The Game Census
Dark Hours: Prologue cover art

Dark Hours: Prologue

Piece of Cake studios · 2024-07-18

Steam

ActionAdventureFree To Play

Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

89%
positive of 6.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1,349 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~169/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 14,144 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
70270220242026Week of 2024-07-01: 702 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 146 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 588 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 320 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 396 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 534 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 189 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 6 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

19 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Turkish…

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.