The Best Dark Games for Playstation 5 - Page 3

Update : Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter added at rank #18.
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Source of Madness (2022)

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Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.


  • lovecraftian
  • rogue-like
  • dark
  • roguevania
  • souls
  • fantasy
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • procedural
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • action
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • physics

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Evil Wizard (2023)

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Evil Wizard is a humor-filled action RPG that puts you in the shoes of a former Final Boss. Rise from defeat, rediscover long lost powers, and fight to reclaim your castle from an army of so-called heroes.


  • villain
  • protagonist
  • dark
  • humor
  • cartoony
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • rpg
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action
  • rogue-like
  • top-down

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Monark (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Android

Could you face yourself and the threats around you to save the ones you love? Shin Mikado Academy is engulfed in a madness-inducing Mist, and only you can save everyone inside. Develop your Ego to break the pacts set by the Pactbearers and remove the corrupting Mist.


  • japanese
  • rpg
  • dark
  • jrpg
  • turn-based
  • daemon
  • psychological
  • anime
  • 3d

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Super Dark Deception (2022)

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Death awaits you once again in Super Dark Deception, a fun 2D reimagining of the hit horror maze game, Dark Deception!


  • horror
  • runner
  • humor
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • lore
  • anime
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • retro
  • demons
  • rpg
  • arcade
  • cute

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Selfloss (2024)

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Selfloss is an emotional exploration game filled with rich lore, set in a whale-worshipping, Slavic-inspired world. Embark on the journey of the healer, Kazimir, and his magical staff as he fights a mysterious Miasm in search of a ritual to cure his wounded soul.


  • dark
  • fantasy
  • whale-worshiping
  • emotional
  • lore
  • slavic
  • metroidvania
  • puzzle
  • post-apocalyptic
  • magic
  • atmospheric
  • stylized
  • medieval
  • action-adventure
  • exploration

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Dark Light (2022)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Mac OS Xbox Series X

Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.


  • souls
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • cyberpunk
  • dark
  • gore
  • post-apocalyptic
  • horror
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • violent
  • zombies
  • puzzle
  • adventure

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Beholder 3 (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.


  • dystopian
  • political
  • choices
  • dark
  • point-and-click
  • simulation
  • lgbtq
  • multiple-endings
  • humor
  • management
  • isometric
  • nonlinear
  • atmospheric

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Outbreak The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows (2024)

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Something is foul in the city of Cypress Ridge. Uncover the truth in this narrative rich visual novel taking place just moments before a full blown undead epidemic.


  • dark
  • america
  • comic
  • humor
  • 1990s
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • detective
  • emotional
  • book
  • hand-drawn
  • cartoony
  • interactive
  • anime
  • drama

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Krimson (2024)

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Krimson is a challenging gritty rhythm platformer featuring heavy electronic metal music. You're an unknown spawn going through a hellish world as it moves rhythmically to the music. One wrong move means death but the checkpoints are often and death is very short.


  • psychological
  • dark
  • platform
  • rhythm
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • precision
  • abstract
  • 2d
  • thriller
  • demons
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • sci-fi
  • fantasy

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Christmas Massacre (2021)

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Deck the halls with gore and bloodshed! Larry's Christmas tree has been telling him to kill all the people who’ve been naughty, but whose side is the tree really on? And can Larry even trust what he's hearing? CHRISTMAS MASSACRE is an 80's inspired gore-drenched stealth slasher game with crusty, retro-style low-poly, graphics from horror developer Puppet Combo. Use Arcade-style stealth to stalk and murder your prey without being caught and switch between first and third-person camera modes to change the way you play. You must kill without being seen to complete each level. Can you satisfy your Christmas tree's bloodlust in time before the holidays come to an end?


  • dark
  • stealth
  • ps1
  • 1980s
  • humor
  • psychedelic
  • thriller
  • horror
  • violent
  • gore
  • surreal
  • comedy
  • fast-paced
  • survival-horror
  • third-person

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