The Best Dark Games - Page 3

Update : Buckshot Roulette added at rank #42.
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Freedom Finger (2019)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS

Shoot 'em Up, Punch 'em Up, F$ 'em Up! Freedom Finger is a music driven, side-scrolling shooter that sends you blasting, punching, and smashing your way across 36 levels of bat$#!% crazy cartoon action. Starring Nolan North, John DiMaggio, Eric Bauza, and Sam Riegel! Freedom Finger sends you blasting, punching, and smashing your way across 37 levels of crazy cartoon action. Featuring a unique soundtrack including music by Red Fang, Aesop Rock, METZ, Power Trip, Com Truise, White Fence, Ty Segall, Makeup and Vanity Set, True Widow, The Radio Dept., Drab Majesty, John Maus, Vektroid, Danimal Cannon, Cleaners from Venus, and many more! Freedom Finger features classic shmup gameplay blended with melee combat! You're flying a giant fist, so use it! Punch, toss, and smash enemies to smithereens! The unique Grab attack allows you to capture enemies; use them as a shield or wield their guns against their own comrades! Rhythm based chaos! The music is heavily connected to the gameplay, so things like enemies, bosses, attacks, and events are synced to the music. Fight your way through 37 handcrafted levels, spread out over 12 worlds! Each world features new enemies, power-ups, and challenges!


  • dark
  • cartoony
  • comedy
  • humor
  • music
  • bullet-hell
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • hand-drawn
  • space
  • fast-paced
  • funny
  • 2d
  • shooter
  • story

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Splatter (2021)

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Splatter is a first-person fever dream where you blast constantly-adapting enemies into neon sprays of pulp and slime. Enter a digital mindscape constructed by four anonymous administrators. Can you survive? Can you remain sane? Can you remain yourself?


  • dark
  • shooter
  • first-person
  • surreal
  • humor
  • psychedelic
  • gore
  • psychological
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • colourful
  • fps
  • 1990s
  • pve
  • zombies

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Blind Drive (2021)

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IOS iPhone Android Mac OS PC Windows

An audio-based black comedy action arcade game - Blind Drive is a video game you can play with your eyes closed! 1st person hyper-realistic audio adventure meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot.


  • immersive
  • humor
  • crime-comedy
  • short
  • thriller
  • dark
  • driving
  • arcade
  • audio
  • funny
  • narration
  • action-adventure
  • stylized
  • experimental
  • minimalist

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Please, Touch the Artwork 2 (2024)

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PC Windows Mac OS IOS iPhone Android

A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no dlc's).


  • hidden-object
  • dark
  • surreal
  • zen-puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • casual
  • narrative-adventure
  • puzzle
  • humor
  • cats
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • colourful
  • friends-and-family
  • exploration

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Lost Epic (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Become the ultimate God Slayer in the epic world of Sanctum as you take down the Pantheon of Six. Craft and upgrade unique weapons and use a satisfying combination of attacks and Divine Skills to defeat challenging enemies in this 2D side-scrolling action RPG. Dive into the fantasy world and uncover its secrets with hidden items and quests. While Lost Epic offers smooth combat and beautiful art design, it has some negative aspects to consider.


What we like:
  • Satisfying combat system
  • Robust character progression
  • Good weapon variety
  • Fun skill system
  • Fantastic art design
What could be improved:
  • Grindy gameplay
  • Limited character customization
  • Infuriating enemies
  • Janky combat system
  • Limited coop functionality

  • metroidvania
  • dark
  • souls
  • 2d
  • rpg
  • action
  • character
  • fantasy
  • cooperative
  • humor
  • side-scrolling
  • hack-and-slash
  • anime
  • customization
  • psychological

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Simp (2023)

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PC Windows

This is a survival horror game.


  • dark
  • third-person
  • horror
  • dating-sim
  • single-player
  • america
  • experimental
  • dungeon-crawler
  • simulation
  • psychological
  • romance
  • fantasy
  • action-adventure
  • adventure

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Antioch: Scarlet Bay (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Antioch: Scarlet Bay is an online cooperative narrative adventure. Play as two detectives working together to solve a murder in the shadowy city of Antioch. Wander in a city filled with characters with their own agendas and attitudes, all your decisions change the story and lead to multi endings.


  • choices
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • noir
  • cooperative
  • asynchronous
  • comic
  • 1990s
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • detective
  • comedy
  • interactive
  • visual-novel
  • book

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Nocturnal (2023)

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

After years of traveling, Ardeshir finds his native island covered in a mysterious fog. Carve your way with fire and steel to find out what happened to your people in this action-platformer game. You’re the only one who can discover the secrets that lie beyond the Mist.


  • platform
  • scroller
  • soundtrack
  • 2d
  • linear
  • narration
  • action-adventure
  • mystery
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • demons
  • exploration
  • combat
  • eroge

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Pineapple on pizza (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Can a video game convey a flavor?

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  • dark
  • short
  • cartoony
  • humor
  • walking-simulator
  • comedy
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • atmospheric
  • colourful

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Brutal Orchestra (2021)

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Linux PC Windows

Brutal Orchestra is a Turn-Based Roguelike Strategy Game. You died, someone killed you. You are now in Purgatory and you will never escape. Make a deal with the "demon" Bosch and set off into this bastardous world finding ​all manner of demented friends and foes on your quest to get petty revenge.


  • dark
  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • turn-based
  • humor
  • 2.5d
  • psychedelic
  • cartoony
  • comedy
  • dungeon-crawler
  • pixel
  • colourful

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