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Dark Sword: The Light of Ainn

MrDoth · 2025-02-22

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 22, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Dark Sword is a frenetic action game that mixes bullet-hell and hack-n-slash in the midst of a devastating and dark open world with a tragic backstory, where the player must immerse himself in order to defeat the powerful guardians that guard it.

Dark Sword: The Light of Ainn is an Action, Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2025, priced at $3.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 73 reviews).

0
playing now
95%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
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 down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
171720252026Week of 2025-02-22: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-31: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-19: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-11: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-22: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Completion

18
achievements tracked
24.2%
earned " Defeat Cathralon at the Dead Valley"
16.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

2DPvERPGActionShooterSwordplayAction RPGOpen WorldSouls-likeBullet Hell

Census log

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

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