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Is Dark Hours worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Small groups who want cooperative survival horror with shared objectives
- Stealth-game fans who enjoy evading monsters while managing security systems
- Players seeking repeatable heist scenarios with gear, factions, and customization
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for a primarily combat-focused game rather than stealth, puzzles, and escape planning
- Players who prefer short, fixed campaigns without progression, customization, or multiple difficulty levels
- People sensitive to flashing lights, which the game warns may affect those with photosensitive conditions
Our take on Dark Hours
The focus on cooperative survival and repeated heists comes at the expense of a straightforward power fantasy. Progress depends on managing danger, stealth, puzzles, and group decisions, while the horror setup keeps the player under pressure rather than offering constant control.
What is Dark Hours?
Dark Hours is a cooperative survival horror game for one to four players.
A robbery goes wrong when a supernatural force traps the crew inside the target building, turning the heist into a fight to escape. Players can explore five locations, including a museum, casino, power plant, auction house, and cruise ship. More than 50 tools support tasks such as hacking, scanning, surveillance, teleportation, and disabling threats. Missions include taking artifacts, destroying evidence, demolishing the building, and escaping with stolen valuables.
Eight monsters have distinct abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Teams solve puzzles, complete minigames, manage security systems, and decide whether to share or take loot. Three factions, over 50 gear items, 100 customization items, and four difficulty levels provide progression and variation.
How Dark Hours plays
- 01Four-player cooperation
- The game supports solo play or teams of up to four people working through heists and escape scenarios.
- 02Five heist locations
- Missions take place across an auction house, museum, casino, power plant, and cruise ship.
- 03Heist equipment
- More than 50 tools include hacking devices, EMPs, scanners, cameras, teleporters, and tasers.
- 04Monster variety
- Eight supernatural enemies use different abilities, strengths, and weaknesses.
- 05Faction progression
- Three mafia factions provide reputation progression and access to additional gear.
- 06Difficulty settings
- Four difficulty levels are available, including Nightmare Mode.
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Dark Hours: platforms & release
Is Dark Hours worth it?
It is worth it if: small groups who want cooperative survival horror with shared objectives. Skip it if: players looking for a primarily combat-focused game rather than stealth, puzzles, and escape planning.
Where can I download Dark Hours?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Dark Hours's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Dark Hours on?
Windows only.
