Best Dark Humor Games on Steam
Games using cynical, morbid, or uncomfortable jokes as part of their voice.
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1Portal 2 - The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Apr 18, 2011
In this game, you can…
- hit a chapter title that literally says "this is the part where he kills you" as the game turns it into a set-piece
- bounce across chambers with repulsion gel, build insane speed with propulsion gel, then paint walls to make new portal surfaces
- play co-op where each robot has its own portal gun, and your solution can break the bridge your partner is standing on
- wake up from long-term stasis, get guided by a friendly AI, and then have the main villain come back online
- use portals to redirect lasers, light bridges, and tractor beams through moving machinery to power your way forward
- chain portals to fling yourself over pits, launch cubes onto buttons, and keep extending the same trick into bigger gaps
- replay co-op stages for least time and least portals, racing friends as they knock you off the leaderboard
- drop into community-made test chambers and keep getting brand-new puzzles long after the story ends
2Borderlands 2 - The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Sep 17, 2012
In this game, you can…
- dual-wield any two guns, including two rocket launchers at once.
- loot a gun with hidden red-text behavior that shoots explosive swords instead of bullets.
- run a secret quest where you toss a ring into lava, then three birds fly in and drop loot chests.
- get downed, then save yourself by killing an enemy to stand back up.
- build characters into totally different roles, like a turret-dropping soldier, a crowd-lifting siren, or an invisible melee assassin.
- spend 50 golden keys in a row, grab a new weapon, then immediately jump back into a hard fight to see if it flips the outcome.
- replay the whole campaign in escalating modes where enemies get nastier and your build and weapons have to keep evolving.
- smash through enemies in an off-road vehicle while crossing huge hostile zones on Pandora.
- farm bosses and chests for randomized drops until you finally hit a perfect weapon-part roll
3Portal - Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Oct 10, 2007
In this game, you can…
- fall into a portal to build speed, then explode out the other across impossible gaps.
- watch a simple cube become a lifesaver when it blocks a deadly energy ball for you.
- solve fights without shooting by redirecting enemies and danger through portals and props.
- place a blue portal and an orange portal to make an instant entrance and exit.
- use portals to turn a drop into a slingshot, launch onto a ledge, grab a cube midair, and land on a button before a hazard triggers.
- hear an AI narrate and taunt you the whole time, like the facility is watching and lying.
- tip over a turret that looked terrifying and it just collapses and stops.
- rip pieces off the final boss, carry each one to an incinerator, and repeat the cycle three times to finish it.
4POSTAL 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.
5Cult of the Lamb - Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Aug 11, 2022
In this game, you can…
- tell a follower about the afterlife, let them volunteer to die for you, and watch a tentacled void drag them away mid-ritual.
- recruit enemies and even bosses you just defeated, then decide whether to marry them, humiliate them, chain them up, or keep them working.
- start a romance quest for a follower, botch the love spell, still hold the wedding, and then get asked to arrange a fight to the death with their crush.
- get executed as a sacrificial lamb, then get resurrected by an imprisoned god who hands you a crown.
- build a cult camp with farms and kitchens, then sprint back from dungeon runs to feed, shelter, and sermonize so your cult powers up combat.
- marry followers, kiss them for loyalty, then sacrifice or resurrect them later when it suits your cult.
- revive a dead follower, gift them a longer lifespan, promote them into leadership, then imprison and re-educate them when they resist.
- run fast combat dungeons where you swap weapons and curses on the fly, stack tarot-style buffs, and learn bosses' patterns to topple four bishops.
6The Outlast Trials - Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?
Mar 5, 2024
In this game, you can…
- get hit with hallucinogenic chemicals and start seeing a skeleton in a black suit while you're still being hunted.
- run twisted objectives like destroying evidence, electrocuting the snitch, refueling generators, and hauling boxes through hostile maps.
- roam a shared hub between trials, decorate your room, and challenge people to chess or arm wrestling.
- hide in lockers or trash bins, hold your breath, and wait out patrols.
- inspect doors for wire traps, then sprint for another exit mid-chase when the one you picked is rigged.
- wear night-vision goggles that run on batteries, then hunt for a recharge while the lights go out.
- revive teammates through chaos, with one person repeatedly pulling the whole run back from collapse.
- bring different tools to heal, see through walls, blind enemies, stun them, or pop locks so the team can improvise roles.
7Noita - Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Oct 15, 2020
In this game, you can…
- swap positions with something you launched so far away it clips out of reality, and end up somewhere it shouldn't exist.
- trigger a chain reaction where electricity detonates a hanging bomb, the blast becomes gas, the gas ignites, and the whole oil pool erupts.
- turn an eldritch monster into a sheep, then teleport it into lava — or just dig a tunnel and ignore it.
- turn a harmless-looking spell into a face-level explosion or a portal to a tentacle realm.
- eat weird fungus, vomit, and watch the vomit transform into lava.
- build a wand that spawns a lava star with its own gravity and melts you instantly.
- kick objects like minecarts into enemies and use the physics as your weapon.
- get turned into a sheep by a pink potion even after you can vaporize mountains and turn ground into gold.
8South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ - From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
Mar 3, 2014
In this game, you can…
- summon Jesus from heaven to mow down Nazi zombies with an M16
- shrink down, crawl through Mr. Slave's rectum as a gnome, disable a WMD, dodge bodily fluids, and turn on vibrators to progress
- walk into Canada and suddenly play through an 8-bit RPG-style section
- use fart magic as a combat spell and an overworld tool for puzzles and secrets
- get abducted and probed by aliens, then gain teleporting you can use to explore and bypass fights
- time button presses for perfect hits and blocks instead of just picking an attack and watching
- pick a class like Fighter, Mage, Thief, or Jew, and get a noticeably different playstyle and reactions
- walk through a fully recreated South Park, entering houses, rooms, and closets while characters keep treating you as the silent new kid
9Goat Simulator - Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Apr 1, 2014
In this game, you can…
- crash a garden party, set everyone on fire, drag them into the woods, and sacrifice them to Satan to become a demon goat.
- lick people and objects, then drag them around town on your tongue.
- unlock absurd transformations like angel goat, king goat, or a goat that summons peasant goats from the sky.
- do backflips while headbutting objects through windows for extra points.
- attach your tongue to a bike, leap over it while it dangles, then slam it for a bigger stunt combo.
- headbutt a gas station until it explodes.
- jump off a construction crane, grab onto a paraglider, and then rocket into the sky with an explosive jetpack.
- meet aliens, call them down, and get abducted.
10Besiege - Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Feb 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- stack millions of bombs under a rocket, set them off, and get launched kilometers into the air as burning debris rains down.
- build a self-stabilizing VTOL airship with 12 missiles, turrets, a cargo bay with doors, a cockpit view, and jet boost.
- build a catapult to launch a boulder, then watch the boulder launch the catapult and still win.
- build a spiked go-cart, then keep escalating into catapults, flying machines, and other siege contraptions.
- plant a bladed windmill on a post and let incoming birds fly into it.
- use hinge parts as tank tracks and roll a handmade tank across the battlefield.
- create a walking robot with cannon arms, a flamethrower mouth, and a helicopter head that still moves and fights.
- turn on god powers to ignite anything, drag machines around, switch to zero gravity, and make builds invincible for testing.
