Darkwood
Darkwood is a unforgiving survival horror with a procedurally generated, open world. By blending RPG, roguelike and adventure elements together with a challenging difficulty, Darkwood aims to please players…
Darkwood is an adventure developed by Acid Wizard Studio, released 17 August 2017 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $1.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Darkwood is
Darkwood is an adventure game developed by Acid Wizard Studio and released in 2017. It was published by Crunching Koalas. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Darkwood unfolds in a mysterious, ever-expanding forest somewhere in the Soviet Bloc during the late 1980s, where the surrounding land has been swallowed and its people left trapped. A strange plague festers among the survivors, twisting many into monstrous, mindless things, while the few remaining outsiders cling to scattered hideouts. The player takes the role of the Stranger, a man desperate to find a way out and searching for a stolen key that promises passage through an underground escape route. By day he scavenges the woods for supplies and clues, and by night he barricades himself in and fights to survive until dawn, all while the choices he makes shape the fates of the forest's…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Darkwood holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 91 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.99, that works out to about $0.13 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i3-2100 (dual-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X2 565 (dual-core), 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 5770 (1 GB). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.99 at Steam, 90% below its usual price. Across the 3 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $3.99 — a spread of $2.00 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Darkwood launched on 17 August 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Darkwood yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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