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Gaua Games · Published by Gaua Games
Positive — 100% positive (21 reviews)
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Help little Darby escape from his castle and reclaim his land from the Demon King's claws in this challenging 2d precision platformer. Explore every hidden corner, use your vampiric powers wisely and face the Demon King to get your home back before your family returns from holiday.
Action, Adventure, Indie · More free games
Embark on a thrilling adventure as you navigate through Darby Is Here Forever’s intricate 2D levels. Use your unique vampire abilities to overcome obstacles and confront the Demon King, all while helping Darby reclaim his lost land before his family returns.
About this game
Darby Is Here Forever is an adventurous and challenging platformer where you control a little vampire named Darby who has escaped from what was his home, and seeks to reclaim it from the claws of the Demon King, a selfish and greedy guy who has no problem about conquering, hunting or polluting to fill his pockets with gold.
Help Darby to overcome the dangers of his journey and reclaim his home!
Jump, die, repeat
Every death is a step towards perfection; learn from your environment, master Darby's skills and don't worry about the traps and enemies around you, you are immortal and there are plenty of coffins to respawn in.
The Blood Platform
Darby has a one-of-a-kind ability, he is able to create a platform made of blood while is in the air, this ability will be crucial not only for completing platforming challenges where there are empty gaps, but also to reach the farthest places or ease the experience when challenges turns impossible, there is more than one way to overcome challenges!
Nocturnal environments
Escaping from the castle is just the beginning, explore locations full of puzzles, enemies and platforms in more than 200 screens.
The retro visual style goes with every moment of this journey, all drawn with care, inspired by a mix of pixelated styles.
Other features
New Game + mode as a free update, a new game to unlock with options that allows you to customize the next game by preference, you choose how difficult the next experience will be.
Manage the blood you collect on your journey to unlock coffins and respawn near those areas that are so difficult to overcome.
Darby has learned to jump very high and glide, but beware, creating a platform of blood will leave him weak and unable to use any more abilities.
Epic encounters against Bosses will test you to the limit.
Retro music and sounds to match the adventure.
Darby's story will make you cry your eyes out.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 8 or 10
- Processor: Intel 1.60GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Recommended
- OS *: Windows 8 or 10
- Processor: Intel Core 3.10GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Bug fixes
- Dying for the 1st time in the forest was making the character to teleport mid map progress. - Delumber was ocasionally stopping working in middle air. - Now text suports acents - Minor changes in forest levelRead full article on Community Announcements (Gaua Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Minor fixes
These are some of the changes done for this update - Delumber Boss battle camera ofsett fix. - Some sfx were not working with the sfx volume slider. - Forest level texture fix. - Forest level layer order bug fix. And many more...Read full article on Community Announcements (Gaua Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Delumber 2nd phase nerf + sfx volume regulation
We knew that the 2nd phase of Delumber was too difficult but we didnt have time to nerf it before the launch. We also detected that some sfx and ost themes were to loud comparing to other effects so we lowered them. We hope this changes make the game more enjoyable! -Gaua Games TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (Gaua Games)AnnouncementsOfficial
NEW RELEASE DATE FOR DARBY IS HERE FOREVER
Greetings, creatures of the night,As some of you can imagine, we’ve decided to move the release date of Darby Is Here Forever to 2026. Everyday, life makes you choose between work, personal responsibilities and your hobbies. Unfortunately, working on Darby Is Here Forever is still a hobby for us, and we can’t allow ourselves to work in our hobby as much as we wish.This doesn’t mean we won’t finish the game, the development is still ongoing, but at a different rate. Anyway, we received feedback from the Demo and all support and kind words are appreciated, thank you very much, it’s really helpful. If you guys have any question about the game or the development, please contact with us via mail (gauagames.contact@gmail.com)Regards, Gaua GamesRead full article on Community Announcements (Gaua Games)AnnouncementsOfficial
JUMPING INTO DARBY’S DEVELOPMENT
Greetings, creatures of the night, The team Darby (a.k.a Gaua Games) welcome you to Darby Is Here Forever with a (very) little resume of this year. Since June 2024 we’ve been raising Darby, giving him love and affection, trying to design a cool, engaging experience with just a few tools and our spare time, so we wanted to inform you about how it has been going.2024 was the year of planning, we were focused on Darby’s main mechanics feeling, as we progressed with other secondary elements and the design of a Demo level for Itch.io, where the game was shown for first time. On February 2025, we polished content at the same time we brought new elements, making a cool Demo that fulfil our standards. The demo was launched with high expectations, but despite of the that, it also opened many doors for us. The next months until June have been rough, we went through what is called “the valley of despair”; a phase of the development where the designs were been iterated, new systems were under construction and the artists were giving shape to every element, but the content wasn’t implemented yet in a final, polished level. If you want to see what we’re talking about, stay tunned for the next news 😉 Since June, the design of new levels started as well as the implementation of elements and polishing. We had the opportunity to show one of the playable levels in the BCN Game Fest too, where we received a lot of feedback from players. What will bring us the next months? For sure, a lot of work, and we will take it with positivity! So, again, stay tunned if you want to know more 😉And that’s all for now, thank you for all the support and feedback received, we are very grateful for that!Read full article on Community Announcements (Gaua Games)
