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Dark Hours: Prologue

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App ID 3064370
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Piece of Cake studios, Kepler Ghost
Franchise Piece of Cake studios
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 31914027
Last Record Update 26 October 2025 – 23:19:49 UTC ()
Release Date 18 July 2024 – 15:56:32 UTC ()
😎 84.90%
4k reviews
396
In-Game
😱 Horror 👥 Online Co-Op 🎒 Survival Horror 😃 Funny 👥 Team-Based

Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

Additional Information

This game is excluded from Steam Family Sharing because: Free Game

Developer Piece of Cake studios
controller_support partial
ReleaseState released
Publisher Piece of Cake studios
IsFreeApp Yes
Exclude from family sharing (exfgls) 3 (Free Game)
Store Release Date 18 July 2024 – 15:56:32 UTC ()
osarch 64
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.com/invite/pieceofcake
https://www.facebook.com/DarkHoursTheGame
https://x.com/DarkHoursGame
https://www.youtube.com/c/PieceOfCakeStudios
Primary Genre Free to Play (37)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25), Free to Play (37)
Steam Release Date 18 July 2024 – 15:56:32 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 2 May 2025 – 07:34:51 UTC () (1746171291)
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Is free on the store? Yes
review_score 8
review_percentage 87
Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, Intel_OID SDK, Intel_oneTBB SDK, NVIDIA_Nsight_Aftermath SDK, Ogg SDK, Vorbis SDK, XAudio2 SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
  • This game requires manual configuration of graphics settings to perform well on Steam Deck
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
  • Note: This game does not default to external Bluetooth/USB controllers on Deck, and may require manually switching the active controller via the Quick Access Menu
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • Note: This game does not default to external Bluetooth/USB controllers on SteamOS, and may require manually switching the active controller via the Quick Access Menu
  •  
  • category: Playable
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 16 July 2025 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 16599817
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    requires_internet_for_setup0
    requires_internet_for_singleplayer0
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Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
controllertagwizard Yes
First seen on SteamDB 19 June 2024 – 13:44:12 UTC (), in changelist #24034735
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

19 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes Yes
French Yes Yes
German Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes
Turkish Yes Yes
Arabic Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes
Indonesian Yes Yes
Portuguese - Portugal Yes Yes
Spanish - Latin America Yes Yes
Thai Yes Yes
Ukrainian Yes Yes

Tags

😱 Horror 🕹️ Multiplayer 👥 Online Co-Op 🎒 Survival Horror 😃 Funny 👥 Team-Based 🕴 Psychological Horror 🗺 Exploration 🌫 Atmospheric 🤝 Co-op 🔀 Procedural Generation 🤫 Mystery 💸 Heist 🗺️ Adventure 🆓 Free to Play 🔮 Supernatural 💥 Action 😨 Dark 🥷 Stealth 🌲 PvE

Categories

Single-player Online Co-op Multi-player Co-op

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

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timestamp2 May 2025 – 07:35:04 UTC

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Steam charts

  • 396 players right now
  • 578 24-hour peak
  • 3,611 all-time peak 22 July 2024
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  • 😎 Very Positive
  • 84.90% SteamDB Rating
  • 4,098 87.9% positive reviews
  • 565 12.1% negative reviews

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How many players are playing Dark Hours: Prologue right now on Steam?

Steam player counter indicates there are currently 396 players live playing Dark Hours: Prologue on Steam.

Dark Hours: Prologue had an all-time peak of 3611 concurrent players on 22 July 2024.

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