
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.57/day in the week to Sep 11 → 0.43/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.86/day in the week to Jul 25 → 1.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder set in the boughs of a gigantic tree. Defend your leafy home against the perils of the creeping fog by managing light and flame.
Gather resources, research technologies, and send pioneers to explore the ruins of those who came before: discover their secrets and doom.
Set in a world of folk horror and creeping dread, DarkSwitch blends vertical city-building, tower defense, and exploration into a unique strategic experience.
Navigate a stunning, dangerous, dark fantasy world enriched by cinematic cutscenes and an atmospheric soundtrack from Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka!
Limited horizontal space requires a strategy; construct zip lines and stairways to connect your growing settlement layers.
Manage raw and processed resources, production facilities, and citizen morale, while fortifying defenses to withstand fog's creeping chaos.
Fog drives your citizens to madness and conceals stalking terrors.
Fight back by illuminating paths, crafting light-powered weapons, and mastering the raw energy of Solium.
Push back the gloom and save your nation.
Establish far-outposts, and excavate rare resources and artifacts.
Encounter strange and lethal creatures lurking in the fog.
Uncover the remnants of an ancient civilization.
Witness various dramatic storylines.
Navigate choices where even small actions can spiral into grim consequences.

Campaign Mode: 20+ hours of single-player, story-driven gameplay with quests, branching narratives, and high-stakes choices.
80+ unique buildings for full tree city customization.
11 resource types: balance raw and processed goods to survive.
4 technology levels to advance and unlock new growth possibilities.
200-meter-tall tree that serves as the foundation for your city.
Atmospheric soundtrack composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).
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Reviews
Themes across 154 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
За первые 50 дней ты изучаешь всё что есть, строишь весь флот, укомплектовываешь базу всем что можно и тупо ждёшь финальных 2-х дней за которые тебе вынесут всю оборону, но не снесут город. Слишком легко и имеется всего 1 сюжетная линия. С фростпанком и рядом не стояла по сложности.
Выглядит прикольно, но к сожалению не поддерживает геймпад (управление через клавиатуру и мышь)... Надеюсь поддержку контроллеров добавят в будущем. Буду ждац
If once a year Steam gave me the option to give one game a double thumbs down, this would be the game I would use it on.
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Languages: English*, German, Polish, Russian*, Simplified Chinese, French, Kazakh*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 154 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Un bon jeu mais qui souffre du rythme inégal de sa campagne. Graphiquement le jeu a une bonne ambiance qui colle a son lore, le jeu est plutôt détaillé et propose des design intéressants. Musicalement ça s'en sort bien, un peu plus de variété aurait été sympa mais sinon rien a reprocher a la qualité musicale et des bruitage. Niveau gameplay on retrouve les classiques du jeu du genre avec comme spécificité une gestion a la fois verticale et horizontale, en construisant sur l'arbre, sur les plateformes ou au sol. globalement c'est bien géré, même si on est parfois obligé de jouer avec la caméra pour avoir accès à ce qu'on veut. Niveau durée de vie, je dirais que c'est un peu le point noir du jeu. La campagne est captivante sur les 15 premières heures, mais deviens une corvée sur la fin. Une fois qu'on a tout développer, qu'on a une économie maximisée et qu'on a stockée tout ce dont on pourrais avoir besoin, on est juste en attente du déclenchement des évènement qui font avancer le scénario. assez frustrant. Conclusion : le jeu est bon mais l'expérience est minée par l'expérience passé la 15ène d'heure. j'ai fini par abandonner au bout de 5h a laisser le jeu défiler en vitesse maximale sans avoir grand chose a me mettre sous la dent. je met quand même une recommandation car je ne veux pas sanctionner le jeu, mais si je devais donner une note, ça serait 6.5/10 pas plus.
Fantasy Frostpunk.
Dark Switch was a really refreshing experience for me. It brings something new to the city-building genre, and best of all, it's a complete game instead of yet another Early Access title. It's great to finally get a finished game with a well-told story that keeps you engaged from start to finish. My only real complaint is that once you finish the story, that's it. I would have loved to see an endless mode or another game mode that lets you keep building and playing after the campaign ends. Overall, I highly recommend Dark Switch to anyone looking for a fresh take on the genre with a great story. It was a pleasant surprise, and I really hope the developers add an endless mode or more post-story content in the future.
Классный концепт с туманом и выживанием на дереве. Красивый дизайн и картинки. Круто, что есть озвучка, проще следить за историей. А на поздних этапах еще и экономика и квесты на глобальной карте есть
客观滴说,这款游戏是及格线以上的水准,要是冲着冰汽那种神作就不要入手了,要是冲着后期打怪解锁成就的话可以推荐,B站有视频,后期很爽,再有就是价格上能在便宜一丢丢就好了(手动狗头)
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音乐真的太顶了,山冈晃yyds!半夜戴着耳机玩,迷雾出来那一下给我吓一激灵,氛围感拉满。
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