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Dark and Darker

IRONMACE · 2024-06-07

Steam

ActionRPGFree To PlayEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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.

Dark and Darker is an Action, RPG, Free To Play, and Early Access game released in 2024, priced at free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (65% of 85127 reviews).

65%
positive of 86k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
4,137
twitch viewers (latest)
2068.5
viewers/channel (concentration)
70/100
IGDB user rating (75 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (181 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
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

Healthy
  • · 6,909 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~864/week).
  • · Review velocity down 34% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (30,845 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-10-05

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: 669 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 379 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 207 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 1,479 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

654452026-05-29 — 130 pageviews2026-06-02 — 97 pageviews2026-06-06 — 115 pageviews2026-06-10 — 77 pageviews2026-06-14 — 68 pageviews2026-06-18 — 86 pageviews2026-06-22 — 79 pageviews2026-06-26 — 71 pageviews2026-06-30 — 72 pageviews2026-07-04 — 52 pageviews2026-07-08 — 58 pageviews2026-07-12 — 63 pageviews2026-07-16 — 83 pageviews2026-07-20 — 94 pageviews2026-07-24 — 79 pageviews2026-07-28 — 654 pageviews2026-08-01 — 192 pageviews2026-08-05 — 105 pageviews2026-08-09 — 97 pageviews2026-08-13 — 73 pageviews2026-08-17 — 81 pageviews2026-08-21 — 91 pageviews2026-08-25 — 80 pageviews2026-08-29 — 61 pageviews2026-09-02 — 80 pageviews2026-09-06 — 66 pageviews2026-09-10 — 70 pageviews2026-09-14 — 72 pageviews2026-09-18 — 56 pageviews2026-09-22 — 58 pageviews2026-09-26 — 64 pageviews2026-09-30 — 86 pageviews2026-10-04 — 51 pageviews2026-10-07 — 112 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

15k2.2k2026-10-06 21:12 — 4,771 viewers2026-10-07 04:12 — 2,588 viewers2026-10-09 21:12 — 14,598 viewers2026-10-09 23:12 — 11,567 viewers2026-10-10 01:12 — 4,964 viewers2026-10-10 03:12 — 3,756 viewers2026-10-10 05:12 — 3,199 viewers2026-10-10 07:12 — 3,183 viewers2026-10-10 09:12 — 2,282 viewers2026-10-10 12:12 — 2,841 viewers2026-10-10 15:12 — 4,034 viewers2026-10-10 18:12 — 4,449 viewers2026-10-10 20:12 — 6,846 viewers2026-10-10 22:12 — 6,350 viewers2026-10-11 02:12 — 2,465 viewers2026-10-12 00:12 — 5,341 viewers2026-10-12 02:12 — 4,528 viewers2026-10-12 17:12 — 3,490 viewers2026-10-13 00:12 — 3,489 viewers2026-10-13 02:12 — 2,884 viewers2026-10-14 22:12 — 4,137 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2024-12-05, latest 2026-07-17 (Steam store data)

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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