Fit check
Is DARK worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want vampire-themed stealth with close-range combat
- RPG players who prefer skill development and dialogue choices
- Action players interested in dark, story-led environments
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a purely combat-focused game without stealth or dialogue decisions
- Players looking for open-ended exploration rather than a story-led progression through set environments
- Players who prefer realistic protagonists instead of supernatural vampire abilities
Our take on DARK
The defining premise is playing as a vampire who hunts through stealth, combining temporary invisibility and close-range attacks with experience-based character development.
What is DARK?
DARK combines stealth action with role-playing as a vampire hunter.
Players move through dark environments, ambush human guards and other vampires, and use melee attacks or supernatural abilities such as temporary invisibility. Experience earned in play supports character improvement and skill development, while dialogue choices contribute to the story. The campaign moves through locations including a city museum and a vampire lord’s hidden fortress inside a skyscraper. Enemies include police officers, security guards, and rival vampires. The game presents these environments and encounters with 3D cel-shaded visuals, framing the vampire’s hunt within a story where the hunter can also become prey.
How DARK plays
- 01Vampire abilities
- Skills include vanishing from sight, remaining unseen while stalking targets, and attacking at close range.
- 02Character progression
- Experience points support improvements to the protagonist and the development of new abilities.
- 03Dialogue choices
- Player-selected responses form part of the role-playing and story progression.
- 04Mixed enemy types
- Encounters include human police and guards as well as other vampires.
- 05Varied locations
- The campaign visits settings such as a city museum and a fortress concealed within a skyscraper.
DARK compared to similar games
DARK centers on a vampire protagonist using stealth, supernatural abilities, melee attacks, experience, and dialogue choices. Ghost of a Tale also combines action RPG elements with stealth, exploration, disguises, and conversations, but follows a mouse minstrel in an animal-populated medieval world. Blood West is a stealth FPS about an undead gunslinger in an eldritch Wild West setting, while DARK uses vampire abilities and close combat.
DARK: platforms & release
Is DARK worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want vampire-themed stealth with close-range combat. Skip it if: players seeking a purely combat-focused game without stealth or dialogue decisions.
Where can I download DARK?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens DARK's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is DARK on?
Windows only.
