
1 52%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding52% User Score 356 reviewsSomething unnatural is stirring on the abandoned sets of the once popular kids puppet show, Showdown Bandit. Play as the awakened Bandit in this stealth-action-horror where your only hope of survival is entangled within the 3 rules of the show: Play your part. Guard your strings. And don’t look up!
View GameView Game


2 86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding90% User Score 889 reviewsCritic Score 81%29 reviewsSet out on an emotional journey through the bittersweet lives of two people where memories come alive and time bends to your will. Lose yourself in moments of happiness and overcome every hardship as you relive your life’s story. A story of joy and sorrow. A simple story.
View GameView Game


3 90%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsgrinding, stability96% User Score 20,942 reviewsCritic Score 85%48 reviewsGris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world.
View GameView Game


4 76%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, stability76% User Score 255 reviewsStay quiet. Stay hidden. Watch your steps. If you don't, run. Play as Abigail in her quest to find her grandmother in a cursed forest. Use your spellcasting abilities to hide from various dangers. Will you survive the night?
View GameView Game


5 66%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgameplay, grinding80% User Score 60 reviewsCritic Score 50%8 reviewsEmbark on a story-rich 2D Metroidvania adventure with breathtaking hand-drawn art, playing as miser-turned-hero Ebenezer Scrooge in a reimagined Victorian-fantasy based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Christmas Carol. Enlist the help of ghosts to save the people of London before it’s too late.
View GameView Game


6 79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability80% User Score 245 reviewsCritic Score 75%2 reviewsEmbark on a journey to give his majesty the ride of his afterlife. Guide a chariot containing the King's remains through underground caves using physics-based mechanics such as pushing, pulling, riding and swinging. Alone or with a friend, lead the brave Princess and her faithful Fiancé into the royal catacombs to find the perfect resting place for the King! The downloadable version of this game …
View GameView Game


7 91%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicreplayability, grinding91% User Score 66 reviewsLines is an abstract ‘zen’ game experience where form is just as important as function. Place or remove Dots to initiate a colourful race that fills a drawing. The colour that dominates the race wins.
View GameView Game


8 54%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, grinding54% User Score 174 reviewsAnoxemia is a story-driven exploration game that puts you in control of the scientist Dr. Bailey and his operations drone, ATMA. Search the ocean floor as you discover and extract samples from the bowels of the underwater caves. Danger lurks in each passageway, everything from poison drifts to powerful ocean currents, mines leftover from the war, and mobile machines running haywire. There's also t…
View GameView Game


9 88%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, stability88% User Score 1,895 reviewsWaking up naked in a slaughterhouse, you must escape and travel through a dystopian world to uncover the truth of your origins. Burning Daylight is a sci-fi adventure game, set in a dystopian future with light puzzle elements and environmental storytelling.
View GameView Game


10 59%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyatmosphere, stability63% User Score 56 reviewsCritic Score 40%1 reviewsFirst days at school are usually tough, but they can be even tougher if you’re helping a blind 8-year-old boy named Ian who doesn't know the terrifying dangers that lurk around in every hallway. You play as North, Ian’s lifelong canine companion. Can you help him escape alive?
View GameView Game











