Games like Darkest Dungeon®
Darkest Dungeon is a gothic turn-based RPG: you send a party of four heroes into dungeons, watch their stress as closely as their health, and lose them for good when they die.
Liked Darkest Dungeon®? Each game below says what it keeps from it and what it changes.
Steam data checked Sep 26, 2026 · How matches are scored
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These share a lot with Darkest Dungeon® on Steam, but Shypiard has not written their profile yet.
What makes it distinctive?
Expeditions into dungeons assembled for each visit, fought in turn-based battles where a hero's place in the line decides which skills work. Heroes build up stress; past a limit they break, turn on the party or die of a heart attack. Between expeditions, the town heals, trains and replaces them.
Who plays Darkest Dungeon®?
For players who accept losing a favourite hero and carry on with the next recruit.
Fantasy: Survival / Horror tension. Fantasy is our reading of the game, separate from the Steam review score.
A match rises when it shares the way you play: the loop, the mechanics, the session. A shared mood alone does not put a game at the top. If too little is known, the row is left off.
How to read this list
Slay the Spire keeps the turn-based fights and the run that ends at one mistake, with cards in place of heroes. FTL keeps the crew lost along the way. Into the Breach keeps positioning as the key to every turn.
FAQ
Is this a Steam tag clone list?
No. Tags are one input. Mechanics, fantasy, progression and session structure are classified by Shypiard. If a signal is missing it is skipped.
Why is a famous game missing?
Either Shypiard has not profiled it yet, or it shares too little with Darkest Dungeon® to be a fair match. The list is never padded to reach a round number.