Extraction dungeon crawler Dark and Darker is back on Steam.
If you missed all the drama, Dark and Darker got booted off of Steam in 2023 after Nexon initiated a legal challenge, claiming ex-employees at Dark and Darker developer Ironmace improperly used work they’d originally done for Nexon.
After that, Dark and Darker wound up releasing in its own standalone client, and then in March we heard it was coming to the Epic Games Store. At Summer Game Fest today, Ironmace announced that Dark and Darker is now available, and is officially free to play, on both Steam and Epic.
“We wanted to offer a big new feature to introduce Dark and Darker to more players as we head into the new season on June 7,” the studio said about the free-to-play transition.
Along with the return to Steam, Ironmace also announced a major new content update including a new map called Ice Abyss, a new Frost Wyvern boss, the Druid character class, and numerous quality-of-life upgrades. Full details on all the changes are available at darkanddarker.com.
The fantasy extraction brawler isn’t quite as novel as it was a couple years ago when its demo become an overnight hit, but I’m into any game that includes aggressive first-person lyre playing.
