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Messy Sloth · Published by Messy Sloth
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Darkest Darkness is a roguelike deck-building game with extraction elements. Choose your identity and venture into a Lovecraftian town. Craft every card yourself—collect materials, build powerful cards, plan your route, or extract with your gathered materials to gain an edge in your next run.
Indie, Strategy, Casual · More free games
Venture into a terrifying Lovecraftian town as Darkest Darkness challenges you to craft and plan your way through each run, choosing your identity and gathering materials to outsmart the darkness.
About this game
Darkest Darkness is a roguelike deck-building game with extraction elements. Choose your identity and venture into a Lovecraftian town. Craft every card yourself—collect materials, build powerful cards, plan your route, or extract with your gathered materials to gain an edge in your next run.
Unique Custom Card Crafting
Each identity has different base attributes, and each gene effect provides a selection of card effects. Based on the card templates granted by your genes, combine chosen effects with templates to create a custom starting deck. As you progress, use effect perks collected during your run to arrange and combine different effects, crafting unique cards with powerful synergies.
Unique Tarot System
When defeating elite enemies, you choose a Tarot card for yourself and one for the enemy. Tarot cards apply special effects to their holders, and each Tarot card has different effects depending on whether it is upright or reversed. How you organize and pair Tarot cards between you and your opponent can be the key to victory or defeat.
Unique Extraction Mechanic
When the pressure of pushing forward mounts, finding an extraction point becomes the wiser choice. Use extraction points to bring collected resources out of the current run so you can continue to use them in your next game.
Explore Different Routes
Each district has its own unique district effects, and different routes determine what encounters lie ahead. Planning your path forward will be a true challenge.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Unknown
- Processor: Unknown
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Unknown
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NViDIA GeForce RTX 3060
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
BUG FIX PATCH071826
Fixed an issue where certain area effect can crash the game.Read full article on Community Announcements (nullptr)Patch NotesOfficial
Bug Fixes and Content Updates
Fixed issues where the game could crash in some situations. Adjusted certain effect mechanics.Read full article on Community Announcements (nullptr)AnnouncementsOfficial
Game crash issue fixes and content adjustments
The previous demo version suffered from severe crash issues. In order to fix this, we have refactored the vast majority of the game's code. The crash issues have now been alleviated, but as a result, previous game saves are no longer compatible. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused to all players.The following are the content adjustments in the current version:- Optimized the visual performance of some UI elements.- Optimized card descriptions.- Optimized the save structure, resulting in lower memory usage and faster loading times.- Significantly reduced the initial HP of enemies to alleviate the tedious repetitive operations caused by a single deck at the start of the game.- The number of enemies encountered after Twisted Level increases is no longer fixed. When Twisted Level is II, the number of enemies encountered will randomly range from 1 to 3, instead of being fixed at 3.-Adjusted the effects of some areas.- You can now hover your mouse over a region before entering it to view the corresponding area effect.Read full article on Community Announcements (nullptr)Patch NotesOfficial
BUG FIX 061626
Fixed crash on drawing in certain conditions.Fixed text error of effects in timer.Read full article on Community Announcements (nullptr)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Update 061526
1. Added a setting option to adjust screen brightness. 2. Added difficulty options. 3. Fixed an issue where certain enemies caused frame rate drops when at low health. 4. Fixed potential issues that could cause the game to crash. 5. Optimized the visual performance of certain special effects. 6. Optimized the results display for death, evacuation, and level completion. 7. Optimized enemy AI logic. 8. Optimized combat phase logic. 9. Optimized the triggering logic for various trigger effects. 10. Optimized the text descriptions of card effects. Starting from this version, demo progress will carry over to the full version.Read full article on Community Announcements (nullptr)
