
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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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): 0/day in the week to Sep 3 → 0.14/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 21 → 0.2/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 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
In 1985 England, private investigator Miles Windham follows a lead on the mysterious death of his daughter that takes him to Velvet Island. But once he arrives on the island, he soon realizes that the residents are behaving strangely. In fact, there is a growing hostility towards the investigator that feels as though it is becoming stronger by the minute. It doesn't take long until the situation escalates and Miles finds himself in a struggle for his own survival.
Dead of Darkness is a survival-horror action-adventure with cosmic horror influences.
Complex, multi-layered narrative. Meet more than 15 characters over the course of the game - each with their own story that revolves around the terrible secrets of Velvet Island.
Challenging survival-horror. Resources are scarce, your inventory is limited, and danger lurks around every corner. Plan your routes carefully if you want to survive.
Intense hallucinations. Each enemy encounter takes a toll on your mental state. The lower your mental state, the stronger the hallucinations you will experience - some will even blur the distinction between reality and fiction.
Relentless enemies. 13 different enemies are hungry for your flesh, and some of them will stalk you relentlessly. Fight them, run from them, or use your wits to outsmart them.
Become a detective. Search your environment, inspect items and read documents in order to unlock clues. Use these clues to reveal hidden troves or unlock secret passageways.
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $15.99 | 225reviews | 87% | — | $86.8K |
| $10.39−35% | 224ratings | 94% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
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Reviews
Themes across 49 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
At firs I wasn't expecting much from the game, but don't let the pixel graphic fools you, it has good horror atmosphere and a nice story to keep you up until you finish the game. all puzzles in the game require common sense to be solved.
Great game we got right here. A 2D survival horror mostly on the side of classic RE games but longer, better characters, a more complex story and pretty good VA performances for the most part. Pros: 1) Pretty good sprite art. 2) Great VAs. 3) Good story that made me want more. I wanna play the sequel. 4) Ammo scarsity is a more serious aspect than in the classic RE games, you need to avoid as many enemies as possible, though sometimes you must eliminate some of them (besides bosses). 5) Pretty good length. Some RE fans may argue this game is too long for the genre but I preffer it this way. 6) Pretty good characters. Cons: 1) The knife worns out. Yeah, the worst weapon in the game needs to be repaired. Now, you're able to use it at 0% but its damage decreases drastically. 2) The voices are really loud when compared to everyother sound source. 3) If you use a controller (I used a PS5 one) you must use the left analog stick to move, 'cause the D-Pad is reserved for quick switching of weapons. 4) Most bosses are rather boring, you just run un circles to avoid their attacks, shoot and repeat until they die. 5) Sometimes it could use an indicator on the map about where the main objective is, IIRC RE1 had something simple like that. 6) Sometimes you can get softlocked for some bosses if you don't have enough ammo, and even against certain non-boss enemies 'cause they can murder you before you can even use the knife on them.
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Languages: English*, German, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Russian*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 49 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Classic survival horror
So far not enjoying it. The gameplay is really stiff even for old survival horror standards and moving around the main takes forever. It's also nasty that I get cheap-shots from enemies that I didn't even know they were there or without time to react. The mechanic where we are being messed with by the game(when our sanity is low or whatever it's called here) couldn't been fun but it takes so long and we lose control of the character (mostly black screens with text) whole I can hear enemies coming. It's very annoying more annoying than nerve racking which I assume was the idea behind it. The strongest points are definitely the story, writing and voice acting. Great job on that
The art isn't very good, the voice actors aren't very good - the game isn't very good. The cistern, the "trapped in your mind" section, the overall plot and writing. Not great.
survival horror in pixel art veramente ben fatto!!!
This game is AMAZING. It's like a Resident Evil 2 in pixel art. It's not perfect (I hate the lantern with all my heart), but it has a great gameplay, a great story and a satisfying ending. I really hope that the story will continue. Try this out; you will not be disappointed
前期总体游戏体验不错,女主下水道结束之后劝退了。存档点和异次元箱距离很远,黑暗环境看不清楚怪,怪物一击必杀,每次复活跑半天,格子又不够用,一次次挂然后来来回回跑那点路,作者这么戏耍玩家是否心理疾病?
This game is what the old school gamers are looking for. I really thank you for this amazing piece of work. It's been 4 hours. And I'm really enjoying every second of it. Mansion, musics, sounds, feelings everything is just perfect. This game carries the spirit of classic Resident Evil 1-2-3 with a top down camera angle with pixel graphics. I won't forget this game. Deep thanks for the old but gold feelings of the retro horror classic games.
A truly harrowing pixel art horror adventure with a surprising amount of difficulty. Not without its faults (certain instant-death enemies or sections were a bit frustrating), but everything else was so engrossing that it's hard to view the game too negatively for them. I would love to play more games in this setting.
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