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Endless Dark

Little Light Studios, LLC · 2024-12-18

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 22, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 19, 2024 (Linux)

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.

99%
positive of 121 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 19 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 19,298 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 121 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161620232026Week of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Player tags

2DDark HumorManagementMinimalistRogue-likeRogue-liteSimulationStory RichAtmosphericConversation

Census log

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