Darwin's Demons

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App ID	572020
App Type	Game
Developer	Polymorphic Games
Publisher	Polymorphic Games, University of Idaho
Supported Systems	Windows macOS Linux
Technologies	Unity Engine
Last Changenumber	31046438
Last Record Update	10 September 2025 – 23:03:28 UTC ()
Release Date	13 February 2017 – 16:44:00 UTC ()

❓ 77.54%

49 reviews

In-Game

Darwin’s Demons is an arcade style space shooter in which you battle a population of evolving aliens. The alien’s morphology, fire type, and behaviors are all encoded by a digital genome. The aliens that are best able to shoot or evade you reproduce to make the next generation.

Additional Information

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

Developer

Polymorphic Games

metacritic_name

Darwin's Demons

controller_support

partial

community_visible_stats

Yes

ReleaseState

released

Publisher

Polymorphic Games

IsFreeApp

Yes

eulas

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id	572020_eula_0
name	Darwin's Demons EULA
url	http://store.steampowered.com//eula/572020_eula_0

Exclude from family sharing (exfgls)

3 (Free Game)

Store Release Date

13 February 2017 – 16:44:00 UTC ()

osarch

empty string

community_hub_visible

Yes

Primary Genre

Casual (4)

Store Genres

Action (1), Casual (4), Indie (23), Simulation (28)

Steam Release Date

13 February 2017 – 16:44:00 UTC ()

Store Asset Modification Time

26 November 2019 – 01:02:20 UTC () (1574730140)

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Is free on the store?

Yes

review_score

review_percentage

Detected Technologies (?)

Unity Engine

First seen on SteamDB

16 December 2016 – 21:02:59 UTC (), in changelist #2547526

Supported Languages

1 Languages	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	Yes	Yes

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

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timestamp	29 July 2020 – 18:15:01 UTC

Trailers

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Depots

ID	Configuration	Size	DL.
572023	Windows 32-bitDarwin's Demons Windows x86	884.04 MiB	245.40 MiB
572022	Windows 64-bitDarwin's Demons Windows x64	888.07 MiB	246.58 MiB
572024	macOS 32-bitDarwin's Demons Mac x86	894.75 MiB	248.52 MiB
572021	macOS 64-bitDarwins's Demons Mac x64	896.82 MiB	248.41 MiB
572025	Linux 32-bitDarwin's Demons Linux x86	890.01 MiB	246.08 MiB
572026	Linux 64-bitDarwin's Demons Linux x64	862.19 MiB	244.98 MiB
572027	macOS 64-bitDarwin's Demons Test OSX	No size
572028	Windows 64-bitDarwin's Demons Test Windows	No size
572029	Linux 64-bitDarwin's Demons Test Linux	No size

Total size on disk is 5.19 GiB and total download size is 1.45 GiB.

Total size on disk is 1.73 GiB and total download size is 491.99 MiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name	Description	Build ID	Time Updated
public		2769397	13 May 2018 – 03:58:43 UTC

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Name	Value
baselanguages	English
privatebranches	1

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