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Dark Places cover art

Dark Places

Madbox Entertainment · 2019-04-09

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 09, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Dark Places is a psychological single-player game set in a surreal world filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. Solve puzzles and try to survive.

Dark Places is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2019, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 145 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 145 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 145 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2022-03-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320182026Week of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.002018-10-312026-07-092018-10-31 — best price $0.002019-06-10 — best price $2.992019-07-29 — best price $2.992019-11-01 — best price $0.892019-12-19 — best price $0.742020-03-17 — best price $0.502020-06-25 — best price $0.592020-10-06 — best price $0.592020-11-25 — best price $0.502021-01-28 — best price $0.502021-03-25 — best price $0.502021-06-24 — best price $0.502021-09-20 — best price $0.502021-11-26 — best price $0.502021-12-22 — best price $0.502022-03-29 — best price $0.492022-07-26 — best price $0.492022-10-25 — best price $0.492023-01-24 — best price $0.492023-05-01 — best price $0.492023-08-16 — best price $3.042023-11-21 — best price $0.742024-02-08 — best price $0.742024-05-14 — best price $0.742024-07-18 — best price $0.742024-10-28 — best price $0.642024-12-12 — best price $0.642025-03-13 — best price $0.642025-06-12 — best price $0.642025-11-13 — best price $0.742026-01-16 — best price $0.992026-06-25 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

9
achievements tracked
13.6%
earned "Oblivion"
10.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing2 DLC

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2018-10-24, latest 2018-11-20 (Steam store data)

Player tags

BloodIndieRetroActionHorrorPuzzleShooterViolentAdventureDifficult

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.