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Darkness Ahead

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App ID 547710
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher SA Industry
Franchise SA Industry
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 28928011
Last Record Update 11 May 2025 – 18:33:12 UTC ()
Release Date 2 November 2016 – 16:21:48 UTC ()
❓ 51.12%
101 reviews
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In-Game

Darkness Ahead is an adventure game about a man searching for his little brother. A plateau between mountains holds a dark secret about its past. You have to stay alive and collect everything you need to complete your quest.

Additional Information

Developer Useless Machines
metacritic_name Darkness Ahead
ReleaseState released
Publisher SA Industry
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urlhttp://store.steampowered.com//eula/547710_eula_0
Store Release Date 2 November 2016 – 16:21:57 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Adventure (25)
Store Genres Adventure (25), Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 2 November 2016 – 16:21:48 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 10 August 2020 – 10:21:49 UTC () (1597054909)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, NVIDIA_APEX SDK, NVIDIA_PhysX SDK, Ogg SDK, OpenVR SDK, Vorbis SDK
First seen on SteamDB 21 October 2016 – 18:37:16 UTC (), in changelist #2371653

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes

Tags

🌱 Indie 🗺️ Adventure 😱 Horror 🙌 First-Person 😨 Dark 📚 Story Rich 🗺 Exploration 🌫 Atmospheric 🚶 Walking Simulator 🧩 Puzzle 👤 Singleplayer 🤏 Short 🤫 Mystery

Categories

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Assets

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Trailers
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Steam charts

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  • 0 players right now
  • 2 24-hour peak
  • 2,814 all-time peak 24 November 2017
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Store data

  • 244 followers
  • 52 positive reviews
  • 49 negative reviews
  • 51.49% positive reviews

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  • 0 24-hour peak
  • 52 all-time peak
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  • ❓ Mixed
  • 51.12% SteamDB Rating
  • 52 51.5% positive reviews
  • 49 48.5% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
2 November 2016 – 16:21 Steam Release -
28 April 2017 – 11:00 ⇄ Indiegala: Friday Special Bundle #49 -

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Darkness Ahead had an all-time peak of 2814 concurrent players on 24 November 2017.

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