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Dark and Darker

IRONMACE · 2024-06-07

Steam

ActionRPGFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jan 04, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.

65%
positive of 85k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
3,535
twitch viewers (latest)
70/100
IGDB user rating (75 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)
Dark and Darker is a multiplayer action role-playing game developed by Ironmace. Set in dark fantasy, the game was released into early access on August 7, 2023.

Trailer

Dark and Darker trailer thumbnail

Dark and Darker - Early Access Season 10 Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 6,815 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~852/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (30,845 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
22k22k20242026Week of 2024-06-01: 22,094 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8,751 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6,921 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2,866 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3,982 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,761 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2,843 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,042 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2,294 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3,081 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3,183 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 973 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2,153 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,023 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2,135 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,302 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,337 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 669 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,104 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 857 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1,424 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 936 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1,089 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1,549 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 670 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,954 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 546 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,032 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 495 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 470 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 698 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 531 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 807 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 795 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 675 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 324 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 418 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 279 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 505 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 315 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 541 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 480 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 242 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 496 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 318 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 653 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 514 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 478 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 282 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 627 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 368 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 471 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 280 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opIn-App PurchasesPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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