The Game Census
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Darknet

E McNeill · 2017-06-08

SteamPlayStation Store

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 07, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Mar 07, 2017 (PlayStation VR), Mar 28, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 08, 2014 (Android), TBD (Oculus Rift)

Darknet is a strategy/puzzle game in which you play as an elite hacker in the Net. Plug into cyberspace, using viruses, worms, and exploits to steal the data before your signal gets traced. Includes both VR and non-VR versions.

91%
positive of 128 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
83/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
4.30★
PlayStation Store rating (254 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 47,036 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.2k–7.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 128 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.94 at Steam (2022-07-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$4.942017-06-092026-01-052017-06-09 — best price $9.892017-10-26 — best price $9.892017-11-22 — best price $9.892017-12-21 — best price $7.492018-02-15 — best price $9.892018-04-19 — best price $7.492018-06-22 — best price $9.892018-09-20 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $14.992019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-02-11 — best price $14.992020-07-09 — best price $14.992021-12-01 — best price $14.992022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-07-25 — best price $14.992023-07-13 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-06-08 (Steam store data)

Player tags

VRIndiePuzzleSci-fiHackingStrategyTacticalCyberpunkDifficultFuturistic

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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