Dark and Light
Open-world fantasy survival with creature taming and elemental magic
Snail Games USA · Released Jul 20, 2017 · Early Access
ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGSimulationEarly Access
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 52% of 12K
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 13
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 6 years ago
- Mar 28, 2020
What is Dark and Light?
An open-world fantasy survival RPG set on Archos, a satellite world where dark forces followed refugees from the shattered planet Gaia. You gather food and resources, build a home, tame creatures, and use elemental magic to survive harsh weather, dangerous nights, and eclipses.
For you if...
- +you enjoy gathering resources and building in open worlds
- +you want survival challenges from weather and nighttime threats
- +you prefer the option to play solo or cooperatively
Not for you if...
- −you prefer guided levels over open-world exploration
- −you dislike keeping track of food and water
What players say
52% of 11,837 reviews are positive
Players praise the creature taming and magic, and some enjoy playing alone or on servers they host themselves. The most common complaint is that development appears to have stopped while the game remains unfinished; players also report bugs.
Screenshots and trailer
Dark and Light system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 10
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 2500K
- Graphics
- GeForce GTX 960 or higher
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 50 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
- OS
- 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8, or Windows 10
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-5820k 6x 3.3 GHz
- Graphics
- GeForce GTX 1070 or higher
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 50 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 29
- Steam features
- Workshop, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, German, French.
Tags
- Open World
- Survival
- Massively Multiplayer
- RPG
- Sandbox
- Fantasy
- Adventure
- Magic
- MMORPG
- Early Access
- Open World Survival Craft
- Action
- Multiplayer
- Dragons
- Simulation
- Crafting
Recent updates
- Mar 28, 2020 · 2x Exp and 2x Harvest now until 04/06
- Nov 14, 2019 · Dark and Light Halloween Patch Ends
- Oct 26, 2019 · Dark and Light Halloween Patch
- Sep 19, 2019 · Dark and Light Patch 9/19
- Sep 5, 2019 · 09/05 - Character Loss Issues
1 DLC available.
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