Best Dark Comedy Games on Steam
Games that make jokes from grim, morbid, taboo, or uncomfortable subjects.
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1POSTAL 2 - Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Nov 2, 2012
In this game, you can…
- pick up a cat and attach it to a gun as a silencer.
- meet Gary Coleman, pee on him, and still get his autograph for your errand list.
- douse someone in gasoline, set them on fire, then pee to put the fire out and keep going.
- turn a quick milk run into a townwide riot and shootout.
- pee on people, animals, objects, and even your own reflection.
- smoke crack for extra health, then kick in doors and turn a normal errand into a rampage.
- decapitate people with a shovel or machete, and spread disease with a cow head weapon.
- lay out donuts as bait to lure a cop into a pile of grenades and watch bystanders blunder into it.
- finish the whole week peacefully, or steal a cop uniform and blend in while you do your errands.
2Killing Floor - 6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
May 14, 2009
In this game, you can…
- watch the whole fight drop into slow motion for a few seconds so you can line up shots and see bodies get torn apart in detail.
- face a boss with a minigun arm and rocket launcher who can turn invisible, then reappear to wipe the squad.
- weld doors shut to reroute the horde, then hold the choke point while you listen to the barricade get pounded down.
- survive wave after wave with up to five friends.
- sprint to a pop-up shop between waves, toss your cash to a teammate, and still make it back before it closes.
- fight enemies that crawl out of ceilings, spit fireballs, or scream to shut down your team's projectiles.
- be the last player alive while everyone spectates, and win the wave anyway by kiting the whole horde around the map.
- buy and use weapons like katanas, chainsaws, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers.
3Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc - Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.
Feb 18, 2016
In this game, you can…
- get trapped in a school where the only way out is murdering a classmate and convincing everyone else you didn't do it.
- shoot the exact piece of evidence into a moving statement to shatter a lie mid-argument.
- rebuild the entire murder as a comic-book sequence, placing the events panel by panel until the case finally clicks.
- hang out with classmates, give them gifts, learn their secrets, and then later have to investigate them as suspects or victims.
- roam the sealed academy for clues after a murder, collecting statements and evidence before the trial starts.
- bounce between rapid-fire trial games, including locking on to arguments to a rhythm and shooting letters to spell out key evidence.
- unlock new floors and rooms over time, turning the school into a slowly expanding murder-mystery map you can freely explore.
4Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - Jabberwock Island—You and your classmates were ready for fun in the sun until Monokuma returned to restart his murderous game! Trapped in a kill-or-be-killed situation, your only hope rests in solving the island’s mysteries.
Apr 18, 2016
In this game, you can…
- finish someone's friendship arc and receive their favorite underwear as a reward.
- learn you've been inside a virtual world all along, then watch it get hijacked and corrupted as the endgame twists into something bigger.
- discover your protagonist isn't just himself, but an altered version rebuilt by implanted talents that start waking up mid-story.
- solve a murder to escape, or get executed with everyone else.
- search the whole island for clues, interrogate classmates, then walk into a trial where every argument can get someone killed.
- shoot down lies in courtroom debates by matching the right evidence to the exact statement.
- get dragged into a one-on-one logic duel where another student attacks your reasoning and you have to break their argument head-on.
- tackle an escape-room section where you're trapped and have to puzzle out a way to get out.
- enter a postgame mode where nobody dies, you fast-track hangouts, craft items, and raise classmates like digital pets.
5Pineapple on pizza - Can a video game convey a flavor?
Mar 28, 2023
In this game, you can…
- climb up by the volcano, decide to raise the lava, and watch the island burn while you stay unharmed.
- fall into the volcano by accident, float upward with lava beneath you, and trigger an eruption that blasts you toward the escape boats.
- wait on boats that won't move until islanders notice the lava and push you off to safety—without knowing you caused it.
- wander into a welcoming dance circle and get surrounded by islanders showing off new moves as you meet more residents.
- dive into a circle of dancers, then learn speed from kids, boldness from locals, and beast-taming from a lone elder.
- walk up to a limbo game, fail the limbo, and smash the whole setup so the dancers just keep going without it.
- see a distant ship crash into a rock and explode as a background gag while you're still on the island.
- bond with a turtle that isn't just cute—it helps you progress through the island.
6The Coffin of Andy and Leyley - Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Oct 13, 2023
In this game, you can…
- lure a girl to an abandoned warehouse, lock her in a box overnight, find her dead, then decide how to dispose of the body.
- stack break-ins, robbery, murder, ritual sacrifice, and cannibalism as every attempt to fix things makes them worse.
- get shown premonitions of grim outcomes before they happen, then choose whether to steer into them anyway.
- switch between a brother and sister and make choices from each of their perspectives.
- botch a satanic ritual, then keep going until human sacrifice and eating human remains are on the table.
- solve light navigation puzzles that can trigger flashbacks and reveal what the siblings did in their past.
- push the siblings' relationship into radically different directions, from staying close to turning on each other completely.
- jump back into childhood scenes that reveal how early the siblings' manipulation and cruelty started.
760 Seconds! Reatomized - The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.
Jul 25, 2019
In this game, you can…
- open the shelter door to strangers, then watch them "clean out the trash" by taking your food, water, and even your son.
- deal with bunker events where a giant spider moves in and pays rent while you decide how to respond.
- sprint through your house for 60 seconds, grabbing supplies and family members, then slam the shelter door right before the nuke hits.
- choose between saving a family member or stuffing your last slot with soup, a gas mask, or a flashlight.
- send a family member into the wasteland, then have them return with supplies, return injured, or come back green.
- try to befriend a giant cockroach while mutant roaches and other radioactive creatures infest your shelter.
- survive long enough for a military rescue, even if the rest of your family dies along the way.
8The Looker - You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Jun 17, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn a familiar maze panel into a first-person shooter sequence, then finish it like an arcade challenge.
- reach a final puzzle that ends the whole game as a single escalating punchline.
- play a sudden Snake-style arcade segment in the middle of the puzzle island.
- solve maze puzzles that are hidden in the world, not just on panels.
- cheat at labyrinths by exploiting how the world and panels interact.
- solve a puzzle using sound cues instead of visual logic, and brute-force it if you want.
- unlock running late in the game and realize you could've been sprinting around the island the whole time.
- look through a telescope straight at the sun.
9Not For Broadcast - A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Jan 25, 2022
In this game, you can…
- juggle camera cuts, audio, ads, and censorship while the control room overheats, shorts out, gets hit by lightning, and keeps trying to shut down.
- change someone's fate by what you play on-air, like tanking a career with repeated boo sounds or saving a life by timing an ad break.
- air a harmless-looking toy ad, then face a later news segment where the presenters react to the fallout from advertising it.
- switch live camera feeds and bleep words in real time, with no rewind, while the broadcast keeps rolling.
- keep a finger on the censor button as guests blurt swear words and political slip-ups you have to bleep on cue.
- keep the show on air while new problems stack up, from signal interference to stuffed-toy chaos to fending off a murderer mid-broadcast.
- broadcast a scandal live when a public official's hidden sex-dungeon story explodes on camera during an interview.
- rewatch the entire broadcast afterward and see everything that was happening off-camera while you were switching feeds.
- shape the country's politics by what you choose to show, making the ruling party's rise and the slide into authoritarianism play out on-air.
10Kindergarten - Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.
Jun 15, 2017
In this game, you can…
- feed a girl her own dog, then keep looping the day to see what other absurd outcomes you can trigger.
- get stuck in a Monday time loop, keeping your money and items each reset.
- collect Monstermon cards hidden behind specific dialogue setups and use the full set to unlock a secret ending.
- build a permanent stash of special items by finishing character routes, then chain them across loops to reach the ending.
- engineer a day by getting specific kids into specific rooms at exact times so one quest unlocks another.
- refuse the principal's pills in his office and get executed on the spot.
- trade cigarettes and cash to authority figures like the hall monitor to open access and change your route.
- set up multi-step murder schemes across class, lunch, and recess once you know the day's rules.
