Dark Shadows - Army of Evil

Dark Shadows - Army of Evil

Skip · Shooter · 2014

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $0.74.

Cost per hourS
$0.11/hr
Reviews▼
35% of 319
Genre rank
Top 100% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
Reviews hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
6.8h

Price and sales

Sales
117 on record
Typical cut
89% off
Steam low
$0.49 October 2020
Sale every
38d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was October 2020. It has been discounted 117 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 89 percent, about 5 weeks apart.

It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide ($29.99, scores 54) outscores it, and so does Lichdom: Battlemage ($9.99, scores 2). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.11/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $0.73/hr
Holding it back
Reviews35% of 319 reviews, scored as 40%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 56 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Dark Shadows - Army of Evil is a first-person fantasy action game developed by Burian Media Enterprises and published by Volens Nolens Games. The game draws inspiration from early 3D dungeon crawlers and classic hack-and-slash adventures, presenting a straightforward medieval story driven by combat and exploration. Built as a small independent project, it attempts to recreate the atmosphere of older fantasy action...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 10hMar 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.7hJan 2024Read on Steam
I don't know why someone saw this, played it, and said, "Yeah, this is a completed product. We did well!" It's an unfinished, buggy, broken, dull, wannabe RPG. Avoid.
FeattSNot recommendedafter 1.5hFeb 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Dark Shadows - Army of Evil takes you back to September 1362. A horde of monsters has been ravaging the country like a plague of locusts for over a year. While you were away doing your knightly duties of catching a runaway horse, the monsters stormed the castle, injured the king, and kidnapped Katarina, the love of your life.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon 1300 / NVIDIA GeForce 6600, 2.2 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Dark Shadows - Army of Evil scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/280640/dark-shadows-army-of-evil
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Reviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperBurian Media Enterprises
PublisherVolens Nolens Games
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate