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Dark Sector

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App ID 29900
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Digital Extremes
Supported Systems
Last Changenumber 31290246
Last Record Update 24 September 2025 – 18:08:26 UTC ()
Release Date 24 March 2009 – 18:30:00 UTC ()
😏 73.16%
3k reviews
21
In-Game
💥 Action 🔫 Third-Person Shooter 😖 Gore 🔫 Shooter 👤 Third Person

A third-person Action/Shooter that thrusts players into a sci-fi flavored nightmare scenario set in the post Cold War era.

Additional Information

Developer Digital Extremes
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gamedir Dark Sector
metacritic_name Dark Sector
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metacritic_score 66
NoServers Yes
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InstallScript 29900_install.vdf
Publisher Digital Extremes
Store Release Date 23 March 2009 – 07:00:00 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1)
Steam Release Date 24 March 2009 – 18:30:00 UTC ()
Original Release Date 23 March 2009 – 07:00:00 UTC () (1237791600)
Store Asset Modification Time 26 November 2024 – 19:26:38 UTC () (1732649198)
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Detected Technologies (?) NVIDIA_PhysX SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on SteamOS
  •  
  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Unsupported
  • test_timestamp: 6 August 2025 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 3698
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
First seen on SteamDB 20 March 2013 – 07:42:37 UTC (), in changelist #196282
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes Yes

Tags

💥 Action 🔫 Third-Person Shooter 😖 Gore 👤 Singleplayer 🔫 Shooter 👤 Third Person 👊 Violent 😱 Horror 🚀 Sci-fi 🕹️ Multiplayer 😓 Difficult 🤝 Co-op 🌫 Atmospheric 🛡️ Hack and Slash

Categories

Single-player Family Sharing Multi-player

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

Assets

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timestamp30 November 2024 – 18:53:57 UTC

Trailer 1729 ↴

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timestamp 12 November 2015 – 18:08:54 UTC

Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
29901 dark sector content 5.58 GiB 0 B
29902 FrenchDark Sector French 433 B 0 B

Total size on disk is 5.58 GiB and total download size is 0 B.

Total size on disk is 5.58 GiB and total download size is 0 B, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 3698
beta_branch 3698

Other

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