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Darklands

MPS Labs · Ziggurat · 2014-10-17

SteamGOG

AdventureRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: 1992 (DOS), Oct 17, 2014 (Linux), Oct 17, 2014 (Mac), Oct 17, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Deep in the twilight of the Black Forest, you and your companions crouch before the robber-knight's tower. Hans, the alchemist, places his mysterious potion by the door. Ebhard the friar implores Saint Dunstan to bless your weapons and armor. And you and Gretchen grip naked long swords, praying your plate mail won't squeak.

Darklands is an Adventure and RPG game released in 2014, priced at $6.99, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 244 reviews).

2
playing now
90%
positive of 244 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

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

Darklands is a historical fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1992 for MS-DOS. The game is set in the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th century. While the geographic setting is historically accurate, the game features many supernatural elements.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 63% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 28,752 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.1k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 244 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$6.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 82 of 140 observed days · $6.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720152026Week of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 04:00 — 4 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.692015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-09-04 — best price $0.692016-02-26 — best price $1.742016-07-07 — best price $6.432016-11-22 — best price $1.742017-04-24 — best price $5.992017-09-18 — best price $6.992018-01-05 — best price $6.992018-06-22 — best price $1.742018-10-30 — best price $1.742019-02-11 — best price $6.992019-06-01 — best price $6.992019-10-07 — best price $1.742020-05-04 — best price $6.992021-01-07 — best price $5.132021-02-25 — best price $6.992021-04-12 — best price $4.682021-06-12 — best price $5.132021-10-21 — best price $4.542022-01-27 — best price $4.542022-05-27 — best price $4.542022-11-08 — best price $6.192023-03-16 — best price $4.542023-07-10 — best price $6.992023-11-22 — best price $4.542024-02-22 — best price $6.992024-06-04 — best price $6.992024-09-10 — best price $6.992024-12-02 — best price $6.992025-04-04 — best price $6.192025-07-17 — best price $2.792025-09-12 — best price $2.792025-11-09 — best price $6.362026-02-02 — best price $6.992026-05-09 — best price $6.992026-08-01 — best price $1.752026-09-16 — best price $1.752026-10-11 — best price $6.992026-10-14 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

193272026-06-01 — 148 pageviews2026-06-05 — 38 pageviews2026-06-09 — 36 pageviews2026-06-13 — 36 pageviews2026-06-17 — 36 pageviews2026-06-21 — 41 pageviews2026-06-25 — 40 pageviews2026-06-29 — 148 pageviews2026-07-03 — 118 pageviews2026-07-07 — 91 pageviews2026-07-11 — 47 pageviews2026-07-15 — 47 pageviews2026-07-19 — 46 pageviews2026-07-23 — 57 pageviews2026-07-27 — 42 pageviews2026-07-31 — 38 pageviews2026-08-04 — 55 pageviews2026-08-08 — 38 pageviews2026-08-12 — 62 pageviews2026-08-16 — 41 pageviews2026-08-20 — 49 pageviews2026-08-24 — 55 pageviews2026-08-28 — 41 pageviews2026-09-01 — 57 pageviews2026-09-05 — 38 pageviews2026-09-09 — 37 pageviews2026-09-13 — 37 pageviews2026-09-17 — 27 pageviews2026-09-21 — 33 pageviews2026-09-25 — 36 pageviews2026-09-29 — 76 pageviews2026-10-03 — 34 pageviews2026-10-07 — 38 pageviews2026-10-11 — 37 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

RPGRetro1990'sClassicSandboxMedievalAdventureHistoricalOld SchoolOpen World

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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