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Dark and Darker

An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.

Developer
IRONMACE
Publisher
IRONMACE
Franchise
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Release date
Jun 7, 2024
Store page updated
Jul 10, 2026
Price
Free · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

50.8/ 100

Based on 345 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😐 Mixed 67% of 651
All time 😐 Mixed 65% of 85,607
“fun game solo or with friends, pretty damn fun”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.79
Progression -1.64

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Story & World
+1.34
World +2.92
“dark atmosphere and music create immersive experience of dread” (11)
Our group of friends takes cautious steps into a dark, gloomy Dungeon, where even spiders are afraid to weave their webs, and a torch illuminates our path to the exit... A couple more steps and - baamm - a trap kills our friend :( Now his soul is in our hands... We hear noise and screams - another group is trying to fight against skeletons and goblins, but they are dying in an unequal battle! My friend walks with me to the exit, but... it's the entrance to HELL! Where the price of his life is less than one gold coin, soaked in the blood of 100 heroes! But he still gives it to me so I can jump

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Content Volume
-1.04
Variety -1.50

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Visuals & Sound
+1.39

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +0.94

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Multiplayer
-0.93
Playing together +0.86
“loving the new PVE mode to play with son” (29)

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Fairness
-3.20
Balance -3.34
“wizard and ranger vastly overpowered; archer gutted compared to barbarian” (37)

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Tech & Ops
-3.25
Developer support -2.87
“developers lost direction, wasted goodwill with poor updates” (51)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
20%40%60%80%
Jun 2024Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 651 reviews, peak 33/day
02550
Aug 18Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 343 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English42%
  • Chinese14%
  • Russian14%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Spanish8%
  • Japanese5%
  • Other8%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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