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Games like Darkest Dungeon 2016
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Darkest Dungeon
Games closest to Darkest Dungeon
Darkwood 2017Also bleak, grave and overwhelming
Darkest Dungeon II 2023Also bleak, grave and overwhelming
Mortal Shell 2020Also grave, bleak and demanding
Vampyr 2018Also grave and bleak
System Shock 2 1999Also bleak and grave
Labyrinth of the Demon King 2025Also bleak, grave and overwhelming
Death Howl 2025Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Demon's Souls 2009Also grave, bleak and demanding
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream 1995Also bleak, overwhelming and grave
The Pale Beyond 2023Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Amnesia: Rebirth 2020Also bleak, grave and overwhelming
Frostpunk 2018Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- The Divinity of Oceans 2009Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
- The Barghest o’ Whitby 2011Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
- Embossed Dream in Four Acts 1998Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Films
The Proposition 2005Also grave and bleak
The Wild Bunch 1969Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Cross of Iron 1977Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Series
Penny Dreadful 2014Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
The Underground Railroad 2021Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
1883 2021Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Books
Buffalo Hunter Hunter 2025Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
From hell 1991Also bleak and grave
Melmoth the Wanderer 1820Also bleak, grave and overwhelming
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