Fit check
Is Dark Days worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who want a top-down zombie shooter with scavenging and crafting
- Players who prefer rescue objectives and safe-house progression
- Action-game fans interested in optional lore collectibles and achievements
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a slow, low-combat survival experience may find the zombie waves and weapon-focused fights too action-heavy.
- Players wanting extensive role-playing depth may find the progression centered mainly on scavenging, crafting, rescue, and escape objectives.
- Players looking for multiplayer shooting may prefer a game built around cooperative sessions.
Our take on Dark Days
The store presentation foregrounds the island escape, survivor rescue, crafting, and broad weapon list, but the description gives less attention to the game's limited enemy roster: three named infected types. The core loop therefore appears centered on repeating scavenging, defense, and combat tasks.
What is Dark Days?
Dark Days is a top-down zombie survival shooter set on the infected island of Colbrook.
Playing as Carter, a lone hunter, the objective is to escape alive while rescuing survivors and securing safe houses. Exploration involves searching locations for supplies, defending against zombie waves, repairing barricades, and crafting weapons and items. Safe houses secured with survivors provide fast travel. Blueprints unlock recipes for medical packs, sticky bombs, lock picks, and other equipment. The arsenal includes handguns, assault rifles, shotguns, a crossbow, throwing knives, Molotov cocktails, mines, grenades, and melee weapons. Optional activities include collecting letters about the infection and completing achievements. Enemies include slow zombies, fast runners, and highly resistant zombie beasts.
How Dark Days plays
- 01Survivor Rescue
- Finding survivors and placing them in secured safe houses enables fast travel after barricades are repaired.
- 02Scavenging And Crafting
- Search locations for materials, find blueprints, and produce medical items, explosives, lock picks, and weapons.
- 03Varied Weapon Arsenal
- Combat includes firearms, a crossbow, throwing knives, Molotov cocktails, mines, grenades, and melee weapons.
- 04Zombie Enemy Types
- The island contains slow zombies, faster runners, and strong, resilient zombie beasts.
- 05Optional Activities
- Letters provide information about the infection, while achievements offer additional objectives.
Dark Days compared to similar games
Hentai Vs Furries is also a shooter with guns, but it uses a third-person perspective, offers five camera angles, and includes quests for unlocking skins and a separate pleasure mode. Dark Days instead focuses on top-down survival, scavenging, survivor rescue, safe houses, crafting, and escaping an infected island.
Dark Days: platforms & release
Is Dark Days worth it?
It is worth it if: players who want a top-down zombie shooter with scavenging and crafting. Skip it if: players seeking a slow, low-combat survival experience may find the zombie waves and weapon-focused fights too action-heavy.
Where can I download Dark Days?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Dark Days's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Dark Days on?
Windows only.
