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Darkwind cover art

Darkwind

Psychic Software · 2014-08-22

Steam

ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerRacingRPGStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Jul 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 05, 2014 (Mac)

Darkwind is a multiplayer online, simultaneous turn-based game of vehicular combat. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it involves physics-based tactical combat and deathracing, online leagues, cooperative wilderness scouting and looting, trading and camp-based crafting. Live and online since 2006!

3
playing now
52%
positive of 479 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Darkwind: War on Wheels is a turn-based racing and vehicle combat massively multiplayer online game for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X by Irish developer Sam Redfern. It is inspired by the tabletop game Car Wars and the Mad Max movies, but set in an original universe. Darkwind was opened to the public on May 4, 2007, after two years of development and been continually updated. It was re-released for Steam in 2014 as free-to-play.

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  • · Top 46% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.

Players online

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

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

Details

WindowsmacOSMulti-playerMMOCross-Platform MultiplayerIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing

Player tags

RPGSci-fiStrategyTacticalPerma DeathFree to PlayOnline Co-OpCombat RacingPost-apocalypticVehicular Combat

Census log

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

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