Should you did not hear, one of many most-played video games on Steam final week was truly a demo. Right this moment would have been the top of the most recent alpha for PvP dungeon crawling extraction sport Darkish and Darker however the builders have prolonged the playtest one other three days.
“Because of the earlier downtime with the buying and selling publish, matchmaking, and misplaced playtime for gamers that had been falsely banned, we’ve determined to increase the playtest till Feb 16,” Ironmace says in a information publish. “We additionally plan to make use of the time to deal with points which might be inconveniencing gamers and to constantly enhance the sport.” Up to now, Ironmace has pushed out a complete of 5 hotfixes because the alpha started final week, together with numerous bug fixes and a nerf to wizard casting limits.
It is value giving a shot when you’re eager to be on the slicing fringe of what could possibly be a slightly widespread battle royale-adjacent sport when it will definitely launches. I’ve lengthy loved the PvP tactical thrill of royales and extractions video games, struggling although I do with my FPS abilities, and got here away from the demo fairly happy to report that Darkish and Darker proves extraction shooters do not truly should be shooters.
I spent a number of extra hours diving into the Forgotten Citadel with my friends over the weekend and I am undoubtedly experiencing a well-known PvP glee whether or not I am successful or dropping. Proximity chat can generally imply making pacts with different groups or simply rolling actual exhausting on an excessively cocky wizard carrying solely his underpants whereas slinging fireballs. You realize the sort. I nonetheless take challenge with the exfil portals solely taking one teammate at a day out of the dungeon, however the uncommon constraint has created some actually fringe of my seat moments whereas my crew watches our final member snag their nail-biting exit.
You may obtain the demo over on Steam and begin making your individual means by the dungeon halls till Thursday.
