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Dark and Darker

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Dark and Darker
Dark and Darker cover
Developers
Ironmace
Engines
Unreal Engine 5
Release dates
Windows Early access
Taxonomy
Monetization Free-to-play
Microtransactions Boost, Currency
Modes Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, RPG
Themes Fantasy

Dark and Darker is a multiplayer first-person action and RPG game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Official Discord
Official Twitter

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows
Developer website
Windows

Playtests

The developers open free playtests to the public usually during steam events.

Monetization

Type Notes
Free-to-play The game is free to play with microtransactions

Microtransactions

Type Notes
Boost different species and account legendary status can be bought with premium currency
Currency Premium currency can be bought for real money
Infinite spend There doesn't seem to be a limit on the amount of currency you can buy
Player trading There appears to be a trading component only accessible 72 hours after gaining legendary status


Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\DungeonCrawler\Saved\Config\Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2016590/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2016590/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Player data reset after playtests.

Video

Graphics Settings
Graphics Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Supported natively. Hor+ FOV.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Low, Medium, High, Epic, and FXAA / TAA as anti-aliasing options.
High-fidelity upscaling
FSR 2.0, DLSS 3.1, XeSS 1.3, TAAU, TSR
Everything except TAAU is limited to Performance and Quality presets, and FSR isn't available on an RX 590[1]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
FPS Slider is used.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
In-game FPS slider goes 30-400, Menu FPS slider goes 30-100.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Can be forced from config, see here.
Ray tracing (RT)
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 5 page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Two buttons are mappable per action
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Invert X-axis also available
Controller
Controller support
Menus are partially navigatable and offer prompts whenever available, gameplay works fine but uses keyboard prompts.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Maps keyboard keys.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Menu only
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Total, Effect, and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
toggleable
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
16 Versus

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12 default is 12,
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OGG Vorbis, Wwise, XAudio2
Multiplayer Epic Online Services

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10, 11
Processor (CPU) 3.0 GHz Quad Core CPU
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB of video
Radeon RX 580 with 4GB of video
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Mine18 on 2024-07-07
    Tested on an rx 590, TSR and XeSS and TAAU are available but not FSR.