Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Dark Deception (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Dark Deception on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Ultimate Custom Night, which both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult.
- Dark Deception is tagged Horror, Free to Play, Multiplayer, Singleplayer, First-Person, Psychological Horror, Runner, Survival Horror by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 4 are free to download, so you can test the resemblance yourself at no cost.
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Ultimate Custom Night
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 10 player tags including Free to Play, Horror and Survival Horror; released around the same time (2018).
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Ultimate Custom Night at a glance Released 2018 Studio Scott Cawthon Player sentiment 95% positive of 62,777 Price Free Free to PlayHorrorSurvival HorrorDifficultFirst-PersonSurvivalDarkIndie
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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and First-Person; released around the same time (2019).
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of classic and original mini-games set in the Five Nights universe. Experience the horror in flat (non-VR) mode or VR. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are supported. A VR Headset is NOT required to play.
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED at a glance Released 2019 Studio Steel Wool Studios Player sentiment 96% positive of 13,118 Price $29.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorDarkSurvivalDifficultStory Rich
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and Psychological Horror; released around the same time (2014).
Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 at a glance Released 2014 Studio Scott Cawthon Player sentiment 94% positive of 26,115 Price $7.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorDifficultFirst-PersonIndieDarkSurvival
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Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and First-Person; released around the same time (2015).
In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 at a glance Released 2015 Studio Scott Cawthon Player sentiment 93% positive of 16,924 Price $7.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonDarkDifficultPsychological HorrorSurvivalIndie
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and First-Person; released around the same time (2016).
Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location at a glance Released 2016 Studio Scott Cawthon Player sentiment 90% positive of 12,642 Price $7.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonDarkDifficultSurvivalIndieStory Rich
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Hello Neighbor
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 9 player tags including Horror, First-Person and Story Rich; released around the same time (2017).
Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
Hello Neighbor at a glance Released 2017 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 86% positive of 32,548 Price $29.99 HorrorFirst-PersonStory RichSurvival HorrorDifficultSurvivalPsychological HorrorDark Humor
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Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Free to Play, Horror and Survival Horror; released around the same time (2017).
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator at a glance Released 2017 Studio Scott Cawthon Player sentiment 94% positive of 33,261 Price Free Free to PlayHorrorSurvival HorrorDifficultIndieFirst-PersonStory RichPsychological Horror
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The Evil Within
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and Psychological Horror; released around the same time (2014).
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
The Evil Within at a glance Released 2014 Studio Tango Gameworks Player sentiment 85% positive of 33,579 Price $19.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvivalDarkDifficultCinematicStory Rich
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Blair Witch
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and story-rich; shares 9 player tags including Horror, Psychological Horror and Indie; released around the same time (2019).
A first-person, story-driven psychological horror game based on the cinematic lore of the Blair Witch. Explore the haunted grounds of the Black Hills Forest in a harrowing investigation that forces you to confront the evil that resides deep in the woods.
Blair Witch at a glance Released 2019 Studio Bloober Team SA Player sentiment 79% positive of 8,116 Price $29.99 HorrorPsychological HorrorIndieFirst-PersonDarkStory RichSurvival HorrorCinematic
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Changed
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Difficult, Psychological Horror and Indie; released around the same time (2018).
You are trapped in an experiment, trying to find ways to make you still "yourself" , persevere, and survive.
Changed at a glance Released 2018 Studio DragonSnow Player sentiment 86% positive of 18,545 Price $4.99 DifficultPsychological HorrorIndieStory RichHorrorRPGSurvival Horror
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Five Nights at Freddy's
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and Psychological Horror; released around the same time (2014).
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
Five Nights at Freddy's at a glance Released 2014 Studio Scott Cawthon Player sentiment 94% positive of 59,195 Price $4.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorIndieDifficultFirst-PersonDarkSurvival
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Outlast 2
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and story-rich; shares 8 player tags including Horror, Psychological Horror and Survival Horror; released around the same time (2017).
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
Outlast 2 at a glance Released 2017 Studio Red Barrels Player sentiment 91% positive of 64,380 Price $4.99 HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonDarkSurvivalStory RichIndie
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SCP: Secret Laboratory
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Free to Play, Horror and First-Person; released around the same time (2017).
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
SCP: Secret Laboratory at a glance Released 2017 Studio Northwood Studios Player sentiment 91% positive of 234,020 Price Free Free to PlayHorrorFirst-PersonSurvival HorrorSurvivalPsychological HorrorDifficultIndie
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and First-Person; released around the same time (2015).
Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great l
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 at a glance Released 2015 Studio Scott Cawthon Player sentiment 90% positive of 11,334 Price $7.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorDifficultIndieSurvivalDark
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DEVOUR
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and Psychological Horror; released around the same time (2021).
DEVOUR is a co-op horror survival game for 1-4 players. Stop possessed cultists before they drag you to hell. Run. Scream. Hide. Just don't get caught.
DEVOUR at a glance Released 2021 Studio Straight Back Games Player sentiment 90% positive of 88,093 Price $9.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorDarkSurvivalFirst-PersonIndieDifficult
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Bendy and the Ink Machine
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and story-rich; shares 8 player tags including Horror, First-Person and Survival Horror; released around the same time (2017).
Bendy and the Ink Machine® is the first person puzzle action horror game that will forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.
Bendy and the Ink Machine at a glance Released 2017 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 89% positive of 36,934 Price $5.99 HorrorFirst-PersonSurvival HorrorDarkIndieStory RichPsychological HorrorFree to Play
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We Happy Few
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and story-rich; shares 8 player tags including Survival, First-Person and Indie; released around the same time (2018).
From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.
We Happy Few at a glance Released 2018 Studio Compulsion Games Player sentiment 77% positive of 13,772 Price $59.99 SurvivalFirst-PersonIndiePsychological HorrorHorrorDarkSurvival HorrorStory Rich
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Kholat
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and story-rich; shares 8 player tags including Horror, Psychological Horror and Survival Horror; released around the same time (2015).
The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.
Kholat at a glance Released 2015 Studio IMGN.PRO Player sentiment 66% positive of 6,913 Price $19.99 HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorIndieFirst-PersonSurvivalStory RichDark
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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
Why it matched: both survival, horror and psychological; shares 9 player tags including Horror, Free to Play and First-Person; released around the same time (2015).
Can you survive 1000 rooms of cute terror? Or will you break once the cuteness starts to fade off and you're running for your life from the unspeakable hideous beings that shake and writhe in bowels of this house? They wait for you, they wait and hunger for meeting you.
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion at a glance Released 2015 Studio Lag Studios Player sentiment 93% positive of 15,535 Price Free HorrorFree to PlayFirst-PersonIndiePsychological HorrorDark HumorDarkSurvival Horror
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Outlast
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Horror, First-Person and Survival Horror.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
Outlast at a glance Released 2013 Studio Red Barrels Player sentiment 96% positive of 138,407 Price $14.99 HorrorFirst-PersonSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvivalDarkIndieDifficult
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Slender: The Arrival
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and First-Person.
Slender Man returns more terrifying than ever. You're on your own. No one to help you. No one to hear you scream. Relive the horror all over again with cutting edge visuals for the 10th Anniversary Update and experience survival horror at its finest.
Slender: The Arrival at a glance Released 2013 Studio Blue Isle Studios Player sentiment 88% positive of 9,349 Price $19.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonIndieDarkPsychological HorrorSurvivalDifficult
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Undertale
Why it matched: both horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Story Rich, Multiple Endings and RPG; released around the same time (2015).
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Undertale at a glance Released 2015 Studio 8-4 Player sentiment 96% positive of 338,731 Price $9.99 Story RichMultiple EndingsRPGIndieDarkPsychological HorrorHorror
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Resident Evil Village
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and story-rich; shares 7 player tags including Survival Horror, Horror and First-Person; released around the same time (2021).
Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.
Resident Evil Village at a glance Released 2021 Studio CAPCOM Co., Ltd. Player sentiment 96% positive of 153,329 Price $39.99 Survival HorrorHorrorFirst-PersonStory RichDarkSurvivalPsychological Horror
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The Evil Within 2
Why it matched: both survival, horror, psychological and story-rich; shares 7 player tags including Horror, Survival Horror and Psychological Horror; released around the same time (2017).
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
The Evil Within 2 at a glance Released 2017 Studio Tango Gameworks Player sentiment 92% positive of 30,959 Price $39.99 HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorStory RichSurvivalFirst-PersonDark
Common questions
What game is most like Dark Deception?
Ultimate Custom Night, on the evidence we have. It both survival, horror, psychological, story-rich and difficult. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Dark Deception" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Dark Deception. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.