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Dark Years cover art

Dark Years

RSK Entertainment · KPL · 2015-10-16

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 16, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Tehran is in the grip of fear following a series of grisly murders. Major Afshar has been tasked with finding those responsible.

Dark Years is an Action, Adventure, and Indie game released in 2015, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and Mostly Negative reviews (24% of 119 reviews).

0
playing now
24%
positive of 119 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.0k–7.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 119 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.07 at Dreamgame (2017-11-24) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120152026Week of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.072015-10-162022-07-072015-10-16 — best price $5.092015-11-09 — best price $14.992016-01-11 — best price $14.992016-03-14 — best price $14.992016-06-20 — best price $7.492016-07-07 — best price $12.882016-07-30 — best price $7.492016-09-19 — best price $14.992016-11-29 — best price $14.992017-01-07 — best price $14.992017-03-26 — best price $14.992017-06-22 — best price $1.492017-08-18 — best price $9.892017-11-20 — best price $1.492017-12-01 — best price $10.712018-02-12 — best price $1.492018-05-06 — best price $14.992018-06-26 — best price $2.252018-08-02 — best price $14.992018-11-06 — best price $14.992018-11-29 — best price $1.502019-01-10 — best price $14.992019-03-04 — best price $14.992019-07-17 — best price $1.502019-09-20 — best price $10.412019-11-09 — best price $10.712019-12-05 — best price $14.992020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-03-02 — best price $1.122020-07-02 — best price $1.122021-07-08 — best price $14.992022-02-03 — best price $14.992022-07-07 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

2
achievements tracked
23.1%
earned "Hello there"
22.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

NoirIndieActionAdventureDetective

Census log

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

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