Darkstone

Darkstone

Steam Deck · unrated

Delphine Software · RPG · Sep 26, 2014

Worth it for the right player.

At $4.99. It has been as low as $0.99.

79%
Mostly Positive
593 player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 56 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 33 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 26 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 26 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Combat: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 593 player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
55% of themes are praise27% are divided18% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
The game itself isn't too bad, its like Diablo and other games like that, has some cool sound effects, dialogue is kinda bad but listenable.
56 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
the gameplay is entertaining, with a huge emphasis on micro, character progress rewarding, and the dark forests of Uma have such a character with an awesome atmosphere; it's just addicting.
33 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
One of Darkstone’s underrated features is its inclusion of multiplayer, offering co-op play that lets adventurers face its dungeons together.
26 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
The game itself isn't too bad, its like Diablo and other games like that, has some cool sound effects, dialogue is kinda bad but listenable.
15 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
G to toggle solo/co-op (if you're playing a singleplayer game with two characters...which I recommend cause even if you end up favoring one character over the other, the less-used one can be used as a mule to carry your ♥♥♥♥, which is really useful cause you can abuse the inventory to teleport objects from across the map lol).
10 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
xbox controller support?
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love6 themes
Story and characters56 reviews
Gameplay33 reviews
Multiplayer26 reviews
Audio15 reviews
Co-op10 reviews
Controls9 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Graphics62 reviews
74%
Interface21 reviews
67%
Difficulty8 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs26 reviews
58%
Combat19 reviews
68%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

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Currently $4.99. The lowest we've tracked is $0.99.

4 points recordedtoday · $4.99

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Mostly Positive
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