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Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage

Stormling Studios · Iceberg Interactive · 2014-12-05

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In "The Dark Lineage" you re-take the role of police detective Howard Loreid, a man tormented by the paranormal happenings around him. Howard discovers that his own terrible past has some connection to the madness that is about to swallow him, yet again.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 271 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage is a 2010 first-person adventure horror thriller video game developed by Zoetrope Interactive and published by Iceberg Interactive for Windows. A sequel to Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, the game is part of a series of adventure games inspired by famous horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.

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  • · Top 50% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.8k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 271 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Fanatical (2021-10-26) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 31 of 47 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.66$1.652015-01-012026-08-142015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-05-18 — best price $8.492015-10-21 — best price $9.992016-05-30 — best price $9.992016-11-14 — best price $9.992017-07-21 — best price $9.992018-02-16 — best price $9.992018-08-31 — best price $9.992018-12-10 — best price $1.992019-03-14 — best price $1.992019-09-13 — best price $2.502020-01-13 — best price $1.992020-06-05 — best price $8.282020-08-07 — best price $8.992020-09-23 — best price $8.992020-11-19 — best price $2.002021-01-16 — best price $8.382021-03-08 — best price $8.382021-05-01 — best price $7.992021-06-15 — best price $7.342021-09-27 — best price $1.992021-12-04 — best price $9.992022-02-24 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $1.992022-11-01 — best price $9.992023-01-11 — best price $8.492023-06-08 — best price $1.992023-11-02 — best price $9.992024-03-04 — best price $1.992024-06-08 — best price $9.992024-10-09 — best price $1.992025-03-21 — best price $8.382025-10-24 — best price $8.382026-05-25 — best price $1.792026-08-14 — best price $8.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish

Player tags

IndieHorrorPuzzleAdventureDetectiveFirst-PersonLovecraftianPoint & ClickGreat SoundtrackPsychological Horror

Census log

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

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