Dark and Light
Skip · RPG · 2017 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $17.99.
- Length
- 36.4h
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 52% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 or higher, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.59, set in August 2020. 78 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 73 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. On the same math ARK: Survival Ascended ($44.99, scores 7) and Conan Exiles Enhanced ($39.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 529 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 2,075 reviews written there were positive, against 52 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
33% start to <1% 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
Players
35 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Such a great potential that got wasted...dead game unfortunately...dead game that could be the best of the best
Just got back into this game after a 4 or 5 year break. For a dead game that is nearly 10 years old it still holds up to scrutiny in terms of gameplay and content as the recent post to the Discussions testifies, A lot of the negative comments are aimed at the lack of continued development. But trust me there is an awful lit of game for the money as it is. And it is on offer at the moment making it a great grab.
It is a good game, but thats about where it ends for me, there is no feature to reset to start over when you want a new world, for those looking for mods the workshop is barren, overall i don't rate it highlt.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Dark and Light scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/529180/dark-and-lightThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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