Darkwood
BANGER · Roguelike · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.09/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 25,363
- Critics
- 80 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 18.3h
- To 100%
- 40.8h 2.2x the story
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 98 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 127 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 98 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. The nearest things to it, SUNLESS SEA ($18.99, scores 62) and We Happy Few ($59.99, scores 37), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Darkwood
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 2,675 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 18.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 41, 2.2 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
a bit punishing at first when learning the basics, but well worth the experience.
2 more reviews
For anyone who doesn't like horror but enjoys #vibes, I would definitely recommend trying Darkwood. Context: am scaredy cat who avoids horror at all costs, and this has become one of my favourite games of all time. Everything in Darkwood is in service to the atmosphere: story, quests, artwork (superbly creepy), sound design (some of the best I've ever seen, 11/10 and never let these people near a soundboard again...
Funny thing about the dark. You spend so long being afraid of what's out there that you never wonder what it's doing to you. Give it enough nights, and sooner or later, you realize the scariest thing in the room is you. Keep the light on.
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About the game
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (1 GB) / AMD Radeon HD 5770 (1 GB), 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Darkwood scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/274520/darkwoodReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.