The Best Dark Games for Playstation 4 - Page 5

Update : Achilles: Survivor added at rank #13.
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Prison Simulator (2021)

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Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?


  • conversation
  • first-person
  • crime
  • dark
  • trading
  • sandbox
  • comedy
  • management
  • stealth
  • inventory
  • atmospheric
  • fps
  • open-world
  • simulation
  • realistic

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Tales from Candleforth (2024)

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Tales from Candleforth is a collection of fairy tales that were written on top of a forbidden book many years ago to hide its content. Years later, the dark text is bleeding out and onto the pages of the tales, mixing with them and twisting the stories. Discover a 2D world brimming with detail, fully drawn and animated by hand.


  • horror
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • conversation
  • surreal
  • lore
  • hidden-object
  • old-school
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • point-and-click
  • horror-puzzle
  • puzzle
  • fantasy
  • cute

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Chicken Assassin: Reloaded (2016)

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Fight your way as Mean Mcallister, the baddest chicken in town, through multiple hordes of enemies to save your girlfriend in this hilarious, strategic button-mashing, action-RPG.


  • dark
  • clicker
  • humor
  • beat-em-up
  • comic
  • idler
  • cyberpunk
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • 2d
  • funny
  • comedy
  • survival
  • single-player
  • casual

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One Last Breath (2024)

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One Last Breath tells a story about despair but also about hope. Gaia has the ability to control the environment. Create paths using trunks, summon vines to hang between gaps, and solve puzzles using your powers to save our planet.


  • 2.5d
  • nature
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • scroller
  • puzzle
  • story
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • action-adventure

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Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning (2018)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS

Join retired salesman rabbit, Hank, and his canine pal, Larry, in part one of this story-driven game series as they use their knowledge of influence and persuasion to make their way through the apocalypse—without having to risk their own skin. With a mixture of dark comedy and the use of real-life influence tactics, this story-driven game puts you behind the wheel of the characters’ choices. Can you convince a timid animal to enter dangerous looting locations? Will you risk your scavenger’s life for more resources? Now with full voice acting!


  • comedy
  • dark
  • loot
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • fiction
  • zombies
  • post-apocalyptic
  • visual-novel
  • lore
  • satire
  • trading
  • interactive
  • story
  • humor

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FIGHT KNIGHT (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 4

The mysterious Tower has risen again, shrouding the land in darkness. Do you have what it takes to climb through its twisted halls and reach the top, where great treasure awaits? FIGHT KNIGHT is a unique mix of first-person dungeon crawler and high-speed action game, with thrilling real-time combat and challenging puzzles to solve. Equip your character with powerful moves and gauntlets, and fight your way past clever enemies that work together to defeat you. Conquer the Tower and be the hero who saves the land!


What we like:
  • Unique and engaging combat system
  • Charm and style in visuals, music, and dialogue
  • Linear gameplay with light puzzles and boss battles
  • Plenty of replayability with potential new game+ run
  • Non-roguelite dungeon crawler
What could be improved:
  • Some puzzles can be a pain to get through
  • Frantic combat can get too difficult
  • Restocking on potions is monotonous
  • Linear gameplay

  • movement
  • beat-em-up
  • dungeon-crawler
  • fantasy
  • grid
  • dark
  • souls
  • comedy
  • rpg
  • pixel
  • first-person
  • hack-and-slash
  • rhythm
  • retro
  • cartoony

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Creepy Tale: Ingrid Penance (2023)

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As punishment for her transgressions, Ingrid is sent to hell. As she struggles through the darkness that hungers to consume her heart, she makes her way toward redemption. Her fate is in your hands.


  • escape
  • room
  • horror
  • dark
  • narration
  • supernatural
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • drama
  • psychological
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • story

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Faye Falling (2024)

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Faye Falling is a single-player, story-driven, turn-based RPG. You play as a recently deceased spirit trying to find their way in an afterlife seeped in termoil. It is up to you to save your soul, and every soul, from the great darkness that threatens it.


  • japanese
  • rpg
  • dark
  • philosophical
  • jrpg
  • emotional
  • turn-based
  • story
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • surreal
  • pixel
  • psychological
  • 2d
  • colourful

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Atari Mania (2022)

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Atari Mania is a microgame collection wrapped in an hilarious retro-driven narrative of exploration and surprise. You play as the Caretaker of the Atari Vault, the storehouse of classic Atari games.


  • pixel
  • comedy
  • retro
  • arcade
  • boss
  • classic
  • fiction
  • 1980s
  • dark
  • warioware
  • bite-sized
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • 1990s
  • interactive

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Oddworld: Soulstorm (2021)

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Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.


  • platform
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • 2.5d
  • action-adventure
  • 1990s
  • humor
  • lore
  • conspiracy
  • dystopian
  • 2d
  • realistic
  • remake
  • stealth
  • multiple-endings

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