Darkout
Skip · Action · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 25.7h 33h to 100%
- Value
- $0.39/hr
- Reviews
- 48% of 880 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2659 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Crashed and alone on a world mankind tried to leave behind, Darkout challenges players to survive on Illuna, in harsh, procedurally generated biomes, utilizing the game’s sandbox features to build shelters, craft weapons, and research new technologies.You are not alone.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 380 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Breathedge ($2.49, scores 62) outscores it, and so does Crea ($14.99, scores 30). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Darkout
Inside the two-hour refund window, 23 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
49% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
As I reinstalled darkout once again, as I really enjoyed playing it from time to time, I found it's now effectively broken. The graphic doesn't show raw ressources (coal, copper ore, iron ore, etc) in the ground anymore. You get the tooltip, if the cursor hovers right over it, but its otherwise invisible, making the game unplayable with rare ressources unfindable.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
As other reviews have pointed out, this game hasn't received an update since December 2014 and was "released" in an unfinished state. Because of that last part I cannot recommend purchasing this game. That's a damn shame too because I like this game. The mechanics are interesting, it's an interesting sci-fi take on the Terraria style of games, and, to use terms I rarely ever use and mean it, this game is hauntingly...
Not a bad game however it is poorly optimized and drops frames a lot. I also believe the game is unfinished with incomplete animations. Would have been a recommend if finished and polished.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Darkout scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/257050/darkoutReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.