DARQ: Complete Edition
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$5.99BANGER
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $9.52/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 4870, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
DARQ tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and decipher the meaning of the dream.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.59. That was September 2021. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $5.99 BANGER line 21 times.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Little Nightmares ($4.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Lucius ($9.99, scores 52).
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 5 of the 446 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 754 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
2.1 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
44% start to 44% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 18:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Bought this after watching Natsuki Hanae play it and ended up having a great time with it. The game has a really unique horror atmosphere and some interesting puzzle design. Quite a few achievements also require fast reactions, and failing means replaying the entire chapter, which can be a little annoying. Still, once you know the route, a run only takes about 10 to 15 minutes, so it's not a big issue. With the two...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DARQ: Complete Edition scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/433550/darq-complete-editionReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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