The Best Dark Games

Update : Lucky Tower Ultimate added at rank #1.
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Lucky Tower Ultimate (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Escape from a dangerous tower where everything can be a weapon. Lucky Tower Ultimate is a slapstick, roguelike adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!

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  • rogue-like
  • dark
  • humor
  • fantasy
  • loot
  • procedural
  • parody
  • hand-drawn
  • dungeon-crawler
  • emotional
  • medieval
  • 2d
  • cartoony
  • funny
  • choices

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NanoApostle (2024)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

NanoApostle is a dark sci-fi boss rush action game featuring intense reaction-based combat and the unique "Destruction Point" system. Play as Anita, a child augmented with lethal nanomachines, as she battles against twisted cybernetic experiments to escape a top-secret facility.

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  • rush
  • dark
  • spectacle
  • souls
  • bullet-hell
  • hack-and-slash
  • boss
  • futuristic
  • action

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Hard Time III (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The toughest prison sim in the yard is back to serve its 3rd consecutive sentence - combining classic moments from the OG with the best aspects of 2D, while putting out a few hits of its own! Tackle crime from either side of the prison fence, while a larger world beyond it makes life worth living.


  • crime
  • humor
  • wrestling
  • simulation
  • customization
  • life
  • character
  • gun
  • sentence-combining
  • investigation
  • conversation
  • dark
  • crafting
  • choices
  • open-world

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Utopia Must Fall (2024)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.

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  • dark
  • arcade
  • rogue-like
  • shoot-em-up
  • base-building
  • humor
  • tower-defense
  • bullet-hell
  • procedural
  • perma-death
  • comedy
  • abstract
  • sci-fi
  • minimalist
  • shooter

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Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire (2024)

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PC Windows osvr

Become a vampire slayer and eliminate powerful sleeping monsters — an endeavor undertaken by only the bravest souls. In this jumpscare game with elements of horror and puzzle, you must destroy a clan of ancient vampires by carefully disarming their coffins’ defenses with the help of your guide.

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  • dark
  • grand-strategy
  • mystery
  • gothic
  • noir
  • dungeon-crawler
  • lore
  • horror
  • vr
  • tactical
  • dungeon
  • real-time
  • supernatural
  • first-person
  • vampire

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Creepy Tale: Some Other Place Windows (2024)

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PC Windows

Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to "some other place." Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.


  • escape
  • dark
  • room
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • lore
  • atmospheric
  • narration
  • puzzle
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • linear
  • point-and-click
  • mystery

7

Galacticare (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.


  • medical
  • humor
  • management
  • god-game
  • base-building
  • building
  • economy
  • dark
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • space

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Sad Satan (2024)

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Android PC Windows

You have been kidnapped by a gang on the dark web and you need to stay alive , but you find a group of audio recordings and pictures related to horrific crimes amidst screams of suffering in the darkness


  • horror
  • dark
  • psychological
  • survival-horror
  • three-dimensional
  • fantasy
  • fast-paced
  • perspective

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Krimson (2024)

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

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.

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

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The Thaumaturge (2024)

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PC Windows

The Thaumaturge is a story-driven RPG with morally ambiguous choices, taking place in the culturally diverse world of early 20th century Warsaw. In this world, salutors exist: esoteric beings that only thaumaturges can truly perceive and use for their needs.


  • dark
  • isometric
  • story
  • rpg
  • lore
  • magic
  • combat
  • turn-based
  • choices
  • fantasy
  • psychological
  • detective
  • mystery
  • collector
  • creature

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