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Darkway: Murder of King Mere

IM/MORTAL Studios · 2025-12-19

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Dec 19, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 19, 2025 (Mac)

The King Mere is dead. Once the leader of diplomacy in the Dog Empyre, now a bloodstain on snow. You are the Apprentice, sent by the Master Detective to the City of Ink, to uncover who really murdered the King at the edge of the world.

Darkway: Murder of King Mere is an Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG game released in 2025, priced at $7.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (96% of 83 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

97%
positive of 86 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–3.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 86 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420252026Week of 2025-12-20: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-10: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-24: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-01-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-31: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-28: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-25: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-08: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsPlayable without Timed InputDualShock Controller SupportSave AnytimeStereo SoundFamily Sharing

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